Time and time again Israel’s prophets spoke about the need to go back into the desert where Moses had led Israel’s ancestors. Today, we too find it valuable to go back into the desert, so that as we take up battle against spiritual evils, we are armed with weapons of self-restraint.
This quick but helpful guide has everything you need to make a good confession, breaking down the essential elements of a good confession and explaining step by step how to go to confession.
When Scholastica met her brother for the last time, a sudden rainstorm providentially prolonged the meeting; three days later St Benedict saw her soul ascend to heaven as a dove.
The tragic story of St Josephine Bakhita, of her abduction into slavery but her eventual discovery of Jesus, is an important story for us to know in times when human trafficking is still a very real problem.
St Paul Miki and his twenty-five companions were crucified and then stabbed with spears, though the executioners were astounded upon seeing their joy at being thus associated with the passion of Christ.
The Presentation of the Lord, popularly known as ‘Candlemas,’ traditionally concludes the celebration of Christmas. It commemorates the presentation of Jesus in the Temple forty days after his birth, an occasion when offerings were made and the mother was ritually purified.
