“A man’s character is shown by the books that he reads.” -Fr. Lasance (My Prayer Book) With the joy of Christmas continuing through the New
“The custom of saying three Masses on this day is also very ancient, and recalls to our minds the threefold birth of the Second Person
All Catholics should know of St. Alphonsus Liguori’s (1696-1787) famous Christmas hymn he penned as a young priest entitled, Tu Scendi dale Stelle. The song
“Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, O God, thou perfected praise because of thine enemies. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy
“For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon His shoulder: and His name shall
“And thou, Bethlehem Ephrata [fruitful, honored], art a little one among the thousands of Juda: out of thee shall he come forth unto me that
Below is an inspiring sermon delivered by Saint Francis de Sales for Midnight Mass, December 25, 1622. Highlights include: The great Christian feasts in the
Released in November 1990, in time for the Thanksgiving and holiday theater-rush, the film Home Alone became an instant Christmas classic. It was a box-office
The Ark of the Covenant was a wood box about four-feet long and two and a half-feet wide. The word “ark” comes from the Hebrew
” Yet neither Nazareth nor Bethlehem were his beginnings. He was eternal years old the moment he was born. “ -Fr. Frederick Faber Below is a
Below is an excerpt from a brief, but interesting sermon that was delivered by Saint Francis de Sales to a convent of nuns on Christmas
The sacredness of the priesthood should be a penetrating reality for your child. Such unworthy men, stepping into the In Persona Christi, consecrating the bread
Advent is here and soon enough Christmas will be upon us! It has always been the aim of the Church to cause her children to
When all is said and done, it’s all about good and evil. Those, like Nietzsche, who say otherwise are themselves evil. And, as Solzhenitsyn reminds
In 1871, on the same night as the Great Chicago Fire, America’s most destructive wildfire swept through Wisconsin. People searched for safety in wells and
Below is an excerpt from a new TAN classic, The Enemies of Salvation: the Flesh, the World, and the Devil by Bishop George Hay, a
On the night before Our Lord suffered and died, He took comfort in the consolation offered by His beloved disciple, St. John the Evangelist, who
You pray for your child. You help him pray his innocent little prayers at bedtime. You wish for him to grow into a healthy, happy
“In the moment when the newborn child [Mary] lay in the arms of her holy mother Anna, I saw that at the same time the
“The influence of the classical tradition is even more clearly discernible in the rise of the new Christian poetry.” -Christopher Dawson The Catholic Church has
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