An essential element of Religious Life is knowing the Founder of the Religious Order or Congregation and the specific charism, spirituality, or physiognomy they have transmitted. Every specific Religious must make a concerted effort to be faithful to the writings, the teachings, and the spirituality left by their Founder. This is also expressed in these words: “Being faithful to the charism of one’s Order!”

FOUNDATIONS/FOUNDERS. Orders as well as Congregations have Founders, raised up by the Holy Spirit often to address or remedy a certain need in the Church. One of the best examples in the past 200 years … Read more

Maybe you have seen a woman walking down the street or most probably in Church dressed in a Religious habit, perhaps with a veil covering her head, and maybe with a Rosary at her side. All the above point to the person of a Religious Woman, a Sister—commonly we call her a Nun, and you might even call her Sister or Mother! Then it most likely has happened that you saw a man in a car, or a bus, or in the subway with a long black robe, with or without a white-plastic clip covering his neck, perhaps fingering Rosary … Read more

The great Prophet of the modern-epoch, Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen stated that historically the Church goes through a crisis about every 500 years.  The Church battled through Christological heresies, the separation of the Eastern Orthodox Church from Rome, and the Protestant Reformation. Presently the Church is traversing an exceedingly painful period in the public Church Scandals that seem to be rocking the Church to its very foundation. Indeed, many, especially the very weak and vulnerable, are exiting the Church in considerable numbers. For what they have seen and heard, and what some have witnessed at close range. Nobody can … Read more

From the cross, Jesus gave the person He loved most on earth, His Blessed Mother Mary, to Saint John and to us, as our Mother most holy! May we strive to know Mary, to love Mary, and to imitate Mary a little more every day. In his Marian Spiritual Masterpiece, True Devotion to Mary, Saint Louis de Montfort highlights ten of the most important virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Let us put forth this list of Mary’s principal virtues.

We read in the text of True Devotion to Mary (#108): Third, true devotion to our Lady is … Read more

BIBLICAL PASSAGES POINTING TO THE EUCHARIST…

One of the many channels that can be utilized to augment our faith, devotion, and love for the greatest of all Sacraments, the most Holy Eucharist, is by reading and meditating upon key Biblical passages, both in the Old Testament as well as in the New Testament. The Old Testament presents symbols or what Bible scholars term Types, Biblical Typology of references or allusions to the Eucharist that become a reality in the New Testament. In other words, what is present in hidden, mysterious, and symbolic form in the Old Testament breaks out in … Read more