June 26
“How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I’ve received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux
Yearly Archives: 2018
SCOTUS Gives Embattled Christian Florist New Hope for Justice
The U.S. Supreme Court has directed the case of floral artist, Barronelle Stutzman, who refused to bake a cake for a friend’s same sex wedding, back to the Washington Supreme Court after vacating that court’s decision and instructing it to reconsider her lawsuit in light of the high court’s recent decision regarding Colorado baker, Jack Phillips.
She Found Jesus in a New Age Temple
By Patti Armstrong
Sitting lotus style, inhaling the cool lake air and listening to the serene sounds of a flowing waterfall, Jess Echeverry sought to calm her spirit. She was on a journey to healing at the Self-Realization Fellowship Temple in Pacific Palisades, California. By 2006, Jess had experienced a certain amount of healing, but there was still a hole that hungered to be filled.
A Catholic Response to Uncivil Discourse in America
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
If there was ever a time for Catholics to take a stand against the uncivil discourse gripping the nation these days, it’s now. After a weekend that saw a member of the Trump administration refused dinner in a restaurant simply because of who she works for, and a member of the U.S. Congress openly calling for harassment of all members of the President’s Cabinet, we need to let our faith find a way to put the brakes on this rampant incivility before someone gets killed.
Being Catholic
June 25
“If you’re a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.”
– Flannery O’Connor
Prepare the Way of the Lord!
June 24
Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist
“Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.”
-Matthew 3:3
The Pharisees I see
June 23
“My daughter, I see more Pharisees among the Christians than there were
around Pilate.”
-St. Margaret of Cortona
What God Wills
June 22
Feast of St. Thomas More
“Do not let your mind by troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I am very sure that whatever that be, however bad it may seem, it shall indeed be best.”
-St. Thomas More to his daughter
during his imprisonment
Teen’s Dying Wish is to End Abortion
Jeremiah Thomas, a 16-year-old teen on fire for Christ, found out last year that he was dying of terminal cancer, but that isn’t stopping him from achieving his life’s desire – an end to abortion.
To be made straight
June 21
Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga
“I am but a crooked piece of iron and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance.“
-St. Aloysius Gonzaga
