In the Easter Season, which starts on Holy Saturday night and concludes with the seventh Sunday of Easter, Pentecost Sunday, the Regina Caeli is one of the four seasonal antiphons that can be chanted or recited to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is commonly done during...
You may be reading the title, asking yourself if I have lost it. “The Christmas donkey?” you may be asking. “What in the world is she talking about?” Well, we all know that the Blessed Virgin Mary was heavily pregnant when she and St. Joseph traveled to Bethlehem...
We are so very blessed to be able to go to the local Catholic or Christian store and pick up a copy of the Word of God. Unfortunately, not all of the generations were so lucky. The stories written in the Torah were only available in the Temple during Jesus’...
I admit, I’ve never heard of Bartolomé de las Casas and I probably never would have if I didn’t pick up this book. He was a 16th-century Spanish colonist who acted as a historian and social reformer before becoming a Dominican friar. He was appointed as...
There are so many saints with the name Teresa, or some variation of it, that it can be hard to keep them straight. There are, of course: St. Teresa of Avila, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and St. Teresa of Calcutta. But there are tons of others! Here are six other saints...
