Today we celebrate Our Lady of the Rosary, a feast that originally came from from both prayer and battle. It was established after the Christian victory over the invading Muslim Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. The victory in that battle was attributed to Our Lady’s intercession after Pope Pius V asked all…
As we celebrate the Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary today, Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics around the world to make this a Day of Prayer and Fasting for peace in the world, especially for peace in Ukraine and the Holy Land. With trust in the intercession of the Blessed Virgin…
Today, we celebrate the feast of St. John Chrysostom, a Doctor of the Church and a Bishop, who authored many homilies, letters, treatises, essays, and commentaries on the Scriptures and various other aspects of our faith. He is known for his great skills as an orator; in fact, Chrysostom means "gold mouthed." In one of…
Today we celebrate the Memorial of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, an abbot and a Doctor of the Church. He was a Doctor of the Church because of his spirituality and his defense of the teachings of the Church. Bernard was born in 1090 to a French noble family. And if you were born into nobility…
One my absolute favorite titles for St. Joseph is Terror of Demons. It reminds us of his role as the guardian and protector of the Holy Family, how he was entrusted by God to shield Mary and the child Jesus from danger. But it also teaches us a little bit about who St. Joseph was.…
The Virgin Mary is among one of the greatest gifts that God has ever given to humanity. He knew that all of us needed a mother that we could turn to who would walk with us along the path of discipleship. He knew that we needed someone we could turn to who would help lead…
Today the universal Church remembers St. Martin of Tours. And I think it is appropriate that today we also remember Veteran’s Day because Martin is one of our saints that served in the military. Martin was born in the early 300s into a pagan family in what is today Hungary. He was named after Mars,…
Today we are celebrating the feast of St. Faustina Kowalska. Many of us are somewhat aware of who she was and that our devotion to the Divine Mercy comes from the apparitions and mystical experiences that she had of Jesus throughout her life. Thankfully for the Church, many of those apparitions were written down and…
This morning we celebrate the Memorial of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, twin brothers who were Christian martyrs during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. The two were physicians who would offer their medical services to the poor and the rich alike. Because of their faith, they believed it was a duty to give back to others…
My favorite quote from St. Augustine comes from his book Confessions. He says this: “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.” All of us are made in the image and likeness of God because of that there is a…
Fr. Tom Pringle 