“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace,...
“I have this from the all-holy eyes of God that see the good and the evil everywhere. For those blessed and all-holy eyes have not seen among sinners anyone more vile or insufficient than I am. And so in order to do that wonderful work which He intends to do,...
Servant of God Leo Heinrichs was a Franciscan priest and pastor who was assassinated for being a Catholic priest. Joseph Heinrichs was born on the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, 1867 at Oestrich, a small Prussian town in western modern-day Germany. His parents, Joseph and Agnes, educated him very...
“Since, by the goodness of God, we who are called ‘Christians’ have been granted the honor of sharing this name – the greatest, the highest, the most sublime of all names – it follows that each of the titles that express its meaning should be clearly reflected in us. If...
St. Gregory Nazianzen was a monk and bishop, a Father and Doctor of the Church, who defended the Catholic truth against the Arian heresy. Gregory was born about the year 329 at Arianzus, Cappadocia in Asia Minor, or modern-day Turkey. His mother, Nonna, converted her husband (also Gregory) after her...
Servant of God Walter Ciszek was a missionary priest, political prisoner, professor, retreat master, author, and spiritual director. Walter was born in 1904 in the small coal-mining town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. His parents, Martin and Mika Ciszek, were hard working, poor Polish immigrants. Tough guy from the start From early...
The Wisdom of the Saints……………………….about the Incarnation (part 4) “The Lord entered [Mary] to become a servant. The Word came into her to keep silence in her womb. The thunder came into her to make no sound whatever. The shepherd came into her and see, the Lamb is born, crying...
“It is His breath that is in us, and when He wants to, He will take it away.” Pope St. Clement I (1st century) “Treat this body with care, I pray you, and understand that with this body you will rise from the dead to be judged. But if any...
The Wisdom of the Saints………………………about Holy Scripture (part 3) “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church. After their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did also hand...
The Wisdom of the Saints.…about the Virgin Mary (part 5) “And thus also it was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, thus did the virgin Mary set free through faith.” St. Irenaeus (2nd-3rd...