...Kateri Tekakwitha who truly lived a courageous, firm, and faith-filled life. She was born in 1656 near upstate New York. Her mother was a Christian Algonquin who was captured and...
St. Kateri the “Lily of the Mohawks”
Why is Lent 40 Days?
...Forty is typically indicative of a time of testing, trial, penance, purification, and renewal. The number forty is used many times in both the Old and New Testaments: Mark 1:12-15:...
Astonished at His Teaching
...They were different from the Scribes who would just quote past scholars and wouldn’t offer any new truths or ideas. Scribes just reinforced what had been said before and exhorted...
Thomas Merton: The Lost Sheep
...a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the Church. He was also…a promoter of peace.” In our gospel we heard...