We all started off the first lockdown with the best of intentions, but by now most of us are feeling fatigued and unmotivated. Discover five Catholic ways to beat lockdown fatigue, to leave you feeling happier and healthier.

Mary is the new tabernacle. Through her perfect humility and faith, she became the Mother of God and the Mother “in the order of grace”. God, who cannot be contained by anything or anyone, came into the world through the tabernacle of Mary.

To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate with Mary the face of Christ. The Rosary, reclaimed in its full meaning, goes to the very heart of Christian life. Rediscover the importance of the Rosary and the many benefits from praying it in this blog.

When my boyfriend asked me to be his wife, I almost instantly said yes! It wasn’t one of those fairy tale proposals - it was cold and raining and he left me outside while he gathered his ENTIRE family. As most girls would be when they’d found ‘the one’, I was over the moon! I was excited! But I was also very anxious… after all, my boyfriend is not a Catholic.

For many people, the celebration of St Patrick's Day has more in common with Bastille Day in France or Independence Day in the USA than a Catholic feast day. It is a day of shamrock and of being ‘Proud to be Irish’ and hymns about ‘Erin’s green valleys.’ But who was the real St Patrick and did he actually exist?

O Emmanuel, you are our king and judge, the One whom the peoples await and their Saviour. O come and save us, Lord our God.