Powered by RedCircle Hello, slackers! Our saint for today, St. John Neumann, was the first U.S. bishop to be made a saint. If you were a child in one of the schools or churches of his day, you would most…
Powered by RedCircle Hello, slackers! Our saint for today, St. John Neumann, was the first U.S. bishop to be made a saint. If you were a child in one of the schools or churches of his day, you would most…
Powered by RedCircle When I was a kid, my dad won a beginner guitar in an auction. I played it for a while but had a hard time getting into it because my fingers hurt and I could never really…
Powered by RedCircle When the magi had departed, behold,the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,“Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt,and stay there until I tell you.Herod is going to search…
Powered by RedCircle Throughout His life and ministry, Jesus encountered people experiencing all manner of pain and suffering: parents who lost their children, men and women plagued by disease and infirmity, and people who were born poor and lived as…
Powered by RedCircle Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was born in Italy and travelled to the United States in 1889 to serve the Italian immigrants in America. Since the age of 8, Mother Frances Cabrini had dreams of becoming a missionary…
Powered by RedCircle The saint, St. John of the Cross, whom so many fear, was only a man who made room for God to come near. With God’s grace, he could see God at work, giving his heart a jerk…
Today, we honor Mary on The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Holy Day of Obligation. It’s a day celebrating the joy and gift the Blessed Mother is to humanity. It is also a date that I have always held…
St. Nicholas was a Greek bishop born during the 3rd century in modern-day Turkey, to wealthy parents. He died in Myra on Dec. 6th, 343. He is remembered as an example of generosity and faithfulness. After his parents died, he…
The humble missionary St. Francis Xavier once said of evangelizing others, “Speak to them of the great mercy of God… sometimes people are helped by your telling of your own lamentable past.” During my early college years, while home visiting…
If I asked you; who is the strongest person to ever live, you may respond with Hercules, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or perhaps the biblical Goliath. But as poor prideful Goliath found out from David, the shepherd boy who knocked him flat…
