Lots of people probably saw this article but I still love it. https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/how-the-formula-1-pit-stop-has-saved-thousands-of-babies Basically, around 2001 doctors in neonatal intensive care units in London realized that they were losing babies after surgery to transfer procedures from the operating room to the intensive care unit. After watching a Formula 1 race in Italy they were impressed [...]
Saint Ephrem or Ephraim was a deacon in the early church, living in Turkey during the 4th century. His prayers were so beautiful that he was called "the harp of the Holy Spirit." Here is one of his prayers from the Psaltery of Saint Ephraim (95). Praise God in the morning, ye children of the [...]
The First Reading at Mass today is from the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 16: 22-34. Paul on his missionary journeys was arrested, beaten, and jailed in Philippi. He and his companions were in Philippi, a city in Macedonia, because Paul received a vision begging him to come and preach the gospel in Macedonia. He [...]
Yesterday, August 28, was the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Lots of people wrote about him but what I loved was the many pictures gracing the articles. The picture where he catches his heart in his hand, and it has caught fire from the Holy Spirit made me laugh. Saint Augustine, oil on canvas [...]
I still remember sitting in a classroom after school for a ‘sodality’ meeting. I don’t remember which one. Which sodality, I mean. I doubt if I even knew at the time that there’s more than one. I would have been perhaps ten years old. Not any older and quite possibly younger. The moderator asked me [...]
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