Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Pope Sixtus V bestowed on Saint Bonaventure the title “Angelic and Seraphic Doctor of the Church” in recognition of his unfathomable love for God and outstanding theological writings.
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Pope Sixtus V bestowed on Saint Bonaventure the title “Angelic and Seraphic Doctor of the Church” in recognition of his unfathomable love for God and outstanding theological writings.
An exemplar of a couple whose depth of togetherness, in faith in and love for Christ, is Aquila and Priscilla. Saint Paul fondly called them “fellow workers in Christ Jesus.”
Peace means serenity, calmness, quietude or stillness. But during the early times when the rulers of countries desired to acquire foreign lands or settle disputes, they go on invasions and conquests. So peace is the absence of war.
All saints, except John, are honored on the day of their death. John is one of three church personalities who were honored by the church on their birthdays. John on June 24, the Blessed Mother on September 8 and Christ on December 25.
MAGDALENE’S passion: To be close to every person to discover and experience together the concern God has for life, and proclaim the goodness of God.
“Lord, who can grasp all of the wealth of just one of Your words? What we understand is much less than we leave behind, like thirsty people who drink from a fountain. For Your word, Lord, has many shades of meaning, just as those who study have many different points of view.
Mother Earth is man’s home. Thus, man ought to live in harmony with nature. The Celtics, Frisians and Saxons of Europe in the Middle Ages did not only take care of nature. They revered, worshipped and performed devotional rituals to honor trees.
Magdalene is an “ecstatic saint.” She desired a “hidden life,” but her mystical experiences or religious ecstasies lasted for years.
After Saint Dymphna’s death, some lunatics wandered in the countryside of Gheel in Belgium. They slept there and woke up cured. Since then she was called the “patron saint of people afflicted with mental and spiritual afflictions” (Saint Dymphna, www.saint-mike.org). Many miracles were recorded at her shrine in Gheel.
One October morning, passing through Borgo Alto, Mary saw a large building with a courtyard. Many children were playing.
‘IN this city one finds many very important pious and charitable works. However, there is one great need, and that is a hospital or a house where the innocent, the poor and the mad can be cared for. There are many such people wandering this city.”
“A househelp is not holy if she is not busy. Lazy people of our position is fake holiness,” Saint Zita said.
The sheep is an animal that cannot survive on its own. It is a species with an “intelligence quotient close to the bottom of the scale,” said David Murray in HeadHeartHand.
On April 16, 1783, a Holy Wednesday, Benedict Joseph Labre dragged himself to Saint Maria dei Monte, the cardinalatial titular church in Rome, where he heard Mass every morning.
Today is the Feast of the Divine Mercy. It was instituted in obedience to the Lord’s instruction to Saint Faustina Kowalska.
EASTER is derived from the word Eostre, the pagan goddess of the season of the sun and rebirth during Ostarum, a pagan spring festival. It was a spring of the nomad Jews, who coated their tent poles with blood of animals to frighten hostile spirits.
At early morning on the first day of the week while still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb of Jesus. She carried burial clothes and spices so Jesus can be buried properly in accordance with Jewish custom.
Many people in Nazareth and other places where Mosaic Law, or Law of Moses, was observed died with Joseph. God made known this fact to Joseph who wished to carry out his assignment as Patron of The Dying.
Saint Paul is one of the two pillars of the church together with Saint Peter, the first pope. While in prison, Paul wrote to Timothy to express his firmness in faith even in adverse situations: “I have fought the good fight to the end. I have run the race to the finish. I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:6-7). Good is an understatement, for Paul lived his life only for Christ after his conversion.
Ash Wednesday is a ritual of truth. The priest makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of everyone on the queue. He tells each one: “For you are dirt and to dirt you shall return” (Genesis 3:19). Simply said: Man is a corruptible being.
Francisco and his younger sister, Jacinta, with their cousin, Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, have walked on holy grounds at Cova da Iria, saw and spoke with the Angel of Peace thrice in the fields of Casa Velha, spoke several times with the Blessed Mother on the holm tree at Cova da Iria and witnessed the miracle of the sun at Fatima.
The beautiful Lady of Lourdes, Bernadette Soubirous, the hallowed cave on a huge cliff of Massabielle at the foothills of Pyrenees mountain range, which separate France and Spain—these will forever be associated with the celebrated appearances of the Blessed Mother in 1858.
There are children with faces only a mother can love for beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, according to Margaret Hungerford. Too, true beauty consists in purity of heart, Mahatma Gandhi said.
The family is the bedrock of society. In this smallest unit of social group, a child is familiarized about moral absolutes. He or she learns how to love and be loved, that life is great with a purpose and a holy end.
Dismal and pathetic it was to be a woman before the advent of Christianity. Dreary and frightful, as well. In societies where husbands enjoy patria protestas (paternal power) as head of a family or families, they had the power of life and death over their wives and children.
Tabula rasa is a theory of knowledge and psychology that compare the mind to a blank writing tablet which “responds to ideas and convert them to knowledge.” Akin to a white paper full of awareness, it receives ideas from senses and responds to experiences.
Millions of Filipinos venerate the Poong Itim na Nazareno (Black Nazarene), a life-sized statue of Jesus fallen under the weight of the cross on his way to calvary.
New Year’s Day was celebrated on March 25 in the Early Medieval period in Christian Europe. The feast, called Lady Day in England, is the start of the Legal Year until 1752.
There was nothing extraordinary on the first Christmas Eve. God, though, did not make it so ordinary.
An old European folklore narrates that Jesus was born at the stroke of midnight on December 25. To the rooster was assigned the honorable task of announcing Jesus’ birth. So, the rooster flies to the roof of the stable to proclaim “in a human voice—Christ is born.”
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