Never Give Up

Images of June 2023 by JJStudios .

Today is the feast of the great Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church from the late second century. His response to the gnostic he...

“ Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets ” (Matthew 7:12). Here we have quite a succinct stat...

We Catholic Christians are called to live in communion, to regard one another as brothers and sisters. By His death and resurrection, Jesus ...

Some important anniversaries are approaching in the coming weeks and over the course of the Summer. I begin by saying “Happy 27th Wedding An...

Here’s a vlog from beautiful Virginia after 8:30 PM on a June evening. It’s nice to enjoy what still seems to be unusually cool air for thi...

Dear Dad, after four years I still miss you. May the Lord receive you into His glorious embrace. Help me to be strong and loving to my own f...

Mary, our Merciful Mother. Where would we be without her?  When all else is plunged into darkness, when life is confusing and overwhelming, ...

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble...

Buona Festa di Sant’Antonio di Padova! My Dad was Walter Anthony Janaro, as is my brother. Dad seemed more drawn to Anthony as his patron sa...

It has been seven years since Christina Grimmie was called home to God. It was a moment like so many other moments in the life of the 22-ye...

Jesus is really at work in our lives. We believe this in faith. We believe in His particular love for each one of us and for every person.  ...

“ Thus the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit testify that they are in no way disunited in power, even though they are distinguished in pe...

🕯 #NeverForgetTheTiananmenSquareMassacre In 1989, nearly all the vehicles on the streets of Beijing, China were still bicycles. But on June...

June 3rd commemorates the 22 Catholic martyrs of Uganda (Kingdom of Baganda, East Africa, 1886). They were canonized during the Second Vatic...

By the second century Saint Justin Martyr—whose feast is observed on June 1—had already taken up the exposition of the harmony between reaso...

. Sequence of Pentecost: . Come, Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home Shed a ray of light divine! Come, Father of the poor! Come,...

If we sacrifice the gifts that have been given to us—if we “give away” all we have and all we are, for the love of God—it can sometimes feel...

This is from a Facebook post on May 26, 2009. If you are as old as I am, you think “2009 … wow, that was fourteen YEARS ago?!” But, in fact,...

There were lots of what appeared to be thin clouds and haze on the horizon this evening. This is a photograph of THE SUN over the tree line ...