In the Magnificat, the great hymn of Our Lady that we have just heard in the gospel, we find some surprising words. More »
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And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. —Matthew 14:23 More »
On August 2, 1942, the German S.S. stormed a Carmelite convent in Echt, Holland, and demanded that one of its nuns, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, be handed over immediately, along with her sister Rosa. More »
After the death of Francis, Clare became in many ways the holder of his vision for the whole Franciscan movement. More »
God delivered the Israelites from their slavery in Egypt through the events recounted in the early chapters of the Book of Exodus. More »
Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him up a high mountain and was transfigured before them, [his garments] becoming so dazzlingly bright that they were “whiter than the work of any bleacher could make them” (Mark 9:2-10). . . . More »
On a gray and misty late afternoon in February 1818, a thirty-one-year-old priest reached the outskirts of a backwater village north of Lyons, France. Immediately, he knelt down on the roadside and prayed. More »
It seems that he practiced the trade of carpenter, as St. Mark seems to indicate [6:3]: “Is not this, surely, the carpenter?” (Spiritual Exercises, 271) Words of St. Ignatius. More »