CONVICTED MURDERER, CANDIDATE FOR SAINTHOOD FROM ASSASIN TO ASSA-SAINT! Recently I read that Pope Benedict XVI met with the sister of a candidate for beatification. The amazing part of the story is that the candidate was a convicted murderer who was given…
WHEN MEMORY TURNS TO FESTIVITY Filipino Catholics will flock to churches, cemeteries and memorial parks November 1and 2 to celebrate monuments of faith. Both feasts point to life. Both feasts are rooted in memory. Both feasts are fuelled…
By James A. Rurak (thanks to the National Catholic Reporter) My fishing buddy’s a Freemason. Who would have thought that he would transform my experience of the Rosary? One day he handed me a box. Someone had given him a set of Rosary…
CELEBRATE OCTOBER AS THE MONTH OF THE HOLY ROSARY. BELIEVE IN MARY’S POWERFUL INTERCESSION AND HER MATERNAL SOLICITUDE FOR ALL GOD’S CHILDREN. HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, PRAY FOR US SINNERS……
A SIMPLE LESSON FROM ST. JOHN MARY VIANNEY’S CHILDHOOD Popular saint? One of the most important saints of all time is St. John Mary Vianney. In the Philippines, he is however, not as famous as our…