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On July 11, we celebrate the feast day of one of the Church's greatest saints - St. Benedict. Benedict was born into a wealthy family north of Rome in 480, but gave up his studies and life of comfort to...

On June 24th, we celebrate the only solemnity for a birth in the Church's calendar, other than Jesus'. This is the birth of John the Baptist, the Precursor of the Lord, who would prepare the way for Him when His time...

Next Friday, we celebrate the Feast of the Sacred Heart, in which we adore the tender and compassionate Heart of Jesus. Biblically, we see an early devotion to the Sacred Heart when St. John rests his head against Jesus' Heart...

Next Sunday is the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, a day when we honor the True Presence in the Eucharist. As Catholics, we believe that during consecration, the bread and wine become the actual Body and Blood of Christ. This teaching...

Next week, we celebrate the birthday of the Church on Pentecost. Pentecost remembers the 50th day after Jesus's Resurrection, when He sent down the Holy Spirit upon His apostles to go out and build up the Kingdom of God on...

On May 13, we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Fatima because on that date in 1917, the Blessed Mother appeared for the first time to three poor children in Fatima, Portugal. Lucia, Francesco, and Jacinta were poor children...

Although we just celebrated St. Joseph's main feast day on March 19, he has another one coming up! In 1955, Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker to celebrate the patron saint of laborers and the dignity of...

Just recently, on Holy Thursday, we recalled the institution of the Eucharist as a sacrament, which the documents of Vatican II called the "source and summit of the Christian life" (CCC 1324). At the Easter Vigil, many adult catechumens received...

Divine Mercy Sunday is in just a couple days! This solemnity, which is always on the first Sunday after Easter, was brought about by the writings of a humble Polish nun in the 1930s. St. Faustina was born Helen Kowalska...