We celebrate today the feast day of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. On this day in 1997, she who was called "The Living Saint" because of her dedication to the service of the least and the last in society, joined her Father in heaven.Mother Teresa or Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu was ...
This misunderstanding of the term immaculate conception is frequently met in the mass media. Catholics believe that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself but was the daughter of a human father and mother, traditionally known by the names of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. ...
Finally she became so lonely that she prayed Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for death. An angel visited her and promised that within three days, she would enter heaven, where Jesus awaited her. The angel presented her with a palm branch, which Mary in turned handed to St. John, ...
While Malta also celebrates the two other notable Catholic feast days of Mary as public holidays, 8th September also marks the end of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 when the Knights of Malta defeated the Ottoman Empire forces. It also marks the date of the surrender of Italian forces in ...
Moses was saved from this murder when his mother placed him in a little ark and floated him in the river. Moses's sister watched from afar as the Pharaoh's daughter found the child (Exodus 2). The massacre from which Moses was spared is a type, a foreshadowing, of the massacre of th...
15th: The Assumption of Our Blessed Mother's Annual Feast Day Zia Pueblo - Corn Dances. Laguna Pueblo (Mesita Village) - harvest and various dances. 28th: San Augustine Annual Feast Day Isleta Pueblo - Mass in the morning and a procession following Mass, dances in the afternoon. SEP...
a sign of the eternal covenant between God and the Jewish people. The Feast of the Circumcision, observed on January 1, commemorates the Holy Family's compliance with this custom. It also celebrates the naming of Jesus and, in the Roman Catholic Church, Mary's role as the Mother of God....
O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so...
That might seem like a stretch, but the gist of it was that “My being proclaims the greatness of the Lord” was central to the Blessed Mother’s life as well as to the martyrdom of St. Teresa. After Mass was over, Little Brother asked me what the name of today’s feast was, agai...
39 'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest. 40 And you shall take for yourselves ...