Feast Days

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I was blessed to visit where the Annunciation took place. I figured that I should...

The other day TIME Magazine picked up a Patheos post from a different channel in...

  Happy Birthday to St. John the Baptist! Here is a little poem I found...

What is the deal with celebrating Trinity Sunday? After all, isn't every Mass a celebration...

I came upon these lines while researching St. Ephrem the Syrian, the Deacon, and Doctor...

Put your Bibles down, folks, because Jesus never said that. It's just a thought that...

How can something good come from something tragic? This is a mystery to us all....

-Feast of the Holy Innocents  Have you ever heard of Emily Hickey? Me either, at...

Christmas is right around the corner, so you all know what that means? Music, of...

Wikipedia is already updated. There are lots of "firsts" here. First American Pope. First Jesuit...

It's the feast day of the plucky little lass from Ireland who penned one of...

I am late in coming around to an appreciation of St. Thomas Aquinas. As the...

On the Liturgical Calendar today, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Baptism of the...

Today is the feast day of St. John, the "disciple whom Jesus loved." Jesus called...

Because Christ is God and frankly, Mammon is a chump. The Mammster is nowhere even...

Here's a quote for the feast day, from an unlikely source. You cannot exaggerate about...

I came pretty close to spending an entire lifetime on planet Earth without knowing that...

The Heart of Mary, by Sheldon Vanauken (1914-1996). Dear sister, I was not divine, The...

And so we leave Eastertide behind.  Before we move on into "Ordinary Time", recall the...

Sorry guys, but after reading the USCCB's response to the ridiculous proposal by Seizure to...

In the photograph above, you see the original Señor Santo Niño statue that Ferdinand Magellan...

Before I was a Catholic, I didn't put much stock in the name of Jesus....

At the Battle of Mobile Bay in the American Civil War, Admiral David Glasgow Farragut...

This, in a nutshell, is why I became a Marine. “It’s a reminder of why...

And that is good enough for me. Especially because smarter, more capable, and more knowledgeable...

A reflection for December 9, 2009 from The Little Blue Book: Advent & Christmas Seasons 2009-2010....

Yes, yesterday was Sunday but you know what else it was? It was the Feast...

Originally published on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, in December of last year, it...

Remember that little post? That was nothing compared to the well-meaning goodness that Joe Carter...