2024 Easter Basket Guide

Easter Baskets are such a fun tradition that children look forward to on Easter Sunday, but did you know that Easter Baskets and Easter eggs can be used as an opportunity to share the story o...

St. Maria Natividad Venegas de la Torre

About St. Maria  Maria Natividad Venegas de la Torre was born in 1868 in Mexico as the last of twelve children. As a teen she lost both of her parents within a 4 year time, leaving her under the gu...
Saint Perpetua

Saint Perpetua

  St. Felicity and Perpetua were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by Emperor Severus. Unlike most early Christian martyrs we have great detail of the...
Fourth Week of Advent: The Joyful Mysteries

Fourth Week of Advent: The Joyful Mysteries

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...
Third Week of Advent: The Luminous Mysteries

Third Week of Advent: The Luminous Mysteries

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...
Second Week of Advent: Sorrowful Mysteries

Second Week of Advent: Sorrowful Mysteries

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...
Our Lady of the Snow
Mary

Our Lady of the Snow

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...
St. Lucy
Catholic Saints

St. Lucy

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...
St. Philomena
Catholic Saints

St. Philomena

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...