We celebrate the Archangels on Sept. 29. Call on St. Michael for protection, St. Raphael for healing, and St. Gabriel for help spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Divine Mercy, to every heart.
This Priesthood Sunday, Sept. 24, a day to reflect upon and affirm the role of the priest as central to the life of the Church, give your parish priests a gift that keeps on giving — a Holy Hour for their intentions!
What have you heard about Padre Pio, feast day Sept. 23? Maybe you heard that he could bi-locate, or that he had the wounds of Christ. But, asks Br. Eliot, MIC, have you heard about the great love of St. Pio of Pietrelcina for Mary, the Mother of God, and the Rosary?
A great advocate for prayer, St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), cardinal and Doctor of the Church, had an immense understanding of the goodness of God. His feast day is Sept. 17.
She is one of only four female Doctors of the Church, a mystic from the age of 3 who grew into an abbess, author, composer, preacher, and advisor. We are talking about St. Hildegard of Bingen (feast day Sept. 17).
Our Lady of Sorrows, whose feast we celebrate on Sept. 15, is a witness to the truth that suffering comes for us all; sorrow comes for us all. Mary knows intimately our sufferings, and bore similar sufferings with grace.