Cult to Dona Lucilia? – Not Only Licit, But Also Recommended

The reputation of sanctity is a mysterious action of the Holy Spirit by which a believer receives the inner prompting to pray through the intercession of another baptized person. Having obtained the desired favour from Providence, he shares his joy by communicating to others the unsuspected intercessory power of this or that living or deceased person.

St. Anthony of Padua – the smiling … and fighter of heresies!

We will never understand the spirituality of St. Anthony of Padua without viewing it from an essential and ever-present aspect of existence in this valley of tears: struggle, combat and suffering. It was the year 1221. In the austere Franciscan convent of Forli, Italy, some sons of St. Francis and St. Dominic had gathered for […]