Daily Mass should be the bedrock of our spiritual life, to the extent we are able to assist at the Holy Sacrifice. The Church does not require daily assistance at Mass of us: we are obligated on Sundays and holy days of obligation, unless we are dispensed. Yet the Church’s saints and doctors have always recommended daily assistance, and they advise us to attend with a missal in hand. Why?
Please join us for a very special 54-Day Miracle Novena from August 15th through October 7th, 2020. We will be praying for God’s peace and blessings surrounding the coming election.
Walk in the footsteps of the holy Capuchin at the St. Felix Catholic Center in In Huntington, Indiana. In Huntington, Indiana, on 30 superbly landscaped acres, one can walk in the footsteps of Blessed Solanus Casey. This is where Solanus …
I walked into Rachel’s Vineyard not knowing what I was carrying inside. The agony of my abortions had been repressed for so long and to such a degree, that I wasn’t at all aware of my great need for healing.
Souls that thrive in times like these are deeply rooted in prayer. They spend part of every day in personal prayer and adoration. Perhaps they have access to an open church; perhaps they pray from home. But pray they do.
In his great Epistle on justification, Saint Paul presents the Holy Spirit as the hero of the Christian life, whose full power has been unleashed by Jesus’ death and resurrection! The overarching theme of Paul’s letter to the Romans (chapters 1-8) is POWER leading to LIFE.
The Coronavirus is not the first epidemic to strike the world. Yet as churches are closed and the sacraments are difficult to find, the question arises: How did the Church and the saints deal with plagues in the past? In …
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Many years ago I was with a Protestant friend who casually mentioned he had just met a priest from Africa studying at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He asked the priest what he was studying and the …
Saint Joseph is most powerful against the demons which fight against us. — St. Alphonsus Liguori Saint Joseph the Worker Like all Christians at that time, I too was happy and grateful at the Church’s decision to declare a liturgical …
Garabandal points to future events based upon previous events that are complimentary to other issues in the Catholic faith, as well events that are in the Old Testament. If one understands that the Blessed Mother, and the Host of Heaven, has a plan for the salvation of all mankind, then Garabandal makes even more sense.