Category: Saints

Soon-to-be-Saint Jeanne Jugan

Today is the feast of Blessed (and soon to be Saint) Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879), foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Blessed Jeanne Jugan,...

Pax tecum, Filumena

Connecticut and Ireland I am writing, dear readers, from Hamden, Connecticut where I am spending a few days with my parents before leaving for Ireland...

Doctor Zelantissimus

Siamo Napoletani Given that grace builds on nature, my Neapolitan ancestry may, in some way, account for my spiritual affinity with Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori....

Saint James, Apostle

General Intercessions That the Holy Catholic Church, founded on the faith of the apostles, may hold fast to the knowledge of the glory of God...