by Theresa Cavicchio, OFSDuring these early weeks following the death of Pope Francis, the May 1st Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker provides a particularly fitting opportunity this year to turn to the Holy Father’s own teaching on the beloved, saintly foster father of Jesus.
Dating has come a long way from boy-meets-girl at local diner. Now it’s online dating, Tinder and . . . crystals?
May 1
“To be a mother is to nourish and protect true humanity and bring it to development.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
April 30
“Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Another study claiming that the long-term practice of transcendental meditation (TM) can do everything from bring down crime rates to slow aging is once again making the news – and it’s raising the same questions that have plagued this theory for decades.
Since we began this blog in 2009, I can’t tell you how many times we have received mail from people asking us to show them where we can find a prohibition against yoga, Reiki, and other New Age practices in Scripture. Because it’s not there (of course), the person feels that it is safe to assume no prohibition exists.
April 29
“Leaders are magnanimous in their dreams, visions, and sense of mission; in their capacity for hope, confidence, and daring; in their enthusiasm for the effort required to bring their work to a successful conclusion; in their capacity to challenge themselves and those around them.”
-Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership
April 27
"Between women and God is often arranged the eternal salvation of husbands and sons. But for this she must be valiant. Strong to uphold purity of life. Strong to keep inviolate the treasure of faith. Strong in every battle of life. Great-souled in the face of calamity, persecution and death. And remember, sorrow is the training ground of strong souls.”
-St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
April 26
"Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls’ education.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
