Feast Day – February 26 If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria Bertilla Boscardin closer to God and more determined to serve him. Born in Italy in 1888, the young girl lived in fear of her father, a violent man prone to jealousy and drunkenness. […]
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Christmas 2022 Message
HO! HO! HO! At this time of the year, a very blessed time, I would like to send you all wishes for A Blessed Christmas and Grace-filled New Year. Every Christmas season, we celebrate Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. May all these four fill your life in every way this Christmas and beyond. We should […]
Saint of the Week – St. Charles Borromeo
Feast Day – November 4th St. Charles Borromeo lived during the time of the Protestant Reformation, and had a hand in the reform of the whole Church during the final years of the Council of Trent. He belonged to the Milanese nobility and was related to the powerful Medici family, but desired to devote himself […]
Saint of the Week – St. Anthony Mary Claret
Feast Day – October 24th Claretian archbishop and founder. Anthony was born in Salient in Catalonia, Spain, in 1807, the son of a weaver. He took up weaving but then studied for the priesthood, desiring to be a Jesuit. Ill health prevented his entering the Order, and he served as a secular priest. In 1849, […]
Saint of the Week – St. John de Brebeuf
Jesuit martyrs of North America. John was born in Normandy, France, on March 25, 1593. Joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1622. Three years later he volunteered for the missions in Quebec. Canada. For the next quarter of a century, with a brief interruption, he labored among the Huron Indians. His labors […]
Saint of the Week – Our Lady of Fatima
October 13 The Promised Miracle of the Sun The greatest miracle to occur since the Resurrection is also the only miracle ever precisely predicted as to date, time of day and location. While popularly known as “The Miracle of the Sun,” October 13, 1917 has come to be known as “The Day the Sun Danced,” […]
Saint of the Week – St. Faustina Kowalska
Feast Day – October 5th Sister Faustina was a young, uneducated nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland during the 1930s. She came from a poor family that struggled during the years of World War I. She had only three years of simple education, so hers […]
Saint of the Week – St. Vincent de Paul
Feast Day – September 27th Vincent was born in France in 1581 to a peasant family. He joined the seminary when he was 15yrs. old. When he was still a young priest, he was captured by Turkish pirates who sold him into slavery for two years he had to work hard for the master who […]
Saint of the Week – St. Thomas of Villanova
Feast Day – September 22nd Augustinian bishop. Born at Fuenllana, Castile, Spain, he was the son of a miller. He studied at the University of Alcala, earned a licentiate in theology, and became a professor there at the age of twenty-six. He declined the chair of philosophy at the university of Salamanca and instead entered […]
Saint of the Week – St. John Chrysostom
St. John, named Chrysostom (golden-mouthed) on account of his eloquence, came into the world of Christian parents, about the year 344, in the city of Antioch. His mother, at the age of 20, was a model of virtue. He studied rhetoric under Libanius, a pagan, the most famous orator of the age. In 374, he […]
