Entries for 2024

View Jonathan Roumie's Full Speech at the National Eucharistic Congress here

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Source As Benedict XVI told priests and seminarians at the cathedral in Bressanone, Italy, in August 2008, ‘on the basis of the cathedral’s beauty, we succeed in visibly proclaiming God, Christ and all his mysteries.’ Photographing all 193 cathedrals and 93 basilicas across t...

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West Virginia summer camp is booked — for for good reason, according to campers and parents, who love soon-to-be St. Carlo Acutis. Source Nestled in the lush mountains of Randolph County, West Virginia, is the only Catholic sleep-away summer camp named for the first soon-to-be canonized ...

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Source On August 4, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. John Vianney, patron of priests.  John Vianney, also known as the Holy Curé de Ars, was born May 8, 1786 in Dardilly, near Lyon, France to a family of farmers. He was ordained a priest in 1815 and became curate in Ecully. He w...

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Source God does speak to us. No, I don’t mean in an apparition or with an audible voice. God has His own voice and we have to attune our hearts to Him to be able to hear it. Robert Cardinal Sarah speaks of the importance of silence in hearing God’s voice: At the heart of man the...

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Source 7-foot-1-inch NBA champion Luke Kornet learns from setbacks and sufferings — anchored by adoration and the Mass. Luke Kornet left Vanderbilt University in 2017 with high hopes. He was the school’s all-time record holder in blocks (210) and was the NCAA’s all-time recor...

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Source One of the benefits of enjoying a Christian life is the contemplation prayer brings. It is critical to set aside time for daily reflection and prayer and bring clarity to our purpose in this life – to glorify God in all we do. Our actions need to be designed to express our love fo...

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Source July 22: Saint Mary Magdalene—Feast First Century Patron Saint of pharmacists, contemplatives, converts, glovemakers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumers, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women Invoked against sexual temptations Pre-Co...

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Source On July 26 the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the parents of the Virgin Mary, Saints Joachim and Anne. The couple's faith and perseverance brought them through the sorrow of childlessness, to the joy of conceiving and raising the immaculate and sinless woman who would give birth to...

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Source Facts Feastday: July 31 Patron: Dioceses of San Sebastian and Bilbao, Biscay & Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, Society of Jesus, soldiers, Educators and Education. Birth: 1491 Death: 1556 Beatified: July 27, 1609 by Paul V Canonized: M...

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