Feastday: March 31 Patron Saint of Persia St. Benjamin, Martyr (Feast Day – March 31) The Christians in Persia had enjoyed twelve years of peace during the reign of Isdegerd, son of Sapor [...]
Peter lived at a very busy time. The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) was settled at the Council of Constance (1414-1418). France and England were fighting the Hundred Years’ War, and in 1453 the [...]
Francis, the last of 12 children, was born in northern Italy into an aristocratic family. He lived at a particularly turbulent time in history, when anti-Catholic and anti-papal sentiments were [...]
Have you ever had that “I-am-the-happiest-person-in-the-world-right-now” feeling? I had. When? After receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation, I truly felt that. Receiving such a sacrament gives [...]
So what are you sacrificing this Lenten season? Chocolates? But secretly you want to just lose weight. Internet? But you argue with yourself the reality that you can’t get your homework done [...]
Lent is a season of joyous suffering. Despite the lack of Alleluias during mass, the lack of loud percussions, the death of our Lord, it is a season wherein souls most joyously celebrate. For it [...]
Ever wondered why during Ash Wednesday we go to church to have the cross signed on our foreheads? Well, the ash represents “man is dust, and unto dust you shall return.” It is a symbol of penance [...]
Today is the Holy Feast of Annunciation , but beside the great joy of incarnation of our Lord , catholics are celebrating the Feast of Saint Dismas Saint Dismas(sometimes spelled Dysmas or only [...]
Abbot and miracle worker, called “the Wise.” Born in Capua, Italy, he became a monk in Monte Cassino and was called to the attention of a Princess Aloara of the region. When she built [...]
Bishop and defender of the rights of the native Indians in Peru, Born in Mayorga, Spain, he studiedlaw and became a lawyer and then professor at Salamanca, receiving appointment-despite being a [...]