\"Magis mori quam peccare — to die rather than to sin.\" This Christian maxim inspired the martyrs of Uganda—canonized in 1964. These martyrs had been prepared for the supreme sacrifice of martyrdom f...
Why is it that we do not seem to make progress in our Spiritual life, despite so many good resolutions? St. Alphonsus Ligouri says that it is because we do not work on love of Jesus Christ. Other vi...
St. Peter Julian Eymard lived in the nineteenth century in France and was the founder of the Father of the Blessed Sacrament. He had many apostolates for spreading devotion to the Holy Eucharist. Hi...
St. Bernadette became a unsuspecting counter revolutionary that no one could move or get past… not hell, nor the freemasonic communistic journalists, scientists, psychologists, occultists… nor the gov...
In a period of history where noble-men lounged around, some heroes left a comfortable European life to manfully embrace the Cross of Christ in foreign lands. These lands were filled with hardship and...
Temptation is a lifelong struggle, yet at times, the saints were able to respond to temptation as if it were but white noise. Consider St. Theresa who laughed at the appearance of a devil, or Our Lord...
St. Juan Diego was a noble Aztec warrior who converted to Catholicism with his first wife, Maria Lucia. After the death of his wife, Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego in a series of apparitions in whic...
Our Lord asked that France be consecrated to the Sacred Heart. If this had been done, the French Revolution would surely have been abated. In Quito, Ecuador, however, another political leader consec...
A life on the battlefield merged with the spiritual life; St.Nuno of St. Mary, the knight of Our Lady, shows us what tough guys really look like!
Alphonse tells us concerning his conversion: “I had come out of a dark pit, out of a tomb… and I was alive, completely alive… I thought of my brother Theodore with inexpressible joy. But how I wept as...
Could peacetime also produce saints? Could the garden of the Lord grow other flowers besides the red roses of martyrs? Could that same garden of the Church produce and include other flowers including...
St. Peter of Alcantara established a reform of the Franciscan Order in the Sixteenth Century. He also directed St. Teresa of Avila as she reformed the Carmelites. It is from her we know about his pe...
Bd. Eugénie Marie-Joseph Smet … born on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 1825, in Lille, France, into a pious Catholic Family. Early on, the workings of grace made itself felt in her soul, and...
Blessed Justo Takayama Ukon: the samurai who followed Christ his Lord, during the violent sengoko period of Japan's history. Blessed Justo was considered by Jesuit missionaries as the most influentia...
The beautiful title of “The Angel Saints” has been given to a triad of magnificent souls of shining purity who reached the heights of sanctity in service to the Society of Jesus: St. Aloysius, St. Sta...
St. Louis de Montfort composed the following hymn: “Three crosses stand on Calvary’s heigh One must be chosen so choose aright; Like a saint you must suffer, or a penitent thief, Or like a reprobate i...
St. Eugene de Mazenod was one of the many men called by God to restore faith in men's hearts after the French Revolution. He established a new missionary community, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. T...
Dom Prosper Guarenger says that charity will grow cold in the end times because there will be a lack of true wisdom. Wisdom is the gift which allows us to discern things from the light of divine prin...
God has His eye on France. He saved the first French Monarch Clovis (his queen being St. Clotilde) from a disaster at war, when this pagan king finally called upon His Maker for help and received a sp...
A preacher's preacher, St. Lawrence of Brindisi was a stalwart Capuchin missionary. He was an intellectual, gifted with a legendary grasp of Sacred Scripture etched in his mind- and heart- who knew t...
A principle, tried, tested, and true from the very beginning, is that without Mary, there is sterility, but with Mary there is fecundity. It pleased God to demonstrate this through his servant, Blesse...
St. Therese of Lisieux greatly suffered from scrupulosity\r\nduring her younger years. Her trials were exacerbated by the death of\r\nher Mother and the entrance of her older sister into Carmel. How...
Many today know all about the academic life and talent of St. Thomas Aquinas, but few are aware of his many virtues and the stories that demonstrate them. While he wrote and dictated much, taught the...
Interest in her greatly increased after the French Revolution. Why? Because Joan mysteriously embodied the solution to the problems at hand. The Church had just been suppressed in France and it was sp...
Born into a noble Genovese family, young Catherine was not satisfied with her life of privilege. As a youth, she had a desire for prayer and offering penances for love of God. Being told by a convent...
Father Faber once wrote, “All worship breaks down, if it is not based on the feelings due from a creature to his Creator.” We can then say, if a man loves God wrongly, he will become stunted in his sp...
Fr. Fredrick Faber, the great Oratorian priest said that there would be more devotion to Mary if there were more blind confidence in her intercession. The saints were given to us by God as models for...
True greatness dwells in the soul and often evades the eye. Many times it is hidden under an insignificant exterior and the drudgery of a lowly life. This certainly holds true of the humble Capuchin...
St. Bernard of Clairvaux was the founder of the Cistercian reform. He convinced so many men to join religious life with him that he entered in a group of thirty, including his brothers. When abbot o...
In February, we examined the life of Antonio Ghisleri- the future Pope Pius V. From his youth as a shepherd tending to flocks, entering religious life with the Dominicans, working as an inquisitor, a...
Many today have heard of the learned St. Jerome who waged war against the enemies of the faith. But few have heard of the many virtues of the same Saint. Upon a closer examination of his life, we will...
What if the prodigal child had a Mother at home? What if the young man\r\nwho squandered his Father’s inheritance had a Mother to win his hard\r\nheart over? We all know the story from the fifteenth C...
This saint was God’s answer to the rationalism, modernism, fascism and communism of the last two Centuries and ours. In the latter half of the 19th Century, Italy experienced a period of sharp anti-cl...
The whole life of Pius the Fifth was a combat." Thus writes, Dom Gueranger of this great saint. Growing up as a shepherd and tending flocks as a young boy, he sought to consecrate his life to Christ...
In 17th Century France, when hardly a devout priest could be found, St. Vincent de Paul would state \"The Church has no worse enemies than her priests.\" God would raise up a worldly cleric whose only...
St. Edmund Campion was a promising young scholar who had a comfortable life ahead of him in the academic world. His wit, intellect, and eloquence made him a popular figure at Oxford, garnering the att...
11. James Kern was beatified on June 21, 1998. During the ceremony the Holy Father said, “Blessed James stands before us as a witness of fidelity to the priesthood. At the beginning, it was a childh...
John, the son of Zebedee, was called to be one of the Apostles closest to Christ, seemingly the very closest. Due to his virginal purity, this beloved of Christ was chosen to convey to the Catholic C...
St. Edmund Campion was a promising young scholar who had a comfortable life ahead of him in the academic world. His wit, intellect, and eloquence made him a popular figure at Oxford, garnering the att...
Beginning with the death of St. Stephen, countless martyrs gave their lives as a worthy sacrifice to Almighty God. And to the confusion of the Romans, their blood never ran out. In 313, by their oblat...
Men are born to fight. Men are generals, soldiers,\r\nlawyers, rulers, admirals, police. We were born to struggle. We were\r\nborn to overcome. We were born to practice fortitude. We were born to\r\nf...
Dom Prosper Gueranger’s “The Liturgical Year” for today’s saint, the 17th Century martyr, Josaphat (keep in mind that this was written in the mid 1800’s long before Our Lady of Fatima’s request for th...
St. Charles Borromeo was born on October 2, 1538. He was tonsured at twelve years of age, and when his uncle was elected Pope, Pius IV, he was called to Rome to oversee the Papal States in the name o...
St. John Cross: “In detachment, the spirit finds quiet and repose for coveting nothing. Nothing wearies it by elation, and nothing oppresses it by dejection, because it stands in the center of its own...
St. Louis IX, King of France embodied the qualities of a just ruler who was highly intelligent and immensely virtuous. He was a heroic king, a fierce warrior, but above all, a saint. As he is the on...
Whether it be a person, a thing, or even one's own self love, all men fasten their hearts upon some master whereby all their actions are directed. Instead of being a slave of his passions, St. Louis d...
In her last agony, St. Therese of Lisieux had several pictures of her favorite saints put by her bedside. By her was a lovely picture of the Virgin Mary, a small image of St. Joseph, and an image of t...
In the shield of Carmel, we read the motto, “With Zeal I am Zealous for the Lord, God of hosts.” Bd. Francis Palau was clearly very zealous counter-revolutionary. St. Thomas Aquinas defines zeal as on...
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in 1647 in France. She made a vow of chastity as a child, and showed a heroic degree of penance even at a young age. When seventeen, she fell into a period of tep...
St. Thomas gives us an important principle: what is first in any order is the cause of all that follows it. Ever wonder why St. Michael is the given the title ARCH-Angel? Because he is the first in th...
St. Benedict Joseph Labre, pray for us!
St. Vincent de Paul, pray for us
St. Augustine, Doctor of Grace, pray for us!
St. Gabriel Possenti pray for us
St. John Bosco pray for us!
St. Francis pray for us!
Just as the moderns are all in rebellion against the perennial philosophy so well expressed by St. Thomas Aquinas, so too is the very same Saint and his teachings the antidote to all modern errors...
The story of St. Maria Goretti and Alessandro Serenelli is in a way, the story of two fathers. One who neglected his duties toward his children and the other who did not, even after death. When Alessa...