The first of Pope Benedict XVI's messages to young people upon his visit to Britain in 2010: "What God wants most of all for each one of you is that you should become holy. He loves you much more than you could ever begin to imagine, and he wants the very best for you. And by far the best thing for you is to grow in holiness."
Though we don't have many of her words recorded in Scripture, Mary the mother of God is the perfect example of how to trust in God. But how did she do it? Draw inspiration from her life in this blog, extracted from Online With Saints.
On the Day of the Great Killing in 1946, St Teresa of Calcutta went out into the city in search of food for 300 boarding school girls - at great personal risk.
Is ambition a worldly quality that Christians should reject? Discover how the life of St John the Baptist offers insight to Christians, revealing how ambition and Christian faith can be reconciled.
Be inspired by the wisdom of St John Henry Newman on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Auschwitz, 1941. Amidst the great hate of the Nazi death camp, one man managed - for a brief moment - to turn the camp into "a city of love" with his heroic sacrifice. This is the legacy of St Maximilian Kolbe.
