A Pilgrim's Journey

  World Trade Center, 9/11 O God, whose mercies cannot be numbered: Accept our prayers on behalf of thy servants departed, and grant them an...

O GOD, who desirest not the death of a sinner but rather that all mankind should be saved: we beseech thee mercifully to grant that thy hand...

A native of Spain, the young Jesuit priest Peter Claver left his homeland forever in 1610 to be a missionary in the colonies of the New Worl...

"The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was r...

On August 26, 1910 a baby girl was born to a couple of Albanian heritage in Skopje, Macedonia. She was baptized with the name of Agnes, and ...

Labor Day, observed each year on the first Monday in September, has become synonymous with barbeques and bargains, and for most of us it mar...

“What man can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills?” - Wisdom 9:13 “I appeal to you for my child, Onesimu...

St. Gregory, known as "the Great," served the Church as Supreme Pontiff from 590 until 604. Before this he had served the city of ...

O precious Lord, once born for us in stable small and poor; be born again within our hearts, and there let us adore. As once our Saviour th...

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne has a recorded history from the 6th century AD. It was an important center of Christianity not only under St....

The three martyrs we commemorate on August 30th are numbered amongst the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, who suffered death for the Cath...

The circumstances surrounding the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist are rather unsavoury.  We have a drunken king who makes an oath because ...

St. Augustine was born in A.D. 354 in what is modern-day Algeria. His family was of some substance and highly respected. His father Patriciu...

One Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. - St. Luke 14:1 The G...

The circumstances of St. Monica's life could have made her a nagging wife, a bitter daughter-in-law and a despairing parent, yet she did...