03
Jan
St Elizabeth Ann Seton – 04 Jan
Born 28 August 1744 in New York city into a wealthy and influential Episcopalian family, the daughter of a Dr Richard Bayley; Elizabeth...
Feasts & Saints
01
Jan
Mary, the Holy Mother of God – 01 Jan
HOLY MASS ON THE SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
53rd WORLD DAY OF PEACE
PAPAL MASS
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
Vatican Basili...
26
Dec
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph – 29 Dec
An address given at Nazareth by Blessed Pope Paul VI
The example of Nazareth
The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to unde...
26
Dec
Holy Innocents – 28 Dec
The Holy Innocents are the children who were slaughtered at the orders of King Herod, in the hope that by killing every boy born in Bet...
26
Dec
St Stephen, the First Martyr – 26 Dec
First Christian martyr. Deacon. Preacher. All we know of him is related in the Acts of the Apostles. While preaching the Gospel in the ...
13
Dec
St John of the Cross – 14 Dec
Born in poverty. Cared for the poor in the hospital in Medina del Campo, Spain. Carmelite lay brother in 1563 at age 21, though he live...
12
Dec
St Lucy, Virgin & Martyr – 13 Dec
Rich, young Christian of Greek ancestry. Raised in a pious family, she vowed her life to Christ. Her Roman father died when she was you...
11
Dec
Our Lady of Loreto – 10 Dec
Since the Middle Ages veneration for the Holy House of Loreto has been the origin of that particular shrine which still today is visite...
11
Dec
Our Lady of Guadalupe – 12 Dec
The Blessed Virgin appeared on Saturday 9 December 1531 to a 55 year old neophyte named Juan Diego, who was hurrying down Tepeyac hill ...
08
Dec
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 08 Dec
The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin, that twist in our na...