The Popes on Saint Joseph
As the Church universal is jubilantly celebrating the feast of St Joseph on this day, it would be so beautiful to draw from the...
Pope Benedict and Saint Cyril
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Our attention today is focused on St Cyril of Jerusalem....
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem: The Renewal of Catechetics
The saints during Lent - with few exceptions, such as Saint Joseph - are celebrated as muted 'commemorations', but that does not decrease their...
Saint Jan Sarkander, Martyr for Confession and the Faith
Jan Sarkander (1576 – 1620) was a Polish Catholic priest, tortured to death by Protestants over the course of a month at the beginning...
Saint Patrick and His Emerald Isle
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who...
Novena Prayers to Saint Joseph
March 10th - or 11th, if you want to end on the Solemnity itself - is the day to begin the novena to Saint...
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didn’t mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries – called...
Saint John Ogilvie, the Last Martyr of Scotland
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant 'reformation' was taking hold in Britain, including his native land of Scotland, led by...
Saint Frances of Rome – Finding Your Path Where You May Not Have Wanted
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages, how they responded in their own era - always with...
The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God
Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world....