...He celebrated Mass in their language and helped translate the New Testament. Father Rother was surrounded by extreme poverty among the Tz’utujil, who were living in one-room huts growing what...
Blessed Stanley Rother
St. Kateri the “Lily of the Mohawks”
...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...
Reflection of Matthew 10:37-42
..."neighbors". Remember, "Honor your father and mother" and "Thou shalt not commit adultery" as well as "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you,...
St. Germaine Cousin
...only four years old, the plague took her caring mother. Her father, Laurent Cousin, married a woman named Armande de Rajols. Germaine’s new stepmother hated the child from the moment...