Doctor of the Church. Mystic. Saint. Teresa of Avila is one of the greatest women in the Church ... so on her feast day, Oct. 15, what can she tell us ordinary Catholics? Brother Stephen Camara, MIC, explains.
On this Solemnity of St. Joseph, ask St. Joseph to guide you in all of your ways, just as he guided the Child Jesus who “was obedient to [him]” and thus “advanced [in] wisdom and age and favor before God and man” (Lk. 2:51-2).
“The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, and she conceived by the Holy Spirit.” The whole mystery of Jesus’ Incarnation is contained in this sentence of the beautiful prayer recited three times daily.
Christmas cannot be “stolen.” Christ has already come. That event cannot be reversed, even if some people deny its importance, even if more behave as though God does not exist, even if we Christians “do not yet see all things subject to Him” (Heb 2:8).
Saint Martin of Tours reflects concretely into our day the virtues of peace and charity. He never compromised on the truth, but was always careful to love the sinner even as he condemned the sin.
