While serving in Calcutta, Susan Conroy developed a personal friendship with Mother Teresa, whose feast we celebrate on Sept. 5. Purchase Susan's book at a SPECIAL price!
"Every time I see another neo-Nazi attack on some part of America," Chris Sparks says, "I am reminded once again of the urgency of both evangelization and the New Evangelization."
The Divine Mercy message has spread throughout the universal Church, says Dian Mayo, a Marian Helper from Redding Ridge, Connecticut, because individuals across the years and around the world paid attention to the promptings in their souls and followed where the Lord was leading them.
We tend to treat prayer as a last resort, as a desperate measure, as though it were not the most powerful means of causing change in ourselves and in the world available to us. Why is that?
Saint John Eudes (1601-1680), whose feast we celebrate on Aug. 19, was one of the leading proponents of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He also discerned a close connection between the Heart of Jesus and Divine Mercy.
Saint Maximilian Kolbe is one of the 20th century's most famous saints and influential priests. Why? Father Dan Cambra, MIC, explains.
If we look at the lives of the saints, we discover a powerful reality — those who are in love with God are always at peace, no matter the hardship, resting in the innermost heart in the will and providence of God. Consider the miracle that is the life of the priest and martyr St. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast we celebrate on Aug. 14.
Through her faith in the Cross, Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, feast day Aug. 9) allowed God to transform her suffering and death into a message of love and redemption for the world.
Since 2018, the non-profit Water 4 Mercy has been providing clean water, sustainable agriculture, and native educational initiatives throughout a network of villages in drought-stricken Dodoma, Tanzania.
Think of that for a moment. The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity had grandparents, Joachim and Anne.
On the feast day of St. James, Apostle, July 25, we share another example of how Jesus keeps His promises.
On July 4, remember that the Patroness of the United States is mother for all of us: those on the left or the right, Democrat or Republican, whatever our ethnicity, race, or even creed. Our Lady is the New Eve, Mother of the New Adam, and the Refuge of Sinners; she has been given the whole human race by God.
