As we continue in our Novena to St. Michael, let us not forget Our Lady of Mercy, who is connected with St. Michael as Queen of Angels and depicted in the section on Christ’s Birth and in the section about the Flight into Egypt.
As usual with Our Lady, She has appeared over time in different places and to different individuals in Her Role as Our Lady of Mercy.
As early as 1280, She ...
Our beautiful, inspirational saint started life on an air base, appropriate for a person whose soul flew to Heaven within while she was yet on earth. She was born Elizabeth Catez on July 18, 1880. Her army officer father died when Elizabeth was seven. That same year, she made her first Confession and discovered that Her Father in heaven was merciful. Although she had been a proud, hot-temper...
St. Thérèse's of Lisieux was a discalced Carmelite nun, known as "The Little Flower of Jesus" or simply, "The Little Flower." She was one of nine children. Her parents were Saints Louis and Zelie Martin.
Born January 2, 1873, Thérèse felt an early call to religious life, and a the age of 15, joined her two older sisters in the cloistered ...
The deeper a soul is bound to God, the more completely surrendered to grace, the stronger will be its influence on the form of the church. Conversely, the more an era is engulfed in the night of sin and estrangement from God the more it needs souls united to God.
- St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born Jewish, lapsed into atheism, and ...
- To be prayed from August 1st to the 9th -
Dear Friends,
Please join with us in this novena to Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross. We ask that you join your personal intentions with that of our community and that you repeat these listed below aloud before your prayers on each day of the novena:
The hearts of each member of the Apostoli Viae community, especially those who recent...
We've been walking the desert sands with Jesus the past few weeks, reflecting upon our own sinfulness and doing what we can to make reparation for our sins and the sins of others.
This Sunday, however, the Church shifts our focus from ourselves and our sinfulness to Jesus and His Passion.
Today, we celebrate Passion Sunday, the beginning of Passiontide.
Dom Prosper Gueranger says ...
Carmelites in the News: Pope Francis has recognized a miracle attributed to Carmelite Sister Ana de Jesús, a spiritual daughter of St. Teresa of Ávila and a friend to St. John of the Cross. Let's pray for a second miracle and for her canonization.
In 1570, Ana de Jesus joined the Monastery of St. Joseph, founded by St. Teresa as the first establishment of the Carmelite refo...
We humans have an itch for knowledge and power. It seems to be in our DNA. In many areas of life, we are well-served by the restless striving for a better handle on things, all sorts of things--career choices, professional advancement, family relationships, concord with the neighbors, right down to eliminating weeds in the garden and getting better gas mileage. Knowledge and power, in themselve...
