Clayton Fountain committed five brutal premeditated murders. Four of them took place behind the walls of the highest security prison in the US. Advocates of re-socialization threw their hands up in despair. Lawyers demanded the death penalty saying that no one ...
One of the most frequently repeated propaganda techniques used against the Catholic Church through the ages was and is the attempt to morally compromise the Catholic clergy, especially those who choose to live by radical virtues and the counsel of ...
The news coming from Iraq and Syria is alarming. It stirs us to prayer and reflection, but also to action. We received a letter from a Christian Egyptian reader who went to Iraq to help suffering followers of Christ. Unexpectedly, ...
Jesus continually reminds us of the necessity of persevering in prayer: “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who ...
The Lebanese scientist Raymond Nader had a mystical experience of the Real Presence of God. It took place on 10 November 1994, in the hermitage of St Sharbel in Annaya. On the evening of 17 April 2015, at the shrine ...
St Sharbel is a great mystery for the world of science, and for all of us an evident sign pointing to the existence of God. 117 years have passed since the death of this Lebanese hermit, but his body is ...
We know that in the heart of every man there is a deep-rooted yearning for love and never-ending happiness. Through this yearning, the loving God calls on us to strive with all our might for perfect happiness or unite with ...
A Christian acknowledges that everything good comes from God. Humility means siding with the truth; it is the realisation that what I have is a gift from God and mine are only sin and misery. The opposite of humility is ...
Marriage as an institution was designed by God at the moment of the creation of man. Jesus Christ raised it to the dignity of a sacrament. Marriage is meant to reflect the essence of the Triune God, who is inseparable ...
Here, we begin to publish extracts from the directions given by Jesus and written down by the mystic Alicja Lenczewska in her spiritual diary Testimony. † Most people neither hear me nor notice me. They are busy with ceremony, their ...
Only a person with a pure heart is capable of love. And a pure heart means abiding in a state of grace; it is a relationship of love with God and other people. A necessary condition for persevering in love ...
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an objective historical fact that happened in a specific place and time. Any attempts to question it are an ideological speculation, having no foundation in reality. The Resurrection of Jesus concerns each of us ...
When I work with couples, I compare my work to a detective’s investigation. Sometimes one word spoken at the end of the visit is key, sometimes a deep analysis of the patient’s history is necessary. Currently, there is a steady ...
She greeted her patients with a smile. She would touch their bodies without using gloves. And when asked about the most effective medicine, she would answer that it is vitamin L, that is to say, love. This is how Wanda ...
I entered the crowd of pilgrims. It was hot. We sang a beautiful litany during which I fervently asked St. Sharbel to heal me from my anxiety. I had been struggling with panic attacks for seven years. I had previously ...
“Four kilometers to the bus stop, four kilometers to the phone. Poverty – poverty and loneliness … Beautiful place. Not even a party secretary nor a Komsomol member” – this is how Father Stanislovas remembered his beginnings in Paberžė (Lithuania). ...
In 2001 and 2008, in the Parish of Our Lady Queen of the Apostles in Ełk (northeast Poland), in which Perpetual Adoration has continued for 20 years, two spectacular miracles of physical healing took place through the intercession of St. Stanisław ...
In primary and junior high school, I got into the sin of impurity and marijuana. At first, I did not regard masturbation as a sin. I thought I wasn’t harming anybody, so there was no reason to confess it. In ...
Father Rafael Rodríguez is the parish priest of the Parish of Santo Cristo del Calvario in Marbella, Spain, where the Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Eucharist has been held for the last five years. This priest shares with the ...
My husband and I always thought of our marriage as ideal: from our time in the university, we had been active members of prayer groups and we were close to God. But after a while, we lost our zeal. We ...