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The Shepherd Who Didn't Run Stanley Francis Rother was born March 27, 1935, in Okarche, Oklahoma. The oldest of the children born to Franz and Gertrude Rother, he grew up on a farm and attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church and School. He worked hard doing required chores, attended school, played sports, was an altar server,…

The entire month falls within the liturgical season of Ordinary Time, which is represented by the liturgical color green. This symbol of hope is the color of the sprouting seed and arouses in the faithful the hope of reaping the eternal harvest of heaven, especially the hope of a glorious resurrection. It is used in the…

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose…

Sickly and deformed and abused by her stepmother, she could be called the “Cinderella saint." Her name was Germaine Cousin, a child of 16th-century France. Born with a right arm that was deformed and partially paralyzed, Germaine had a disease called scrofula, which caused terrible, unsightly abscesses across her neck. Worst of all, she was abused by…