The Annunciation and Saint Gabriel By Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira The following is a reflection on Saint Gabriel and the Annunciation. It comments on both the archangel and Our Lady since the feast of Saint Gabriel the Archangel is on the vigil of the Annunciation. We will comment on this passage taken from Saint Luke: …
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Five ways that Saint Joseph can help our crisis of masculinity
Five ways that Saint Joseph can help our crisis of masculinity By James Bascom The world is suffering from a terrible crisis of masculinity. Many young men go through life adrift, unsure of themselves and their role society. In the United States and the United Kingdom, fewer and fewer men are reaching the traditional milestones …
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Saint Katharine Drexel
Saint Katharine Drexel By Robert Ritchie Saint Katharine Drexel, the second American canonized saint, was born into a wealthy family in Philadelphia in 1858. Her father was an international banker and philanthropist accustomed to spending each evening in prayerful vigil. Although her mother passed away a few weeks after Katharine’s birth, her stepmother Emma Bouvier, …
What Is the Virtue of Faith and Why It’s Important
What Is the Virtue of Faith and Why It’s Important By Plinio Maria Solimeo Faith, along with hope and charity, form the three theological virtues. Each has God as its object. In his Theology of Christian Perfection, the renowned Spanish theologian Fr. Royo Marin explains that “the theological virtues are the most important virtues in …
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How a Good Lent Can Help Fix a Bad Economy
How a Good Lent Can Help Fix a Bad Economy By John Horvat II To those who see no link between Lent and our failing economy, it might be the case to look again. Economics is about people. It cannot be reduced to numbers, formulae and analyses. “The subject matter of economics,” observes economic historian …
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Lent: Historically and Practically
Lent: Historically and Practically By America Needs Fatima Original Article: Link Lent is a 40-day preparation for Easter, a period reminiscent of the 40 years the Israelites wondered in the desert, and of the 40 days Our Lord Jesus Christ prayed and fasted in the wilderness. On both accounts, and in view of the Lord’s …
Why Ash Wednesday? Why Ashes?
Why Ash Wednesday? Why Ashes? By Andrea F. Philips Original Article: Link What is Ash Wednesday? On Ash Wednesday Catholics proclaim their Faith in the public square as they go about marked with a black cross. Still, as praiseworthy as it is for Catholics to uphold the feast of Ash Wednesday by making a point …
A Short Struggle; An Everlasting Prize
A Short Struggle; An Everlasting Prize The Imitation of The Sacred Heart of Jesus Original Article: Link Let It Not Be Enough For Thee To Repulse Satan; Strive, Also, To Injure Him. 1. The Voice of Jesus My Child, hast thou fallen into sin? Do not again give thyself up to it; but so guard …
Never Withhold a Sin During Confession
Never Withhold a Sin During Confession Original Article: Link “Father, I should be in hell!” A fifteen-year-old boy in Turin, Italy was about to die. He called for Don Bosco, but the saint was not able to make it in time. Another priest heard the boy’s confession and the boy died. When Don Bosco returned …
Conversion of Saint Paul
Conversion of Saint Paul By America Needs Fatima Feast January 25 Saul, later Paul, was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin. Being born at Tarsus in Cilicia, he was by privilege a Roman Citizen. As a young man he studied the Law of Moses in Jerusalem under Gamaliel, a learned and noble Pharisee, and …