A Pilgrim's Journey

St. Ambrose was born about the year 339 in what is now France, the son of the Roman prefect of Gaul. Following his father's footsteps, A...

  The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before t...

St. John of Damascus or Damascene was one of the principal defenders of the veneration of images against the Iconoclasts, who condemned this...

Jesus asked, "What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?" The words were repeated to a young...

Ember days are four separate sets of three days within the same week — specifically, the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday — within the circui...

The time of Advent has a sense of mystery all its own. We know it best as that time of waiting before the Solemnity of the Nativity, but it ...

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...

With the coming of Advent, a new liturgical year begins. This is a time of preparation so that our hearts can be made ready for the two adve...

Our Lord teaches us that “a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” So in giving thanks for the blessings of this ...

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...

St. Clement I of Rome (92-101) was one of the first popes. According to St. Ireneus, he was the third after Peter, following Pope Linus and ...

A little over a century ago in Mexico an evil and militantly anti-Catholic government instituted and enforced laws against the Church in an ...

Jesus Christ, our Saviour King, unto thee thy people sing; hear the prayers we humbly make, hear them for thy mercy's sake. Lord Jesus C...

St. Joachim and St. Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, had prayed for a child, and part of their prayer was the promise that they...