So I’ve been focusing lately on doing more meditative prayer. Each day when I get up I either do 10-15 minutes of meditative prayer or I have a set time in which I will do it. With this particular week I am dropping my kids of for Vacation Bible School every morning so I decided […]
Catholic Places & Pilgrimages
Have you ever wanted to take a Catholic pilgrimage but just don’t have the time to take off and travel to Europe for a week? Have you ever had the time to take a pilgrimage but didn’t have the money to fly to Rome? Why not consider taking a pilgrimage to a Shrine, Grotto, Abbey, […]
St. Pius X
St. Pius X was born Joseph Sarto to a poor village shoemaker and was the oldest of eight. Joseph was ordained with the help of two parish priests and was made assistant to the pastor in a small Italian mountain village. Fr. Sarto was kind and his soul was on fire for God. Fr. Sarto […]
St. Patrick
Patrick was born in Scotland in the year 387. At age 16 he was captured by pirates and was sold as a slave to the chief of Ireland. He was made to tend sheep in the mountains where he prayed much. After six years. a voice from heaven told him to go back to his […]
St. John Bosco
John Bosco was born on a farm near Turin, Italy in 1850. He came from a very poor family. He walked four miles every day to school and was only able to attend for half the year. The rest of the year he worked the fields as a farmer. As he grew older he also […]
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Born in New York City, Aug 28, 1774 Elizabeth lost her mother early in life, and her education became the concern of her father. At 19, Elizabeth married William Magee Seton of New York. They had 5 children in their happy marriage and after Williams’s death Elizabeth was welcomed into the home of life long […]
Is Cardinal Dolan Playing The Part Of Judas?
I can’t sleep. Literally I can’t sleep because of Cardinal Dolan’s invite of President Obama to the Al Smith charity dinner. Obviously this invitation of the President and the other party’s nominee is a small “t” tradition. Even Cardinal Egan didn’t invite Senator Kerry eight years ago because of the scandal it would have caused. […]
Easy to Find Catholic Documents
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks adding the documents from all the church councils and all the encyclicals I could find. Admittedly I haven’t read but one of them Although I have ready Humanae Vitae and hope to update the format of all the encyclicals on the site over the next year so their […]
Pope Paul VI’s Vatican II Closing Address
CLOSING OF THE SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HOMILY OF POPE PAUL VI December 8, 1965 Your eminences, venerable brothers, representatives of governments, gentlemen of the city of Rome, authorities and citizens of the entire world! You, observers belonging to so many different Christian denominations, and you, faithful and sons here present, and you also scattered […]
Presbyterorum Ordinis – Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests
DECREE ON THE MINISTRY AND LIFE OF PRIESTS PRESBYTERORUM ORDINIS PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS, POPE PAUL VI ON DECEMBER 7, 1965 PREFACE 1. The excellence of the order of priests in the Church has already been recalled to the minds of all by this sacred synod.(1) Since, however, in the renewal of Christ’s Church tasks […]