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Today, the Church honors the memory of a saint from Latin America: Martin de Porres. He’s the patron saint of interracial justice because in his own body, he reconciled the black race and the white race.
Today is All Souls Day, day when the Church prayerfully remembers all of the faithful departed. Having honored all saints yesterday, today we pray for those who have died and may not have been perfect at the time of death.
Today, the Church celebrates the feast of All Saints. It is also the first day of a month dedicated to prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Let us pray for the souls of the faithful departed so they may soon be with the saints in heaven.
The Christian faith arose out of the faith of Israel, the people God chose to reveal Himself to, the people God chose as the race from which he would take flesh. Thus, Jesus good Jew that he was grew up in the atmosphere and the faith of Israel.
On September 27, 1992, Pope St. John Paul II beatified 17 Irish martyrs including a Jesuit brother named Dominic Collins. Dominic was born in the year 1566, and when he was 20, he went to France to become a soldier.
Halloween means All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day when we honor all the hallowed or holy people of every time and place. But few people think about that now. Now, Halloween is about ghosts and vampires and other things that are not spirit...
Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude. St. Simon is also called the Zealot, to distinguish him from Simon Peter. We know St. Jude as the patron saint of hopeless cases.
In St. Paul’s letter to the Romans 8:28, he says “that all things work for good for those who love God.” We see this in nature. God uses the dead leaves to fertilize the soil for new life.
Today’s reading from the eighth chapter of St. Paul to the Romans has a particularly beautiful image. He writes: “We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now; and not only that, but we ourselves,
October is the month dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary. It’s also known as respect life month, and yesterday was the feast of a great respecter of life; St. Luigi Guanella. He was canonized in 2013.