The Catholic Church celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on September 8, exactly nine months after the Solemnity of her Immaculate Conception. We know from recorded tradition of early Christians that Mary is the most blessed child of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. While details of Mary’s birth …
In the First Reading for this day, from the Old Testament, the Lord ordered the tradition of Jubilee that happened every 50 years. God laid out to Moses the rules for its observance so that their social order was maintained. It was to help restore social justice and balance in …
Back when you were a kid or an adolescent in school, or now as an adult in the workplace or neighborhood, you have probably experienced being despised, hated, or persecuted by people even though you didn’t do anything wrong to them, and you even did good things for them. Those …
Our Lady asked the three children to meet her once more at Cova da Iria on the 13th of July, 1917. That hot summer day arrived. Word about the mysterious appearance of the Holy Virgin was becoming widespread around Fatima that a crowd of about four thousand people came to …
First Reading – Zechariah 9:9-10 Thus says the LORD: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion, shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass. He shall banish the …
“Saint Anne, bring me a man as fast as you can!” This is a popular line among many Catholic women online who claim that they found their husbands right after praying the Novena to Saint Anne. I’ve always been aware of this one version that I’m posting. But only now …
We now recall the Second Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. On that 13th day of June, a hundred years ago, through the three visionary-children, namely, Lucia dos Santos, and siblings Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Our Lady conveyed important messages for all of us: 1. Pray the Rosary everyday. Mary …
The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is one of the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity. It is the central and greatest mystery of our Faith, which professes that in One God are Three Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God the Father is the Creator, …
This month is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is also the month that celebrates the Immaculate Heart of Mary. As their feast days are on this month, June is therefore considered as a month of love. God is love, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus manifests the …
We celebrated yesterday the Feast of the Visitation. Solely dedicated as the month of Mary, the Mother of God, May came to a conclusion. The final day of the month is the Second Joyful Mystery, the Visitation, wherein Mary, with Jesus in her womb, went to visit her cousin Saint …
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