Where Our Lady goes, there God triumphs. Where her name (feast day: Sept. 12) is pronounced with love and trust, there the Body of Christ wins the victory.
As we mark 23 years since the tragedies of September 11, 2001, and pray for the lives lost and the loved ones left behind, let us trust in Jesus and recommit ourselves to overcoming evil with good.
Saint Peter Claver (feast day: Sept. 9) is one of those humbling saints who does in an extraordinary way what all Christians should be doing: find the most despised, neglected, abused population of his day and give them all the love he can, according to the duties of his state in life.
Why does God ask us to pray? Chris Sparks suggests that we Christians make the mistake of focusing on Christ’s promises of prayer’s power, and not spending nearly enough time on His parables that make clear just how persistent, how abiding, and how zealous He is asking for our prayer to be.
In his tribute to St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) on her feast day, Sept. 5, Pope St. John Paul II described the key to her mission and inspiration.
“For God to be able to pour his grace in profusion into the soul of a person, he has to find Jesus living in them.” So declared Blessed Dina Bélanger (feast day, Sept. 4), a Canadian nun and mystic.
The first monk to be elected Pope in the Catholic Church was the renowned “Physician of Souls,” St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church, whose feast we observe on Sept. 3.
Monday, Sept. 2, is Labor Day, a secular holiday, to be sure, but also a day when every Catholic should remember and honor the first among the saints, second only to the Blessed Virgin Mary and God Himself: St. Joseph.
This is a special week for the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception: Friday, Aug. 30 is the birthday of the late, great Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC (1930-2021). Without Fr. Seraphim, there may well be no St. Faustina.
One of the world’s best-known sinners turned saint is St. Augustine of Hippo, whose feast we celebrate on Aug. 28. Famously, his mother, St. Monica, prayed for him for 17 years before his conversion, and his is the famous prayer, “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!”
The patient, persevering prayer of St. Monica (feast day: Aug. 27) made all the difference. It will affect the Church and the world until the end of the world.
Theresa Bonopartis helped develop a ministry for women healing from abortion called "Entering Canaan." Learn about the inexplicable details that led her to call Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the Black Madonna (feast day: Aug. 26), the patroness of her ministry.
