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  Last week, on the Feast of Pope St. Sixtus, we recalled how in the mid-3 rd century, the Roman Emperor Valerian issued the cold imperial ...

 Earlier in the week, we considered how the prophet Amos was sent by God to the northern kingdom, particularly those with economic, social, ...

  In the Gospel of Matthew, the Lord Jesus speaks about the privilege of discipleship, the privilege of being a Christian, rather than being...

 St. Vincent writes, “It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible…D...

The beatitudes Jesus teaches, the way to attain holiness on earth that leads to beatitude in heaven, are a pretty strange set of teachings a...

 From time to time, you come across a critic of the Church who claims that the grandeur of our church buildings, our precious vessels and ve...

 Born in 1582, St. Vincent was the son of a poor, but pious farmer in southwestern France. Vincent displayed great intellectual gifts from a...

In my bulletin column this weekend, I spend a few paragraphs on the life, spirituality, and lessons of the great Saint of the Poor, St. Vi...

“His heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd”. St Matthew gives us a glimp...

Today’s saint was a deacon of the Church of Rome in the mid 3rd century.  It’s hard to imagine the situation of the Church in Rome during th...

I mentioned yesterday that the second week of Advent is traditionally associated with love, with charity. Today’s saint is certainly know...

St. Vincent was the son of a poor, but pious farmer in southwestern France in 1581. Even though it meant a great sacrifice for his family...