Christian Saints & Heroes
Heroic Faith: Ave Maria Radio's Al Kresta Celebrates 15 years after Miraculous Recovery
By • Catholic Online • 8/25/2012
Kresta said he did not feel sad. "The message came through clearly. "At that moment, I did not grieve for my lost leg, because in comparison to my life, it was not so important."He determined that he would use his time of suffering. "I did not want to forget why I was there. I wanted my personal ...
Saints and Heroes: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Reminds Us that 'Love Is Sufficient of Itself'
By • Catholic Online • 8/20/2012
"It is true that the creature loves less because she is less. But if she loves with her whole being, nothing is lacking where everything is given. To love so ardently then is to share the marriage bond; she cannot love so much and not be totally loved, and it is in the perfect union of two hearts ...
St. Maximilian Kolbe and the Theological Virtue of Hope
By • Catholic Online • 8/14/2012
"We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will. In every circumstance, each one of us should hope, with the grace of God, to persevere "to the end" and to obtain the joy of heaven, as God's eternal reward for the good works accomplished with the ...
Feast of St James: Learning to Drink from the Chalice of the Lord and the Great Christian Revolution
By • Catholic Online • 7/26/2012
Saint Jose Maria Escriva once wrote "The great Christian revolution has been to convert pain into fruitful suffering and to turn a bad thing into something good. We have deprived the devil of this weapon; and with it we can conquer eternity." James, like the Lord whom he served, indeed learned to ...
St Bridget of Sweden and the Pope Call Christian Married Couples to be the 'Sweet and Smiling Face of the Church'
By • Catholic Online • 7/23/2012
Bridget married Ulf and together, as a fruit of their love, they had eight children. In the hearth of the home she learned the way of selfless, kenotic love. Through the real nitty-gritty stuff of family life, including the tragic loss of a child, she became so configured her to Jesus Christ ...
Feast of St Thomas and the Year of Faith: Do Not Be Unbelieving But Believe
By • Catholic Online • 7/3/2012
Thank God for 'Doubting Thomas'. His doubts healed the wounds of our own disbelief. They also open up for all who look with the eyes of faith a deeper understanding of the redemptive effect of the wounds of Jesus - and the role our own wounds can have in our continuing call to conversion as we join ...
James Fulton: First Alleged Miracle Toward the Beatification of Venerable Fulton Sheen
By • Ignitum Today • 7/3/2012
One year ago today I delivered my son, a stillborn. For a moment he was placed in my arms quiet, blue, and limp. The midwife and her assistant then took him from me and began CPR. They could not find a pulse. He did not breathe. They stopped working on him so ...
The Pro-Life Message of John the Baptizer, the Prenatal Prophet
By • Catholic Online • 6/25/2012
The priest Zechariah's prophecy at the birth of John the Baptist is mystical . Our Lord said that he had no equal. But, in another way, what was said of John can be said of each of us. John was endowed with all his potential before he was born. There are no accidental babies and no throw away ...
Saints and Heroes of the Faith: Fr Dwight Longenecker On The Day I Met St Therese
By • Catholic Online • 5/20/2012
I was an Anglican priest the summer I met St Therese of Lisieux. I was living in England and had three months free between jobs, so I decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. I was going to hitch hike and stay in monasteries and religious houses on the way. GREENVILLE,SC (Catholic Online) - I was ...
Giuseppe Toniolo: A Possible Saint of Catholic Social Doctrine?
By • Catholic Online • 5/3/2012
Blessed Giuseppe Toniolo has the unusual accolade of being the first economist in the history of the Church to have received the honor of beatification. We might also call him the patron beatus of Catholic Social Doctrine. He may, in fact, one day become the patron saint of Catholic ...
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St. Romuald
St. Romuald was born at Ravenna about the year 956. In spite of an infinite desire for virtue and sanctity, his early life was wasted in the service of the world and its pleasures. Then one day, obliged by his father, Sergius, to be present at a duel fought by him, he beheld him slay his adversary. The crime made such an impression upon him that he determined to ... continue reading
St. Thomas More
St. Thomas More, Martyr (Patron of Lawyers) St. Thomas More was born at London in 1478. After a thorough grounding in religion and the classics, he entered Oxford to study law. Upon leaving the university he embarked on a legal career which took him to Parliament. In 1505, he married his beloved Jane Colt who bore him four children, andwhen she died at a young ... continue reading
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St. Elizabeth of Hungary
St. Elizabeth was born in Hungary in 1207, the daughter of Alexander II, King of Hungary. At the age of four she was sent for education to the court of the Landgrave of Thuringia, to whose infant son she was betrothed. As she grew in age, her piety also increased by leaps and bounds. In 1221, she married Louis of Thuringia and in spite of her position at court ... continue reading
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St. Gabriel, the Archangel
The name Gabriel means "man of God," or "God has shown himself mighty." It appears first in the prophesies of Daniel in the Old Testament. The angel announced to Daniel the prophecy of the seventy weeks. His name also occurs in the apocryphal book of Henoch. He was the angel who appeared to Zachariah to announce the birth of St. John the Baptizer. Finally, he ... continue reading
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While praying at Peter's tomb, she experienced the great weight of the Church fall on her shoulders, and she offered herself and her ... continue reading
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