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JESUS IN ECUADOR
This Sunday (Sept. 8 to Sept. 15), the 53rd INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS will gather thousands of faithful from around the world in Quito, Ecuador, to celebrate the Eucharistic presence of...
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE- A SAINT!
St. Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei, felt for most people life was chiefly about making ordinary everyday life something extraordinary. “God doesn’t pull you out of your environment, He...
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MISSIONARY IN SUFFERING
One example of a not so ordinary man, is the newly beatified JAN HAVLIK, a seminarian of the Congregation of the Mission. During the Angelus on September 1, Pope Francis called for a round of...
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MOTHER OF OUR SORROWS
Today should be the feast of OUR LADY OF SORROWS but being Sunday, it is passed by this year. That does not mean we should not pray to our Mother who is aware of the sorrows in our own hearts....
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NOT AN ORDINARY MAN
An example of an “ordinary” man, whose love of Christ was so great, he was willing to battle against the evils of his day.BL. BENEDICT DASWA(his full name was Samuel Tshimangadzo, meaning miracle or...
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A PRINCELY MAN
BL. LADUSLAUS BATTHYANY-STRATTMANN was born in 1870 in Dunakiliti, Hungary, into an ancient noble family. He was the sixth of 10 brothers. In 1876 the family moved to Austria. When Ladislaus was 12...
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SAINTS OF MEXICO
. VENERABLE FELIX de JESUS ROUGIER was born in Meilhaud, France, in 1859. After completing his primary studies, Felix entered the school-seminary of Le Puy. At age 18, during a talk on the missions...
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A CATHOLIC QUEEN DOWNUNDER
I always said that if and when I visited Australia, I would also hit New Zealand. What I did not know, till I got to Australia, is NZ is as far away from Australia as California is from New York....
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PIANIST FOR UKRAINE
Another Ukrainian musician who has caught my attention lives in the USA. While I can’t say her music is my favorite, being very modern, I am impressed by her work and dedication to her country. Being...
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'LONG BEARD" FUTURE SAINT OF MINNESOTA?
In 1971, Sisters Bernard Coleman and Verona La Bud from St. Scholastica's Benedictine Abbey in Duluth, published a comprehensive 368-page biography of the missionary titled Masinaigans, meaning...
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A HOLY MAN FROM BROOKLYN
SERVANT OF GOD FATHER BERNARD J. QUINN,was born in 1888 in Newark, New Jersey, to Irish immigrant parents, one of seven children. The father, (also Bernard) supported his family as a longshoreman....
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A REMINDER
“Mother of Christ, help me to be willing to accept the suffering that is the condition of love. Help me accept the grief of seeing those whom I love suffer, and when they die let me share in their...
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HEART OF JESUS
Tomorrow, October 24, Pope Francis will release his fourth encyclical.“DILEXIT NOS” - Encyclical Letter on the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ,” centers around the SACRED HEART of...
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NUNS TO THE STARS
It never ceases to amaze me how many women of the past were great contributors to science, the arts and other fields, but only now are receiving recognition. Of late we find four nuns who were...
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SEATTLE'S HOLY PRINCESS
A local native being considered for sainthood is PRINCESS ANGELINE (Kikisoblu, Kick-is-om-lo). She was born around 1820 to Chief Seattle and his first wife (a Catholic) in what is now Rainier Beach in...
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UNITY IN UKRAINE
As we near the third year of the invasion of Ukraine, with seemingly no end in sight for the poor people of this country, and the many who have had to flee to other nations, I find a lesser- known...
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BLESSED ARE THE SAINTS
“For the Saints are sent to us by God as so many sermons. We do not use them, it is they who move us and lead us, to where we had not expected to go.” Charles Cardinal Journet (1891-1975) ALL SAINTS...
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WIDOW-NUN
They say we are known by the company we keep. The next two Blogs show us once again, how saints influenced one another in the same time frame. Unlike so many of our modern-day “heroes” whom we admire...
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FRIEND TO SAINTS, POPES AND THE POOR
In the previous Blog, we mentioned ST. LUIGI ORIONE, who was instrumental in Bl. Teresa Grillo Michel’s work in South America.St Luigi was born in Piedmont, Northern Italy, at Pontecurone, a village...
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TWO TO INSPIRE US
The main theme of this Blog is sanctity- that of others, as well as our own. How you may ask can we ever hope to be like someone who reached perfection in this life? We tend to forget that they were...
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ANGEL OF MERCY
BL. MALGORZATA LUCJA (Margaret Lucy) SZEWCZYK was born in 1828 in Szeptówka in Volyn, Ukraine (now Poland) to a noble family. Orphaned at an early age, she was cared for by her half-sister. In...
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BELOVED YOUTH- NEW SAINTS
Pope Francis announced today that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two of our favorite young Catholics beloved for their vibrant faith and witness to holiness, will be canonized...
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1,000 DAYS OF WAR
Tuesday, the Holy Father Pope Francis wrote a letter to Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, the apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, marking the 1,000th day since the Russian invasion. “I am well aware that no...
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