We usually consider the life of a nun as quietly routine. The life of Bl. Augustina of the Thouret Sisters of Charity was anything but quiet, anything but routine. It reads as melodramatically as the … Read More
Blessed Frederic Ozanam Biography (II)
A Christian Prophet Frederic Ozanam’s Charisma According to the Bible, a prophet is one inspired by God who speaks out with powerful, disturbing words in times of difficulty, distress or upheaval. These words are capable … Read More
Blessed Frederic Ozanam Biography (I)
To beatify someone does not mean to erect a statue of the person. On the contrary, according to the Latin etymology (beatificare = beatum facere), it means “to make happy”. Indeed, in beatifying Frederic Ozanam, … Read More
Life of Felix de Andreis. Chapter 12 [End]
WE may truly say, and all those who knew Father De Andreis most intimately can bear witness to our words, that the continual business of his life was to die to himself by means of … Read More
Life of Felix de Andreis. Chapter 11
THE virtue of Christian simplicity leads man directly to God, with the pure and straight-forward intention of glorifying him, while seeking to avoid all duplicity in dealing with the neighbor. This was the virtue inculcated … Read More
Life of Felix de Andreis. Chapter 10
The reader has been able to form some idea of the sanctity of the servant of God, both from the letters we have transcribed, and the testimony of enlightened priests, who knew him intimately and … Read More
Life of Felix de Andreis. Chapter 09
WE mean by interior life that constant duty to which the servant of God so thoroughly applied himself to remove from his soul every imperfection, for the one object of becoming completely agreeable to God. … Read More
Blessed Michael Ghebre: “The truth will make you free”
“Truth! What is that?” We are all very familiar with the context in which that question was asked in the New Testament. We are also aware of the fact that the questioner did not wait … Read More
Life of Felix de Andreis. Chapter 08
IN his letters to Rome, addressed to the Vicar General of the Congregation of the Mission, Father De Andreis frequently expressed his desire of being set free from the bonds of earth, in order to … Read More
Life of Felix de Andreis. Chapter 07
IN the early days of the nineteenth century a colony of Catholics settled at Perryville in Perry County, Mo., about eighty miles south of St. Louis. Nearly all the land in this county was covered … Read More