Lucy’s Light
It may be difficult to believe in these dark December days, but a scant week from now, the days, once we pass the winter...
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother and Mystery
December the 12 is the celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe, this year trumped by Gaudete Sunday, but a few words are in order,...
Pope Damasus: The Faith, the Bible and the Mass of All Time
We owe quite a lot to Pope Saint Damasus (305 - 384). He was the Pope who oversaw the universal Church during the tumultuous...
The Holy House of Loreto
Our Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar on this day by Pope Francis two year ago, in December, 2019, in...
Juan Diego, Hidden Keeper of the Tilma
Amare nesciri - 'love to be unknown' - exhorted Saint Philip Neri, who himself was an unknown teenager in Florence when, on a cold...
The Ten Blessings of the Immaculate Conception
If a blessing is God’s favour and protection, can there be an eminent example of such than the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of...
Pope John Paul II’s Last Sermon on the Immaculate Conception
HOLY MASS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY
OF THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II
Solemnity of...
Mary, Conceived Without Sin
Que soy era immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words with which Our Lady replied to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, in...
Oh, Where Might we Find Another Ambrose?
The great bishop and doctor Ambrose (340 - 397) is known for many things, not least his role in the conversion of the great...
Saint Nicholas’ Love for the Destitute and Needy
The story of St Nicholas goes back to the third century, to the 15th March 270, when he was born in the Patara village...