Giovanni Battista Piamarta was born in Brescia, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (modern-day Italy) on November 26, 1840, into a poor family. His father was a barber, and his mother, a homemaker …
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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. Pope Pius XII instituted this feast in 1955 to let people know that the “May Day” celebrations of the …
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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the Second Sunday of Easter. It is also called Divine Mercy Sunday, a day when we celebrate the idea that God’s love and mercy have no …
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On September 15, 1864, while visiting the tomb of St. Peter in Rome, a young Italian priest with missionary heart came up with a plan to “Save Africa through Africa.” …
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The above is a photo of the altar area of the Church of Espíritu Santo (Holy Spirit) in the Reitocan community of Samalares Abajo. The photo was taken before the …
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Today, we celebrate Easter, the most exalted feast day of the year. In today’s Gospel reading from John, we read: “On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala …
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On the evening of Holy Saturday, Catholic Christians celebrate the most elaborate Mass of the year called the Easter Vigil Mass. This grand liturgy is special in many ways and …
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Today is Good Friday, the only day of the year when there is no Mass celebrated in Catholic churches. This is the day we commemorate the passion and death of …
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At the beginning of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper that we celebrate at sundown, Lent officially ends for Catholic Christians, and we enter the tiniest of the liturgical seasons …
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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the beginning of Holy Week. On this day, we read the following from the Gospel of St. Luke: After he …
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