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EVEN THE CATS!

                       OUR  CAT ZARAH  WANTS  A TREAT!!

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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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