Saint Anthony of Padua’s Enduring Popularity
On Sunday 13 2021 the universal Church, and particularly, the Franciscan Order, celebrate with great joy the feast of St Anthony of Padua. In the...
Pope Benedict and Teresa of Avila
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Saint Teresa of Avila
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the course of the Catecheses that I have chosen...
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HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER
MASS IN ST PETER'S SQUARE FOR THE CANONIZATION
OF SR MARY FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
Sunday, 30 April 2000
1. "Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in...
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This last day of August is the liturgical feast of a great German saint, Saint Paulinus of Trier. Trier, previously known Trèves and Triers,...
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St. John de Matha, the Forgotten Friar
Every year on December 17 the church intones the ‘O antiphons’ the joyous canticles in anticipation of the coming of Christ. But on the...
Alicja Lenczewska: Life of a Sinner and Mystic
Of three remarkable women, all Polish and devout Catholics, the most renowned mystic among them is undoubtedly Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose diary is deemed...
John Paul II’s Slavorum Apostoli
JOHN PAUL II
SLAVORUM APOSTOLI
I. INTRODUCTION
1. THE APOSTLES OF THE SLAVS, Saints Cyril and Methodius, are remembered by the Church together with the great work...
I am the Immaculate Conception
Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, in her own...
