As we wind down our Thanksgiving celebrations, and enter into Advent, I am thinking about the considerations of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux regarding Our Lady,
If our prayers are like gems, we surely can entrust Mary to polish them before she presents them to Our Lord. We can only imagine
“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
In accord with the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, Mary is celebrated as the Queen of Heaven. The universal Church celebrates the feast
All of Christendom shifts to a somber mood during Holy Week which commemorates Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection. For the Filipino faithful, Holy Week is
A few years ago I heard about a book from a friend titled Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul. Though I
Twice in the month of December we honor the Blessed Mother in a special way on the liturgical calendar: on the Solemnity of the Immaculate
Most people just mumble their prayers without paying much attention to the words. But the words in the Hail Mary were carefully chosen by St.
Meditation has never been more popular in the United States than it is at the present. Approximately 14% of adult Americans have at least tried
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, intercessory prayer is “a prayer of petition that leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is
Temptations Temptations, we all have them. It is part of life. It is part of human nature and they will exist until we die. Adam
In conversations with Catholics from around the country, one will encounter varying levels of devotion to Our Lady. Such devotions seem to run along a
I object to the profanation of sacred images and sacramentals in cinema. I have been writing about and meditating on the power of the Holy
Wisdom from a Great Saint St. Teresa of Calcutta was canonized on September 4, 2016, in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis. She
The following is an unofficial translation of an address given by His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Amato at the Pontifical University Antonianum on the apparitions of
