Never Give Up

Next year on December 1, we will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, whose life, witness, and continu...

"Be not afraid." Happy Feast Day of Saint John Paul II! Thirty seven years ago today, the world changed. What was give...

October begins with Saint Therese, who died of tuberculosis on September 30, 1897. She was only 24 years old. In her final days, several of...

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux died on August 20, 1153. That's 862 years ago if my arithmetic is correct. Yet he left a mark on Christian...

Martyr A blood-red ember-glow grows to a fullness within my breast as though Mars had been captured in glass, removed from the d...

A person should turn his full attention [to Christ], to this throne of mercy, and should gaze at Him hanging on the cross, ful...

Today is the Feast of Saint Norbert (1080-1134), who laid important foundations for the renewal of Christian life that blossomed in the Hi...

Icon of the martyrs at the Shrine In honor of the Uganda martyrs, I present here my post from last year and the links embedded herein. ...

"It is worthwhile to labor, because all those longings for justice, peace, and well-being that we experience on earth beco...

The Transitus of Saint Benedict , from a medieval monastic manuscript. Today is the old Roman calendar feast of Saint Benedict, as it i...

Tomorrow is a very special day for all my friends of Irish heritage, and for everybody else too. Saint Patrick's Day has come again. ...

March 3 is the feast day of Saint Katharine Drexel. She is, in fact, the only born citizen of the United States to be elevated to the ho...

I have loved Saint Agnes since I was in graduate school. I used to pray at her altar in the crypt of the National Basilica of the Immacu...

Martyrdom of Thomas Becket, December 29, 1170. Detail, window in Canterbury Cathedral. "They shall find the shepherd here; the f...

Pope Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461), feast day November 10 "In our nature, therefore, the Lord trembled with our fear, tha...

"May the world of our time, which is searching, sometimes with anguish, sometimes with hope, be enabled to receive the Good New...

And now I shall continue this rambling story, and you will find that it is not without interest. I grabbed this book off my shelf yesterda...

Icon photos for the two pope saints What can I possibly add to this astonishing, beautiful day? I just want to recount a few anecdotes o...

Yesterday was the great feast day of St. Agnes of Rome, a twelve year old girl of noble family at the beginning of the fourth century. She ...

The words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego (as presented in the  Nican Mopohua ): "Do know this, do be assured of ...