Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
The Cheerful Ascetic A Redemptorist Missionary priest, Blessed Francis served in various places in the United States during the turbulent years of the Civil War....
A Vocation’s Unexpected Turns
Birth, Passion, Death Each year the Church gives us two feastdays of Saint John the Baptist: the first on June 24th to mark his nativity,...
Did anyone else notice this?
The Modification of a Collect A few days ago, on the feast of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, the holy Curé of Ars, I preached on the...
Festa di San Marcellino, Sacerdote e Martire
June 2nd is the feast of Saint Marcellino, priest and martyr, the very one named in the Roman Canon. San Marcellino fills Piedimonte d’Alife with...
Saint Paschal Baylon
Today was the commemoration of Saint Paschal Baylon, Franciscan laybrother, who died on Pentecost Sunday, 17 May 1592 as he had foretold. Illiterate, Paschal Baylon...