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  St. Jane Frances de Chantal was wife, mother, nun and founder of a religious community.   This 16 th Century saint had an amazing array o...

 Today’s scripture readings challenge us to ask ourselves, “What do I treasure?” “What do I value most?” “Do I treasure the things of this w...

  St. Jane Frances de Chantal was wife, mother, nun and founder of a religious community.  This 16th Century saint had an amazing array of l...

Have you ever been deeply brokenhearted and felt you couldn’t go on? Have you ever felt that life is just one series of miserable occurrence...

Yesterday, on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, the Church turned her heart to the Passion of Christ and the wood of the cross upon ...

 In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, congress passed a bill requesting that the President designate September 11 o...

 In 1731, a very holy nun, Sr. Maria Celeste, who has been recently beatified by Pope Francis, had a vision of our Lord with St. Francis on ...

  Until the beginning of February, the first readings on normal weekdays will be taken from the Letter to the Hebrews.  The Church does not ...

It can be argued, that Mary Magdalene is the second-most important woman in the New Testament. Throughout the four Gospels, she is named 14 ...

After many months, Lent, Easter, and the Feasts of Pentecost, Holy Trinity, and Corpus Christi, we have returned again to the Sundays of Ord...

We know well that on the night before he died, Our Lord gathered with his disciples in the upper room to celebrate the last supper and to ...

Yesterday, we heard from St. James that Christians must keep their faith throughout the inevitable trials of life. When we keep the faith wh...

Up until Ash Wednesday, our weekday readings will be taken from the Letter of St. James. As indicated by its opening verses, which we hear...

In the course of her decades of self-sacrificial service, Mother Theresa, St. Theresa of Calcutta, witnessed tremendous suffering. She enc...

“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...

In the Gospel of John, Jesus’ first miracle takes place at a wedding, the wedding at Cana, where water is turned into an abundance of wine...

Today we celebrate Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.  She was born—Edith Stein— the 11th child of a large family of orthodox jews in Ge...

When told they must worship an idol or be put to death, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, chose to remain faithful to the God of Abraham, Isa...

Yesterday, we were solemnly celebrating Christ’s Birth.  Today we commemorate the birth into Heaven of the first martyr of the Church, the...

Jesus explained to the Apostles that their experience of his absence will sometimes feel like the sufferings of childbirth. Now, none of...