On All Saints Day we celebrate all the souls who have made it to Heaven and are now saints before the Triune God, though most are not canonized. All human souls in Heaven are Saints of God and heirs to His Kingdom. Today Holy Mother Church celebrates those souls that are in Purgatory, which is a true and beautiful doctrine… (more…)
Great Saint Francis of Assisi was not wanted by his earthly father, Pietro Bernardone. He was angry at his wife for having his son baptized with the name Giovanni after St. John the Baptist. He didn’t want a son who was a man of God, he wanted a merchant like himself. He also wanted a son to reflect his own… (more…)
Today the True Church celebrates the great saint that is Therese, the Little Flower- ‘Of the Child Jesus and Of the Holy Face.’ What a marvelous work Almighty God wrought in her willing and pure soul. Her autobiography, (written under Holy Obedience) is called “The Story Of A Soul” and is highly recommended to every Christian. Saint Therese was declared,… (more…)
Angels are real. They are immortal beings and each person that has ever been or ever will be has a Guardian Angel. This belief is Catholic doctrine and Our Blessed Lord Jesus Himself tells us in scripture: “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look… (more…)
Dearly Beloved, Today we celebrate in gratitude and great sorrow with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Most Blessed Mother, her Seven Sorrows. We ask her to especially help with the Holy Angels and all the Saints in Heaven and Souls in Purgatory those who are suffering for the Faith in Iraq and the Middle East. All those Christians that are… (more…)
Dearly Beloved, Terrible things are happening in the Middle East and around the world to Christians. The situation is so severe that it is difficult to express the proper outrage. The plight of Catholics in Iraq is horrendous. We are led to believe by the media and our leaders that the ouster and death of Sadam Hussein was good for… (more…)
“Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The Soul that quickens this Body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.”-St. Thomas… (more…)
August 2014 brings the 69th. anniversary of the terrible dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which brought about the immediate end of World War II, as Germany had already been vanquished. The bomb exploded just eight blocks from the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Jesuit mission. Fr. Hubert Schiffer, one of the… (more…)
“Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order or in a worldly profession.”-Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, (Edith Stein.) “One can offer himself as a victim for 8-15 days for the conversion of sinners. One can suffer cold, heat, deprive oneself of looking… (more…)
The great feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, like other Marian feasts, highlights God’s wondrous and marvelous deeds in her life and her cooperation in the work of the redemption of man. By honoring and loving Our Blessed Mother Mary we give honor and glory to God, through Jesus Christ the King of Love. Our Lord, by granting… (more…)
