This is the day the Church celebrates and honors the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, one of the principal feasts of our Blessed Mother. This feast is about the departure of Our Lady from her earthly life and the assumption of her body into heaven. In 1950, Pope Pius …
We encourage everyone to post your Daily Prayer Petitions in the Comments section below. Together we pray as one Catholic Family for our intentions and the intentions of the Pope. Let us also pray for the suffering souls in Purgatory. Let us praise God our almighty Father, who wished that …
First Reading – Revelation 11:19A; 12:1-6A; 10AB God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown …
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, born as Raymund Kolbe in 1894, was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who died a martyr during World War II. He is also known as the “Apostle of Consecration to Mary” given his profound veneration of the Blessed Mother inspired by a childhood vision of Our Lady. …
We encourage everyone to post your Daily Prayer Petitions in the Comments section below. Together we pray as one Catholic Family for our intentions and the intentions of the Pope. Let us also pray for the suffering souls in Purgatory. Let us praise God our almighty Father, who wished that …
First Reading – Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to death; he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city, and all the people, by speaking such things to them; he is not interested in the welfare …
Saint Hippolytus, one of our Church Fathers, was considered the most important theologian in Rome of the third century. He had several writings against the heresies which afflicted the Church at the time. The most popular of which was “Refutation of all Heresies.” His road to sainthood was rather unusual. …
We encourage everyone to post your Daily Prayer Petitions in the Comments section below. Together we pray as one Catholic Family for our intentions and the intentions of the Pope. Let us also pray for the suffering souls in Purgatory. Everyone who waits for the Lord finds joy. Now we …
First Reading – Ezekiel 18:1-10, 13B, 30-32 The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, what is the meaning of this proverb that you recite in the land of Israel: “Fathers have eaten green grapes, thus their children’s teeth are on edge”? As I live, says the …
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, born in Dijon, France in 1572, was the daughter of the president of the Parliament of Burgundy. When she was twenty, she married Christophe, Baron de Chantal and they had four children. Saint Jane Frances became a widow when Christophe was accidentally killed during hunting. …
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