Showing posts with label saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saints. Show all posts
07 November 2011

'Can you pray for my sick dog?'

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The Holy Family with a Bird , Murillo, painted 1650. I was in our parish church in Dublin this afternoon praying when I saw a young man of ...
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06 October 2011

The hand - or paw? - of God

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Lala and Hachi I don't know if St Bruno, the founder of the Carthusians and whose feast it is today, had a dog. I know I associate his...
17 November 2010

A saint who lived in a pigsty

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St Elizabeth of Hungary St Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), the patron saint of Franciscan Tertiaries (Secular Franciscans and members of...
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06 August 2009

Saint Cory Aquino?

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Listening to and watching Father Catalino Arevalo SJ giving the homily at the funeral Mass of Cory Aquino yesterday I realized that he was ...
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12 May 2009

Do we take oaths too easily?

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I learned just now from Catholic Culture that St Pancras, whom the Church honours today, is the patron saint of fidelity to oaths. he was m...
18 February 2009

Father Damien to be canonised. Too many founder-saints?

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Zenit reports that ten ‘blesseds’ will be canonised soon. The best known of the ten is Blessed Damien de Veuster SSCC (1840-1899), ‘Father ...
24 January 2009

Patron of Journalists and of the Deaf

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Today is the feast of St Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, patron of journalists and of the Deaf. So he is my ...
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22 January 2009

A Poem of Purity: Blessed Laura Vicuña

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Today is the feast of Blessed Laura Vicuña, a 12-year-old girl born in Chile on 5 April 1891 who died on this day in Argentina in 1904. I ca...
16 August 2008

'Above all things . . . preserve the Catholic, apostolic faith . . .'

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St Stephen of Hungary , c.969 - 15 August 1038. Today the Church honours St Stephen of Hungary, Szent István in Hungarian, though in the P...

'San Roque has his dog but I have my cat'.

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Today, 16 August, is a busy day for many priests in the Philippines, as it is the feast of San Roque or St Roch (Latin: Rochus; Catalan: Ro...
05 August 2008

New Bishop Inspired by Columbans

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NEW BISHOP INSPIRED BY COLUMBANS Yesterday Fr Gerardo A. Alminaza of the Diocese of Bacolod , Philippines, was ordained bishop in San Sebas...
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