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St. Catherine de Ricci

St. Catherine de Ricci

Born in Florence, Italy, in 1522, Saint Catherine was baptized Alexandrina. When...

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Finding Purpose through Christlike Prayer

Finding Purpose through Christlike Prayer

I recently visited a religious sister who was hospitalized with a terminal case...

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Lenten Kitchens

Lenten Kitchens

Do your Lenten traditions include a spring cleaning of your kitchen?  For our Catholic...

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Blessed Detox

Blessed Detox

Don Dolindo’s Soul Purification Through Fasting The Book of Deuteronomy resounds...

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Lent Should Hurt, But We Aren’t Alone

Lent Should Hurt, But We Aren’t Alone

Lent is a liturgical season brimming with immense graces. It is a time when we are...

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St. Claude de la Colombiere

St. Claude de la Colombiere

Claude de la Colombiere was beatified in 1929 and canonized by Pope John Paul II...

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Ash Wednesday and Right Relation to the Truth

Ash Wednesday and Right Relation to the Truth

It happens every year on Ash Wednesday. In our downtown parishes, women and men,...

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Catholic Guilt is Not a Thing

Catholic Guilt is Not a Thing

In 1905, G.K. Chesterton published a letter to the editor in the Daily Times, the...

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Saint John Leonardi

Saint John Leonardi

Giving Unto Death St. John Leonardi was born in 1541 in Lucca, Italy. While studying...

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St. Francis Borgia

St. Francis Borgia

Francis was born the first of 17 children to a noble family in Valencia, Spain....

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St. John of the Cross’s Heroic Suffering at the Hands of the Clergy

St. John of the Cross’s Heroic Suffering at the Hands of...

St. John of the Cross is one of the greatest mystics in the history of the Church....

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Angels: Our Messengers and Guardians

Angels: Our Messengers and Guardians

The case for the existence of angels is very strong, if not airtight.  The Bible...

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“A Gift Straight from God”: Don Dolindo’s Miraculous Infusion of Intelligence

“A Gift Straight from God”: Don Dolindo’s Miraculous Infusion...

“My whole life, at its essence, has been nothing other than a series of countless...

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Be Faithful to God in Little Things

Be Faithful to God in Little Things

Holy Scripture has said two things that may convince us of the importance of faithfulness...

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St. Alexander Sauli

St. Alexander Sauli

Alexander was born in 1534 in Milan, Italy, to an important Genoese family. He joined...

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A Prayerful Life Needs Interior Silence

A Prayerful Life Needs Interior Silence

Not to try to live in interior silence is equivalent to giving up the effort to...

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Ten Spiritual Lessons from St. Teresa of Avila

Ten Spiritual Lessons from St. Teresa of Avila

In this short essay, we would like to pay tribute to Saint Teresa of Avila and highlight...

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St. Wilfrid

St. Wilfrid

St. Wilfrid (634-709) was born in Northumberland,  educated at Lindesfarne and then...

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The Miracle of Incorruptibility Points to Eternity

The Miracle of Incorruptibility Points to Eternity

The incorrupt saints serve as a sign of comfort and hope to many people. Their pure...

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We Are All Sinners Called to Communion with the Perfect God

We Are All Sinners Called to Communion with the Perfect...

Ex 34:4-6, 8-9; 2Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18 I heard a cringe-worthy preaching recently...