All Saints signifies all people at all time who have professed and witnessed to faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. It includes those who have gone before
All Saints 2023
Lake Como
Lake Como
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Dr. Michael Brescia could have been one of the richest doctors in the United States. Instead he chose to be one of the holiest. His Sicilian grandfather taught him that
XXIX Sunday in OT
October 23, 2024
Francesca Severino Cabrini, like her patron St. Francis Xavier, wanted to bring the liberation ofthe gospel to the east. Her frail health foiled her plans to enter the Daughters of
The Good Fruit
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 8, 2023
Colico, Lecco Italy
Fr. Andrew O’Connor
The Peak of Disgrace
by Fr. Andrew O'Connor
Who in your serviceCan but colors makeWhich from their effectsAnd not their substance takeThe form of time. Service such as these AlpineMountains may billowAnd shake out towns,Vineyards and potatoes,Apples and
Saint Mary Youth Trip to Rome
July 2022
Obiter Dictum
(by the way)
A rooster and a goose fought at the Battle of Hastings
and they had a swan. They both rejected their progeny…
A Tuscan Résumé
Pilgrimage of beauty and a feast of history
Fifty years ago, the Southern poet Allen Tate remarked in an important essay on the symbolic imagination that America is as dependent on a diminished Europe as ancient Rome was on a diminished Greece…
