All Hallows Eve, All Saints and All Souls

All Hallows Eve or better known as Halloween, starts these 3 days, ending the month of October and beginning November.  I love how these 3 Gospels speak of the Saints and the Souls recently deceased. Gospel  (Oct. 31) Lk 13:22-30 Jesus passed through towns and...

Feast of the Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael

I hope everyone has had a good week and is having a good weekend! I love this feast day along with Guardian Angels on Oct. 2!  I thought this was good for those who wonder who are the Archangels and how do we have names for them! Angels are celestial or heavenly...

Triumph of the Cross/Our Lady of Sorrows

Today we celebrated the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross! Reading 2 Phil 2:6-11 Brothers and sisters: Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,...

22nd Sunday in Ordianary Time

Hello Everyone and welcome to September! Gospel Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. —For the...

St. Monica and St. Augustine

Today we celebrate the memorial of St. Monica and tomorrow her son St. Augustine.  We know about St. Monica from her son St. Augustine.  I found this about the Saints at St. Francis media. Saint Monica’s Story The circumstances of Saint Monica’s life could have made...

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Weekend!  We are at the end of the day, the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal! (I apologize, it wouldn’t let me rotate the picture!) This was my dad’s medal.  He received it in Rome when Pope Pius XII...