Prayer of Consecration Saint of the Day for February 9-Saint Jerome Emiliani (1486 – February 8, 1537) Saint Jerome Emiliani’s Story A careless and irreligious soldier for the city-state of Venice, Jerome was captured in a skirmish at an outpost town

Saint Colette’s Story Colette did not seek the limelight, but in doing God’s will she certainly attracted a lot of attention. Colette was born in Corbie, France. At 21, she began to follow the Third Order Rule and became an anchoress, a woman walled into

Saint Paul Miki and Companions’ Story (d. 1597) Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped, immediately killing over 37,000 people. Three and a half centuries before, 26 martyrs of Japan were crucifi

Prayers Come, Spirit Of Life, Rosary Saint Agatha is the Patron Saint of:  Nurses As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint except that she was martyred in Sicily during t

Saint of the Day for February 4 Saint Joseph of Leonissa (January 8, 1556  â€“ February 4, 1612) Saint Joseph of Leonissa’s Story Joseph was born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples. As a boy and as a student in early adulthood, Joseph drew attention fo

Saint of the Day for February 3 Saint Blaise Reflection Four centuries give ample opportunity for fiction to creep in with fact. Who can be sure how accurate Blaise’s biographer was? But biographical details are not essential. Blaise is seen as one more

This Novena to be made from the 2nd to the 10th of February

Saint of the Day for January 23-Saint Marianne Cope-(January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918 Saint Marianne Cope’s Story Though leprosy scared off most people in 19th-century Hawaii, that disease sparked great generosity in the woman who came to be known as M

Saint of the Day for January 22 Saint Vincent of Zaragossa( d. c. 304) Reflection The martyrs are heroic examples of what God’s power can do. It is humanly impossible, we realize, for someone to go through tortures such as Vincent had and remain faithfu

2ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR I MARK 3:13-19 Friends, today’s Gospel recounts Jesus selecting and appointing the apostles. Bible scholar and theologian N.T. Wright has explained why Jesus commissioned twelve disciples as apostles. Wright tells us tha