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St. Thomas Aquinas taught, “Happiness is the natural life of man.” What would have inspired these saints to make such statements if not meditating on the life of our Lord? Not to take away from the great example of St. Anthony Claret, but joyful love of the Lord and well-placed laughter has made more converts than harsh penances and sullen ...
Who is St. Anthony and why is he the patron saint of lost things? What is the stigmata? What is the official process for declaring someone a saint? What is the Church’s teaching on martyrdom? What are relics? What are angels? Whatever happened to St. Christopher? Is he still a saint? More Answers →
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St. Michael the Archangel, whose name means, “one who is like God,” led the army of angels who cast Satan and the rebellious angels into Hell; at the end of time, he will wield the sword of justice to separate the righteous from the evil (cf. Revelation 12:7ff). The early Church Fathers recognized the importance of the angels and archangels ...
The confusion over whether St. Christopher is still a saint arose when Pope Paul VI revised the Liturgical Calendar, which includes the feast days of saints that are commemorated at Mass. Due to the proliferation of the number of feast days over the centuries, the Second Vatican Council in its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy proposed ...
St. Joseph was “of the house and lineage of David” (Luke 2:4). Because of this ancestry, St. Joseph is the linkage between the old covenant made with Abraham and Moses, and the new, perfect, and everlasting covenant which will be made through the blood of Jesus. He brings to a close the notion of the Patriarch’s promised land and King ...
St. Anthony Mary Claret, in his autobiography, said that laughing did not appeal to him and that Jesus Himself was never seen to laugh. Laughter is a way of expressing emotion, particularly joy.
Some people mistakenly think the term is related to Mary’s conception of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. However, the Immaculate Conception is the belief that “the most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and in view of the merits of Christ Jesus the ...
In our own country, St. John Neumann (1811-60), the fourth bishop of Philadelphia, was a strong promoter of the Forty Hours Devotion. While the practice had already existed in individual churches throughout the city (as well as in other places in the country), no organized, cohesive diocesan schedule for it had ever before been attempted. St.
St. Anthony was born in Lisbon in 1195 and was baptized “Ferdinand.” His parents were of nobility. Some writers of the fifteenth century posited that his father was Martin Bouillon, a descendant of the famous Godfrey de Bouillon, commander of … Continued