Saints and Feasts

There are some saints with whom you instantly connect. We all have them. Saint Teresa of Avila is one of them for me. Saint Teresa passed away on the night of the 4th of October 1582 but is celebrated today, the 15th of October, due to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar as a replacement to the Julian calendar in Spain that year, which caused all days from October 5th (included) to be skipped until October 15th. Teresa therefore died on a day that never existed. Saint

“Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via , as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.” If we reflect on the 19th-century’s English theology, we can meet with many different names. However, the most outstanding is the name of Saint John Henry Newman, who spent the fir

As today (October 1st) is the feast day of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as Thérèse of the Child Jesus, or the Little Flower, we...

"...most merciful and most just,utterly hidden and utterly present, most beautiful and most strong..., suffering no change and changing...