A Pilgrim's Journey

Andrew, like his brother Simon Peter, was a fisherman. He became a disciple of the great St. John the Baptist, but when John pointed to Jesu...

Just inside the main doors of the church in the narthex is a simple marble holy water font. On a typical day during the year, hundreds of th...

The Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe, was dragged before a minor earthly ruler, Pilate, and was asked the question, “Are you a ki...

The account of the life and death of St. Catherine of Alexandria was recorded by Eusebius in about the year 320, just a few years after her ...

Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and the Holy Martyrs of Vietnam are 117 individuals who endured tremendous suffering and eventual death because of the...

My childhood home at the Phillips Farm in New Hartford, Connecticut. This has become something I post each year... For me it’s impossible to...

St. Cecilia is one of several martyrs in the early Church who were young girls, and very serious about their faith. Cecilia was of noble bir...

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was the first American citizen to be canonized. She was a naturalized citizen, having been born in Italy. Her par...

When he was merely a boy, Martin became a Christian catechumen against his parents' wishes, and at the age of fifteen he was forced by h...

Pope St. Leo reigned twenty-one years as pope in the 5th century, and is the first pope to be titled "the Great." He truly was a g...

  The Gospel ( St. John 2:13-22 ) appointed for the Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran puts before us the commanding figure of Jesu...

On November 9th the Catholic Church throughout the world celebrates the anniversary of the consecration of the Archbasilica of the Most Holy...

Evensong was prayed for the Faithful Departed, followed by Antonio Salieri's "Requiem" sung by the Honors Choir of The Atoneme...

Charles Borromeo was born into a wealthy, very aristocratic Italian family. The family lived in a beautiful castle, and lived lavishly, with...

St. Martin de Porres was born in very difficult circumstances. His mother was a woman who had been a slave, but now freed, and was of Africa...