Dymphna's Road

I love this painting showing the Holy Family on what I'm guessing must be Passover dinner. 

Pray twenty four Glory Be's with twenty four St. Therese, of the Child Jesus, pray for us.

St. Louis de Monfort, pray for us St. Padre Pio, pray for us St. John Vianney, pray for us St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us ...

HT to Les Femmes

I have such a feeling of deja vu these days. It's like I've seen so much of what's going on in the news before. I guess either...

O glorious advocate and protector, St Valentine, look with pity upon our wants, hear our requests, attend to our prayers, relieve b...

My mother and I both have birthdays in February about a week apart and my wedding anniversary comes on March 1. Along with Candlemass we u...

Mother  Mary Alphonsa dedicated herself to caring for cancer patients. She is the founder of the hospice movement. Mother Mary was the dau...

Remember the whole Anglican-use Catholic thing?  The Anglicans were told they could become Catholic and keep on using their lovely old rit...

Today would have been my father's 77th birthday. May God have mercy on his soul, may he rest in peace, my he see the Holy Face in glor...

The DC Franciscan monastery has a replica of the Jerusalem chapel. I read a book written by a priest pilgrim in 1910, who complained abou...

Wallet Keys for my home and my mother's Charger Flashlight Pen Prayer book Rosary (it's a replica of the WWI US soldier...

Too many orders have fallen a long, sad way from the path this nun tread A friend of mine once told me the story of an incident from th...

If anyone had fantasies about moving to Malta I suggest you read the recent statemen t by the Maltese bishops. There is no Catholic wonder...