Angels and Saints . . . and the Rest of Us

Devotion to the sorrows of Mary can be traced back to the 12th century, when the newly formed Servite Order embraced it as thei...

Between the years 1928 and 1940, St. Josemaria owned a faulty alarm clock that he couldn't rely on. Not wanting to spend what l...

Today is the feast day of St. Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Edith Stein, a Jewish co...

"The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Dev...

My previous post featuring St. John Vianney was short and sweet and seriously in need of a sequel considering the stature of the sa...

The Laughing Angel Reims Cathedral While adults often use fancy language and convoluted reasoning to explain things they don...

  "If we saw an angel clearly, we should die of pleasure."  St. Bridget of Sweden Today is the feast day of St. Br...

We seem to read and talk a lot about what our guardian angels do for us. Maybe what we should be focusing on is what we should do for the...

Today is the feast of St. Isidore the Farmer (1070-1130). St. Isidore was a poor Spanish farmhand who worked his whole life for a wealt...

All of this angelic activity talked about so far was a prelude, of course, to the visits Our Lady would make the following year to the chil...