Let Love Remain in Our Battered Hearts

And night has come upon my land,the carrion birds encirclingand prayers ascend on pyres lit,the shadows fast descending And leaders know not how to lead,they gape, they watch in silencewhile each new day brings grief afresh,no help, no rest, no guidance And those who...

Saturday May 1, 2021 Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker

Although popular devotion to Joseph, husband of Mary, may have begun in the West asearly as the 8 th century, it was not until the 15 th century that his name was entered in theChurch calendar. Since that time, devotion to Joseph has been marked by growingenthusiasm....

Friday April 30, 2021. Feast of Saint Marie of the Incarnation

The first missionary woman to the New World. Marie was born in Tours, France, in 1599.Denying her own attraction to religious life. Marie honoured her father’s wishes an married ClaudeMartin in 1617. Claude died only three years later. Soon after, Marie began...

Thursday April 29, 2021. Saint Catherine of Siena

One of four women honoured with the title of Doctor o the Church. Catherine was born in Siena.Italy, in 1347, her parents’ twenty-fifth and youngest child. At the age of seven, following a visionof Christ in glory, she is reported to have vowed her virginity to God....