You might not want to think about a return back to school or work now that summer is over, but it’s inevitable. For some of us, it’s the start of something new and exciting. For others, it’s a return to a place that isn’t always rainbows and sunshine. In fact, it can...
Dads are awesome and play a very important part in the upbringing of children, not to mention in their spiritual development, as well. Here are five fathers who became saints. 1. St. Joseph Duh, as if I wasn’t going to start with him! The definition of the...
A is for Pope St. Alexander I Feast day: May 3Roman by birth6th PopeProbably helped shaped the liturgyCredited with starting the use of blessing water mixed with salt for the purification of Christian homes from evil influencesAccording to tradition recorded in the...
There is a little-known blessed whose feast day just passed on August 2nd. His name is Blessed Ceferino Gimenez Malla. While he’s yet to achieve official sainthood status, there is a lot that can be learned from the first Gypsy who was considered a blessed – he was...
St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) was a Jewish convert to Catholicism, very well educated despite numerous obstacles, and who became a Carmelite nun. She died on August 9th in an Auschwitz gas chamber, along with her sister and many others. St. Pope...
