Today, June the thirteenth, is the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church, who is also known as the hammer of the heretics. Five years ago, we wrote about his teaching on the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I am posting this writing again, today, as it is such a delight to learn about the…
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The Queenship of Mary, May 31
On the last day of May, the Church commemorates the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and for this day, I am posting an article (in bold print with source cited at the end) by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski which was published in New Liturgical Movement. The article is titled, “Mighty, Conquering Warrior”: The Queenship of Mary. And, speaking of our Queen, and…
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Hail Glorious May: the Month of Mary
“The Child Christ lives on from generation to generation in the poets, very often the frailest of [mortals], but [mortals] whose frailty is redeemed by a child’s unworldliness, by a child’s delight in loveliness, by the spirit of wonder. Christ was a poet, and all through his life the Child remains perfect in him. It was the poet, the unworldly…
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The Annunciation 2023
“Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.” ~Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Tomorrow, the Roman Catholic Church commemorates possibly the most beautiful moment in the history of the world, the Annunciation; or, as the day of the Annunciation is known, Lady Day.…
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Saint Catherine Laboure, November 28
Today, the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the French saint Catherine (Zoe) Laboure (b. 1806- d. 1876). Catherine was a farmer’s daughter who grew up in turbulent times; and, besides the cultural upheaval around her, the little Zoe, as she was known to her family, experienced personal turbulence when she lost her mother to death at the age of nine. At the time…
