How little I think of committing venial sin, and how soon I forget I have done so! Yet God hates nothing more …
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September 6, 2024
Today is the feast of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, one of the most famous and popular Catholics of recent times. Saint Teresa …
September 5, 2024
Today we continue the narrative and consider the events of September 4, 1916. Next morning there was a short march over the …
September 4, 2024
The above image was published in an Irish newspaper at the end of 1916. The priest is unidentified, but we can well …
September 3, 2024
The following praise for Fr Willie appeared in the Glasgow Weekly News on 1 September 1917. It was written by a Belfast …
September 2, 2024
Reasons why our Communions and Masses do not make us Saints. 1. Want of preparation, through sloth, carelessness, or absorption in other …
September 1, 2024
Why are we not saints? Want of courage and want of patience. We give up, we have not the strength of will …
August 30, 2024
How many wish to belong entirely to Jesus without reserve or restriction? Most want to serve two masters, to be under two …
August 28, 2024
Don’t be stingy in giving praise, particularly with the young. If in a community there is some sister not as edifying as …
August 27, 2024
If only one could grasp this fact: every tiny thing (aspiration, self-denial etc) makes us holier than we were. Just think of …
August 26, 2024