Every year, the Season of Lent (my most favorite season of the Catholic Liturgical Year) gives all faithful Catholics a special time of penitence and conversion; suffering and healing; sacrifice and grace. It is when the sorrow and grief in remembering Our Lord’s Passion ultimately brings us to the glory …
11th of February, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. On this day, we celebrate and honor the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the first of which took place on 11 February 1858. Saint Bernadette saw on that day “uo petito damizelo,” a small maiden, of …
More than just marking the very first day of the very first month, celebrating the Solemnity of the Virgin Mary as the Holy Mother of God is what makes New Year’s Day a truly blessed start of the year. Today’s feast commemorates Mary’s divine and virginal motherhood of Jesus, as …
Happy New Year! On this day, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family to honor Our Lord Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph as a family. In the General Roman Calendar, it is celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, which is the …
Merry Christmas! I would love to share with you a reflection on the Holy Family in relation to your own family this Christmas, by Most Reverend Julian Porteous, the Archbishop of Hobart in Australia. I want to reflect on it, in my heart and soul. You have to read it, …
For many Catholic Filipinos, it was during Pope Francis’ visit in the Philippines on January 2015 that they first heard of “The Sleeping Saint Joseph.” (See the transcript of his speech on this topic at the end of the article) Personally, I didn’t think I ever saw before a figurine …
“Am I not here, I who am your Mother?” Our Lady of Guadalupe spoke this phrase in native Aztec Nahuatl language on the 12th of December 1531 as she had appeared for the fourth time to Saint Juan Diego, a 57-year old Mexican peasant and Catholic convert. It was also on …
Read the Importance of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Our Catholic Life for the 2017 Reflection on this Marian Feast. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary this year is very special to me: It is the 19th Anniversary of the first …
Back when I was 9 years old, there’s this woman, who was a family friend, that each time something about the Catholic Church would come up in conversations, she would repeatedly tell her story of why from being a Catholic, she converted to a Protestant cult. According to her, she …
In this day and age of modernity, technological advancement, and scientific exploration, secularism, which is the rejection of God and religion, becomes so rampant in different parts of the world that almost every human achievement is credited to the wonders and greatness of the human mind. Many of us can’t …
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