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March 25 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. Luke 1:30-31 The Annunciation, da Vinci, c. 1475 Happy New Year! Up until 1752, March 25th was the first day of the New Year in much of the English-speaking world. It was also known as Lady …Read more 
March 19 St. Joseph In New Orleans, Carnival season doesn’t end with Mardi Gras, it just gets going. On the heels of the Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day comes St. Joseph’s Day, one of the biggest celebrations of the year. Saint Joseph is the Patron Saint of Italy; he’s particularly revered in Sicily, where prayers to the saint are believed to have ended a deadly drought in the Middle Ages. His Feast Day is celebrated by …Read more 
February 22, 2012 Ash Wednesday, by Carl Spitzweg, ca. 1855 Don’t tell your co-worker he has dirt on his face; he’s been told this a dozen times already today, and it’s not dirt. The ashes on his forehead, resembling the shape of a cross, most likely come from palms that were burned last year after Palm Sunday and were blessed by a priest. On the morning of Ash Wednesday, Catholic priests and some Protestant ministers mark their parishioners foreheads …Read more 
February 10 Shipwreck of St. Paul, the Vatican Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale A tale of a fateful trip That started from Judean port Aboard a Roman Ship. The weather started getting rough, The Roman ship was tossed. Because of the sermons of the fearless Paul Not a single life was lost. They splashed about for 14 days, No sight of sun nor star. Until they crashed …Read more 
January 17
And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that it was good. – Genesis 1:25 Before there was Doctor Dolittle, there was St. Anthony Abad, patron saint of the animal kingdom. St. Anthony the Hermit, or St. Anthony the Great, was born in Egypt in 251 AD and lived …Read more 
January 3 St. Genevieve of Paris Today is St. Genevieve’s feast day. She’s honored as the Patron Saint of Paris. St. Genevieve became a nun at the tender age of 15 and devoted the rest of her life—another 65 years—to Christ. The secret of her longevity may have been her diet. She didn’t eat much more than barley bread and beans, and according to her biography, only twice a week, Sundays and Thursdays. She loosened this …Read more 
December 25 Behold! the angels said, ‘Oh Mary! God gives you glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter, and in (the company of) those nearest to God. – Qur’an 3:45 Nativity, Gerard von Honthorst (1590-1656) Today we celebrate Jesus Christ’s 2011th birthday. Actually, no. We don’t know the year Jesus was born. But it’s believed he …Read more 
December 12
“…one may no longer consider himself a Christian, but you cannot truly be considered a Mexican unless you believe in the Virgin of Guadalupe.” – Carlos Fuentes It’s been said that Mexico came into being not in 1821–the year Spain recognized its independence–but nearly 300 years earlier, in 1531, when a recently widowed peasant-farmer named Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, beheld the most spectacular vision in Mexican history. Guadalupe On December 9, …Read more |
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