Saint Angela Merici’s story Franciscan Media 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…
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27th
January 27 The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent…
Conversion of Saint Paul January 25th
The Story of the Conversion of Saint Paul Saint Paul’s entire life can be explained in terms of one experience—his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus. In an instant, he saw that all the zeal of his dynamic personality was being wasted, like the strength of a boxer swinging wildly. Perhaps he had…
climate, migration, peace, racial justice, democracy, the dignity of human life
What a balm for the soul of the weary justice advocate is found in the readings for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Whatever issue compels you—climate, migration, peace, racial justice, democracy, the dignity of human life—there will be times of great discouragement. This might be one of those times right now. How can those…
January 22 Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world. Through special initiatives and in daily prayer, may an impassioned plea rise to God, the Creator and lover of life, from every Christian community, from every group and association, from every family and from the heart of every…
Day 4
9 Days for Life God has carefully, tenderly created every person in His own image and likeness, to be in a loving relationship with Himself. From each tiny child knit within a mother’s womb, to every person approaching death, all are loved perfectly and completely by God: “It is therefore a service of love which we…