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.
Have you ever fallen in love with a character in a book? Someone who you just know that if you met them in real life, you would be best friends and go on all kinds of crazy adventures?
That is Deanna Williston and St. Stanislaus Papczyński. the Founder of the Marians. We mark the anniversary of his death on Sept. 17.
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.
St. Louis IX (feast day: Aug. 25) is the only French king to be declared a saint, a model Christian monarch. With boundless energy and deep piety, he brought peace and prosperity to his kingdom, with a keen determination to administer justice at all levels of society, especially among the poor.
Eight days after the liturgical feast of the Assumption of Mary, the Church celebrates the Queenship of Mary (the octave day, Aug. 22). There is an integral connection between Mary’s Assumption and Queenship, writes Br. Eliot, MIC.
