Semper Fi Catholic

The whole of the Christian life can be likened to a pilgrimage, and our food for the journey is the nourishment we receive in Holy Communion.

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/202 ... -santiago/

Christian martyr and saint. Tortured in the amphitheater at Lyons in 177 ce. Blandina was a female slave who, during the persecution of the Christians, was brought into the amphitheater at Lyons in 177 to be put to death. Along with Biblis, Pothinus, Maturus, Sanctus, Ponticus, Attalus, and other ma...

"If you wish to come where I am going, that is, to glory, you must come down this road, that is, through thorns."

Instead of offering things up at the foot of the cross I catch myself grumbling at times.

The ground is so saturated that when I got out and walk on the yard it is like walking on a wet sponge. They are predicting this kind of weather throughout June.

Appreciate it Marie!

And then there is mental prayer, lol.

Angela Merici has the double distinction of founding the first of what are now called “secular institutes” and the first teaching order of women in the Church. Born in Desenzano, Italy, she was orphaned in her teens. As a young woman, with her heart centered on Christ, Angela joined the Third Order ...

"The love which our Blessed Lady had for God was so great, that she suffered keenly through her desire of union with Him; hence the Eternal Father, to console her, sent her His only and beloved Son."

St. Mechtildis was born around 1125 in Bavaria. Here parents were Count Berthold of Andechs and Sophia. When Mechtildis was five, her parents placed her in the Monastery they had founded on their estate at Diessen, Bavaria. The Nuns brought her up, and Mechtildis grew up to be a devout and prayerful...

"Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: Obedience! Humility! Detachment!"

Please remember Pamela Slayter in your prayers. She passed away Monday.

Police and fire chaplains in Carlsbad, California have been ordered to stop praying in the name of Jesus.

https://www.toddstarnes.com/faith/chapl ... -of-jesus/

Burned at the stake as a heretic after a politically-motivated trial, Joan was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. Born of a fairly well-to-do peasant couple in Domremy-Greux southeast of Paris, Joan was only 12 when she experienced a vision and heard voices that she later identified as Saints ...

"A virtuous life consists in mortifying vices, sins, bad thoughts, and evil affections, and in exercising ourselves in the acquisition of holy virtues."