Feast of St. Blaise—Invoking Against Diseases of the Throat A physician of Sebaste in Cappadocia, where he was later named Bishop, St. Blaise, was martyred about the year 320. He is venerated as a patron to protect us against diseases of the throat, mainly because of the story told that he cured a boy choking […]
The first striking characteristic of Andrew is his name: it is not Hebrew, as might have been expected, but Greek, indicative of a certain cultural openness in his family that cannot be ignored. We are in Galilee, where the Greek language and culture are quite present. Andrew comes second in the list of the Twelve, as in […]
It was almost midnight when Sister Laboure was awakened by someone calling her. At the foot of her bed, she saw a beautiful child beckoning her to follow; arriving at the chapel, she beheld Our Lady, who spoke to her for two hours. On November 27, while the community was assembled for prayer, Mary came […]
Albert the Great was a 13th-century German Dominican who decisively influenced the Church’s stance toward Aristotelian philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam. Students of philosophy know him as the master of Thomas Aquinas. Albert’s attempt to understand Aristotle’s writings established the climate in which Thomas Aquinas developed his synthesis of Greek wisdom […]
Didacus is living proof that God “chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.” As a young man in Spain, Didacus joined the Secular Franciscan Order and lived for some time as a hermit. After Didacus became a Franciscan brother, […]
Today, we celebrate the memorial of our guardian angels. Guardian angels are spiritual beings created by God to guard and guide us in our pilgrimage towards heaven. How great and noble the souls of man are that God provided a spiritual guardian to assist in his journey. Viewers: 138
Today, we celebrate the memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, priest and founder of the Vincentians and Daughters of Charity. Saint Vincent de Paul was born to a poor family. He was educated by the Franciscans and was ordained priest at 20. In 1605, while on a ship traveling from Marseilles to Narbonne, he was […]
Today, we celebrate the feast of Saint Bartholomew, apostle of the Lord. SAINT BARTHOLOMEW was one of the twelve called apostles by the Lord. Several learned interpreters of the Holy Scriptures take this apostle to have been the same as Nathaniel, a native of Cana, in Galilee, a doctor in Jewish law, and one of […]