2026 Anniversaries
As we did last year, we once again offer you some significant dates related to saints and holy persons. This post follows upon a two...
The Spirit with which Saint Charles Borromeo Was Filled
Today we celebrate Saint Charles Borromeo, a great Saint for his times. The Lord filled him with a mighty spirit, a spirit that we should...
Padre Pio, the Eucharist, and Reparation for Priests
Padre Pio Denied Communion When Fra Pio was yet a novice, his Master of Novices was a man named Padre Tommaso. Padre Tommaso’s reputation is...
An ‘Octave’ and a Chaplet of the Cross
An ‘Octave’ of the Cross 14 September Following on our previous post, today, the feast of the Apostle Saint Matthew, brings to a close a...
Dies Natalis of Blessed Anne of Jesus
Blessed Anne of Jesus and Mother Mectilde On the fourth of March, 1621, Blessed Anne of Jesus, the hand-picked disciple of St Teresa through whom...
The Cross at the Threshold of the Year
The cross has become something more than a historical memory; it does convey, almost as by a mathematical diagram, the truth about the real point...
Padre Pio Priest and Victim
Monsignor Arthur Calkins (1945-2024), Marian scholar par excellence and a dear friend of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle passed away unexpectedly earlier this...
Salus Populi Ego Sum
Saints Cosmas and Damian The Roman stational church of today’s Mass is the Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Who were Cosmas and Damian? Tradition has...
The Festivals of Saints (XIV)
Abbey of Emmaus, Prague CHAPTER XIV. How the Night-Office is to be said on Saints’ Days 17 Feb. 18 June. 18 Oct. On the Festivals...
Festinate, for Crist luve
The Cross: A Way of Life Saint Aelred, the English 12th century abbot of Rievaulx, has long been a dear friend. “Our order”, he wrote,...
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton: A Eucharistic Saint
January 4 Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Widow and Religious William Magee Seton gave this lithograph of Christ the Redeemer to his beloved wife, Elizabeth Ann...
Dies Natalis of Father Lukas Etlin, O.S.B.
A Friend in Heaven December 16th, is the dies natalis (heavenly birthday) of the Servant of God, Father Lukas Etlin, O.S.B., a monk of Conception...
Through the tangle of thorns
She had a vision of a young man who, in order to guide her through the tangle of thorns that surrounded her soul, took her...
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity: Her Mission in Heaven
Saint Elizabeth in the Catechism Opening the Catechism of the Catholic Church one morning, I discovered that among the ecclesiastical writers cited in the text,...
Beata Clelia Merloni
Camera ove morì Beata Clelia il 21 novembre 1930 Una Beata che Darà Speranza La Messa di Beatificazione di Madre Clelia Merloni (1861-1930, fondatrice delle Apostole...
Blessed Clelia Merloni
A Blessed Who Gives Hope Mother Clelia Merloni (1861–1930), foundress of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will be beatified today, November 3rd,...
Soon to be Blessed: Mother Clelia Merloni
A Blessed Who Will Give Hope I was delighted recently to receive an invitation to the beatification of Mother Clelia Merloni (1861–1930), foundress of the...
An Irish Bishop Who Died in Italy
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy We kept today the commemoration of Blessed Thaddeus Machar (McCarthy). When we first began following the Irish Sanctoral, and I had to...
The Festivals of Saints (XIV)
CHAPTER XIV. How the Night-Office is to be said on Saints’ Days 17 Feb. 18 June. 18 Oct. On the Festivals of Saints, and all...
Behold this Heart
The Mystical Invasion Saint Teresa of Jesus died in 1582. Thirty-two years later, on 31 December 1614, Catherine Mectilde de Bar was born at Saint–Dié...