A Pilgrim's Journey

St. Justin Martyr was an apologist, and was one of the most important Christian writers of the second century. He was a Greek and was born i...

The Feast of the Visitation honours the Blessed Virgin Mary, who bore in her womb the Incarnate Word of God. It shows her as the first missi...

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead; We give thee thanks for all those thy servants who have laid ...

It is the foundational belief of every Christian that God is a Trinity of Persons. In fact, that is the very definition of Christianity. It ...

If we had to choose the one saint who always had a funny story to tell, or a harmless practical joke to play, it would be St. Philip Neri, w...

Most merciful God, we beseech thee: that thy Church, being gathered together in the Holy Spirit, may nevermore be disquieted by the assaults...

We beseech thee, O Lord, that the Comforter who proceedeth from thee may enlighten our minds: and lead us, as thy Son hath promised, into al...

Grant, we beseech thee, merciful God: that thy Church, being gathered together in unity by thy Holy Spirit, may manifest thy power among all...

“¡Viva Cristo Rey!” (“Long live Christ the King!”). This was the cry of the “Cristeros,” Catholics who took up arms in the 1920’s in Mexico ...

Pentecost by Giotto di Bondone, c. 1320 "Whitsunday" by George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) Listen sweet Dove unto my son...

In the mid-10th century there was a king in England whose name was Edgar the Peaceable. Not that he was a peaceable man himself – he wasn’t....

Pope John I became pope in 523, and inherited the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ. The Western Empire had been ruled for 3...

This 19th century oil painting of St. Isidore the Farmer is located in Our Lady of the Atonement Church. St. Isidore the Farmer, born into a...

St. Matthias had been a follower of Jesus and was probably one of the seventy-two disciples. After our Lord’s ascension into heaven, the nas...

One of the scriptural phrases intimately associated with Ascensiontide is that when our Lord ascended into heaven, "he led captivity ca...