For many years now, the Blessed Mother has played an important role in my life and ministry. It will be a great joy, in this upcoming month of May, to honor her. How blessed are we that we have the love of the Blessed Mother! We have a spiritual...
As we enter the New Year, let us embrace and pay homage to the woman whose fiat, or “yes,” played a pivotal role in the divine plan of salvation. Mary, as the Mother of God, occupies a unique and revered position in Christian theology...
“…faith and prayer are forces that can influence history and that in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful than armies.” (St. John Paul II) August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin...
The month of May is the Month dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It has been a great and most noble custom within the Church to dedicate the entire Month of May to honour Mary, the Mother of God and Our Mother. This goes back to medieval times. To begin...
Following Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, and then Hurricane Rita shortly after that, thousands of volunteers from around the country went down South to help the devastated victims of the storms. One of them, a nurse from Vermont, kept a diary, and...
January 1, 2023 is not just the beginning of a new year but also, within the Church’s calendar, is the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. Now that our dear Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has left us to get his merited eternal reward in heaven it is...
During the first four centuries of the Church, many heresies developed regarding Jesus Christ. Finally, at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D., the bishops, united with the Pope, clarified the matter: “We teach…one and the same Christ...
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was a monk and a doctor of the Church. As much as he liked the quiet of his life in the monastery, he was frequently called upon to settle disputes in the Church, such as one time when two men claimed to be...
