"Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the...

I would like to offer my most heartfelt thanks to God for a great and very generous grace GRANTED to my family today. Trust in the Lord - He...

No, I am not a stuffy ultra conservative type. Actually I prefer the Novus Ordo mass Ad Orientem with chant as the only music. Actually the ...

Yes its been months since I've posted. Yes, the feast of Our Lady's Sorrows and most of Lent has gone by and I've not posted, no...

Notre Dame Basilica Montreal Quebec, Canada No longer used "The desire to be more plainly understood was the reason why the preacher...

Altar Rail or Communion Rail The railing which guards the sanctuary and separates the latter from the body of the church. It is also called ...

Movie trailer is posted on Vimeo and is in HD - I am unable after several attempts to post the video to Blogger without crashing the APP. Pl...

Sleeping Apostles - Boticelli " We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us...

"WHAT is truth? That was the question Pontius Pilate posed after Jesus said to him: For this I was born and for this I came into the wo...

"With tragic consequences, a long historical process is reaching a turning-point. The process which once led to discovering the idea of...

Have I mentioned before and I am NO MYSTIC? I am just a simple Catholic lady struggling like every one else. The list of my faults and frequ...

The Absolution of the dead is a series of prayers for pardon and remission of sins that are said in the Catholic Church over the body of a d...

An excellent blog post on one of my patron saints. I pray God grant me to be able to pilgrimmage to Holywell someday and walk the ground of ...

The Trinity with the Holy Souls in Purgatory Corrado Giaquinto, c. 1743 Italy I've posted this amazing picture before. I'm proud to ...

All should read this and shiver - "Now I beg those who read this book not to be disheartened by these misfortunes, but to consider that...

Image of a French Holy card published by R. Pannier, Paris, in the late 19th century ( source ) They don't make them like this anymore. ...

Jesus and Mary at the deathbed of St. Joseph O merciful Jesus, lover of souls, we beseech you by the agony of your most Sacred Heart and by...

I have a great deal of longing for piety, reverence, sacredness and solemnity at Mass. My family and I are blessed to be members of a very g...

"For, were the Church in any time hidden and invisible, to whom would men have recourse in order to learn what they are to believe and ...

Detail of the Polytriptich of the Resurrection by Titian "The innovators have been challenged several times to produce a text of Sacred...

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"The innovators themselves do not deny that the Roman Church was the first which Jesus Christ founded. However, they say that it was th...

Introduction: I've said before that I am not a Catholic apologist. I tend to spend little to no time in consideration of protestant fait...

I just read my husband's excellent post on just one of the many current scourges upon the world in this time - what I have come to call ...

I was reading a fascinating and orthodox book titled: "Leave your Life Alone by Hubert Van Zeller. Most surprising was that fact that i...

In all the business of life, with all your stress and difficulties - remember there was a darker day. No one suffered more than Our Lord. S...

As Christians we struggle with the understanding of suffering. We love the glory of the resurrection and we are delighted by the wonder of t...

My wife and I were concerned about the quality of the films produced by Hollywood and their impact on the minds of our children. We discusse...