The election of the successor of St. Peter will be decided by 133 Cardinals from 71 countries across five continents who will be following a centuries-old process filled with prayer, deliberation, and very strict rules.
May 5
“And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed; just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
May 4
“The world doesn’t need what woman have, it needs what women are.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
May 3
“Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural maternal yearning.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
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.
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