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St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli - A Contemplative, Serious Soul, Delight of God Most High

It is the end of the sixteenth century. This historical period is marked by impiety and atheism, by attachment to luxury and riches, by sin and immorality. The Church needs fiery souls, who with untiring zeal will renew the face of the earth. And among the elite battalion that Providence …
Sr. Emelly Schnorr - 30, November 2018

St. Paula - The Masterpiece of the Doctor of Scripture

If all the members of my body were to be converted into tongues, and if each of my limbs were to be gifted with a human voice, I could still do no justice to the virtues of the holy and venerable Paula.”1 This is how St. Jerome begins one of …
Sr. Maria Beatriz Matos - 31, December 2019

St. Pio of Pietrelcina - Cross, Persecution and Glory

St. Pio of Pietrelcina - Church of Our Lady of Miracles, Rome In the centre of the Campania region, a few kilometres from the commune of Benevento, lies the small agricultural town of Pietrelcina. There, in a simple house having only a few rooms, lived the family of Grazio Forgione …
Fr. Fernando Néstor Gioia, EP - 31, August 2019

St. Patrick - A Fire That Will Never be Extinguished

Shrouded in Atlantic mist and wrapped in a mantle of green, Ireland, in northern Europe, is compared to “an emerald set in the sea.” 1 If we unveil its scenario at the dawn of the fifth century, we find a country leagues behind the rest. Situated at the edge of …
Sr. Elizabeth Veronica MacDonald - 29, February 2016

St. John of Avila - He Enraptured Multitudes

Around two in the morning, a growing multitude began moving toward the church to reserve their places before sunrise. What was about to happen? Why so much excitement at such an hour? Some less-informed inhabitants peered from their windows to inquire about the commotion. They all got the same answers …
Sr. Clotilde Neuburger - 30, April 2015

St. John Chrysostom - The Power of the Word

The Word of God has irresistible power. It is the most powerful weapon that exists; a weapon of conquest and of transformation, far more powerful than an atomic bomb! A well prepared sacred preacher, who transmits the revealed word, has in his hands a true treasure of influence and of …
Angela Maria Tomé - 31, August 2013

St. Joan of Valois - Royalty Embracing Suffering

In our days, marked with the sign of secularism, there is an effort to stamp out all suffering from life as if it were something noxious that separates us from the path of happiness. However, despite the fact that scientific breakthroughs have made it possible to control most pain, it …
Sr. Carmela Werner - 31, January 2017

Blessed Suzanne-Agathe Deloye - “Happy are those whose way is blameless”

Seven kilometres from the town of Orange, in the south of France, is the small Chapel of Gabet. A naturalistic and distracted gaze could consider it as just another monument of piety, among the countless forgotten ones that exist throughout Europe. The reality, however, is different. It is a precious …
Sr. Maria Susana Moreira - 30, June 2023

St. Crispin of Viterbo - He Lived Happily and Died Content

“Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous” (Ps 32:1); “Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!” (Ps 119:1). These and many other teachings of the Psalms can be cited to show how virtue and true joy always go hand in hand. The …
Sr. Clotilde Neuburger - 30, April 2016

St. Damien de Veuster - Father and Servant to the Lepers

Throughout history, the scourge of leprosy has been one of the most expressive symbols of misery, desolation and abandonment. To this day, few misfortunes have equalled the disgrace provoked by this disease, which medical records of every time and place register with drastic descriptions which even the most vivid imaginations …
Sr. Carmela Werner - 31, March 2013

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