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...
View ArticleWIDOW-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...
View ArticleFRIEND 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...
View ArticleTWO 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...
View ArticleANGEL 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...
View ArticleBELOVED 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...
View Article1,000 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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