Pope Francis has decreed that the feast of Our Lady of Loreto be included in the Roman Calendar as an optional memorial to be celebrated on December 10. “This celebration will help all people, especially …
Some of the Bible Quotations about Fasting; EXO 24:18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. 34:28 Moses was …
Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity, is almsgiving. It is evident, then, that almsgiving implies much more than the transmission of some temporal commodity to the indigent. According to the creed of political economy, every material deed wrought by man to …
Bible Quotations on Obedience GEN 6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 22 Noah did everything just as God …
Padre Pio is the Catholic priest who bore on his body the five bleeding wounds of Christ for 50 years, from 1918 until his death in 1968. He was deeply devoted to Our Lady of …
“Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, ’Take, eat; this is my body.’ And he took a cup, and when he had given …
Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, F.C.C., (19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946) was a Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister who is now honored as a saint, the first person of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church and the …
THOMAS THE APOSTLE, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus (meaning “Twin”) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known for questioning Jesus’ resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming “My Lord and my God” on seeing Jesus in . …
The priest who saw no need for a bed St Joseph Oriol (March 23) sought obscurity and self-abnegation but ended up being celebrated throughout Barcelona A statue of St Joseph, who lived on bread, water …
