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Advent Week 4: Dec. 18-24 The Joyful Mysteries   Here we are, the final week of Advent! You may have found it to be a peaceful, reflective season, or you may, like so many of us, have found it to b...

Advent Week 3: Dec. 11-17 The Luminous Mysteries   Advent is filled with imagery of light and darkness. We light wreaths with candles to signify the four weeks of Advent, and as Christmas approache...

Advent Week 2: Dec. 4-10 The Sorrowful Mysteries “Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a...

As the story goes, a man named John and his wife were high ranking members of an aristocratic family, blessed with many worldly possessions but no children to claim heir to their fortune. Childless...

Like St. Philomena, much of the history of the life of St. Lucy has been lost, but it is known that her death came during the time of christian persecution by the Diocletians in the early 4th centu...

Very little is known about this young saint’s life. Born on January 10th and it is believed that she was a Greek Princess. All we know about Philomena is from the visions of Sr. Maria Luisa Di Gesu...

St. Benedict was born around 480 alongside his twin St. Scholastica to a noble of Nursia. As a young man, he was sent off to Rome to finish his education. It was here that he studied Philosophy, th...

Advent Week 1: Nov. 28-Dec. 3 The Glorious Mysteries   The season of Advent is here! And now… we wait. Much like the months of pregnancy as a woman waits to deliver a child, this season gives us ti...

  Traveling has always been something I have loved to do, and that I long to do more of. I have seen many beautiful, amazing places, and the list of places I would like to visit is long. My younge...