Christian Saints & Heroes
Vocation to Love. Memorial of Saint Theresa of The Child Jesus, Virgin
By • Catholic Online • 10/1/2010
The Little Flower of Jesus sacrificed her life for love of souls. She saw the magnitude of her Beloved's love for them. She offered herself for the building up of the Church, the People of God and the Mystical Body of Christ. That is truly a vocation of love, a love which is ...
Saint Jerome: Priest and Doctor, Father of Biblical Science, Teacher of Obedience
By • Catholic Online • 9/30/2010
St. Jerome is one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Church and is perhaps best known for his translation of the Hebrew books of the Bible into Latin, termed as the Vulgate. He teaches us the wisdom of obedience to the Church's magisterial authority, and, certainly, to the supreme ...
Clare of Assisi as Model: Pope Calls for Women of Courage to Renew the Church
Vatican Information Service • 9/16/2010
In her convent of San Damiano, Clare heroically practiced the virtues that should characterize all Christians: humility, a spirit of piety and penance, and charity. Her fame of sanctity and the prodigies that came about thanks to her intervention led Pope Alexander IV to canonize her in 1255, ...
Saint Bonaventure: Bishop, Doctor, Apostle of Truth
By • Catholic Online • 7/15/2010
Certainly a soul can be very close to our Lord Jesus Christ without constantly directing its attention toward understanding dogma or doctrine or even common Church teaching. But is it to a soul's advantage to ignore these things? Put another way, can we say we love God to the fullest extent ...
Corpus Christi: Pope Benedict Commends St. Thomas Aquinas, Faith and Reason
Catholic Online • 6/3/2010
'St. Thomas has a profoundly Eucharistic soul. The beautiful hymns that the liturgy of the Church sings to celebrate the mystery of the real presence of the Body and Blood of the Lord in the Eucharist are due to his faith and theological wisdom....Thomas' personal humility but also the fact ...
Mother Pierina of the Holy Face of Christ to Be Beatified
By • Zenit News Agency • 5/29/2010
Mother Pierina (1890-1945), a mystic, dedicated her life to spreading devotion to the face of Christ and, at the same time, to the fight against Satan. This was discovered in her personal diary, found by the sisters in the cell of the convent after her death. ROME (Zenit.org) - This Sunday the ...
Why Are There So Many Names and Titles For Mary?
By • Catholic Online • 5/28/2010
Imagine holding a diamond and rotating it between your fingers so you can examine its overall shape, its facets and its brilliant display of light... Being full of grace, we can say that Mary radiates brilliance like a diamond. And while only a rough comparison, we can also compare her names to the ...
Mary, Our Mother and the Ark of the New Covenant
By • Catholic Online • 5/9/2010
She offered herself, completely, with all the love of which a mother is capable, for a Child, whom she offers to all of us.In this most holy way, her sorrows are joined to those of the Redeemer whom she bore for the whole world. They together now share in a mystery of love forged from the secret ...
Inspire: My First Ordinary Heroes, My Parents
By • Catholic Online • 5/3/2010
The first Ordinary Heroes of my life were my parents Al and Kay Brandon. Though they have each gone to their eternal rest, the lessons that they taught me and my sister have grown in importance as my walk of faith becomes deeper day by day. TUCSON, AZ (Catholic Online) - One definition of a ...
Inspire: Who Are Ordinary Heroes?
By • Catholic Online • 5/3/2010
That well known fictional American philosopher Pollyanna said: "If you search for the good in people, you will surely find it." If you do, you will encounter Jesus in the flesh; but if you really look hard, you might find an Ordinary Hero, whose example can be a lamp on your own path of ...
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St. John Baptist Rossi
This holy priest was born in 1698 at the village of Voltaggio in the diocese of Genoa and was one of the four children of an excellent and highly respected couple. When he ws ten a nobleman and his wifre who were spending the summer at Voltaggio obtained permission from his parents to take him back with them to Genoa to be trained in their house. He remained ... continue reading
St. Francis de Sales
Born in France in 1567, Francis was a patient man. He knew for thirteen years that he had a vocation to the priesthood before he mentioned it to his family. When his father said that he wanted Francis to be a soldier and sent him to Paris to study, Francis said nothing. Then when he went to Padua to get a doctorate in law, he still kept quiet, but he studied ... continue reading
St. Isabel of France
Sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, she refused offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God. She ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her mother, founded the Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Longchamps ... continue reading
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St. Michael, the Archangel
St. Michael, the Archangel - Feast day - September 29th The name Michael signifies "Who is like to God?" and was the warcry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against satan and his followers. Holy Scripture describes St. Michael as "one of the chief princes," and leader of the forces of heaven in their triumph over the powers of hell. He has been ... continue reading
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St. Catherine of Sienna Calls Each One of Us to Love God Right Where We Are
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
The Vision of St. John Bosco and the Papacy of Benedict XVI
Does the heroic leadership of Pope Benedict XVI represent one more fulfillment of the prophetic vision of the Saint whose Feast we ... continue reading
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