Why We Must Walk With Saints
The month of November is punctuated by a number of important feast days in the Roman calendar, beginning with All Saints Day. It has long been a pious Catholic custom of naming people, places...
Category: Saints
Domitilla and Danny Hyams: SA Couple on the Path to Sainthood
By Daluxo Moloantoa – In a first for the Catholic Church in South Africa, a local couple has been given the status of Servants of God by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in the...
Archbishop Sheen Will Be Beatified On December 21
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced. He said the Vatican had just notified him of the beatification and he was announcing the news “with...
Veteran Says ‘Little Flower’ Kept Him Alive During Months Of Bombing Runs
By Dave Hrbacek – A German Messerschmitt fighter plane was bearing down on Don Stoliel’s B-17 bomber as he flew a mission during World War II. Stoliel, the pilot, looked out the windshield of his...
The Feast of All Saints Africa
Ss Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus. Prayer Saints Perpetua and Felicity, watch over all mothers and children who...
Pope adds Feast of Our Lady of Loreto to Universal Calendar
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis has approved adding the December 10 feast of Our Lady of Loreto to all calendars and liturgical books for the celebration of the Mass and the Liturgy of...
Celebrating St Francis at St Francis Parish, Vanderbijlpark!
St Francis of Assisi parish in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, celebrated St Francis’ feast day starting with Mass said by parish priest Fr Tony Thouard OFM together with OFM provincial Fr Sphelele Gwanisheni and Fr Paddy Noonan...
No Plaster Saints: God Gives Grace to Live Holy Lives, Pope says
By Cindy Wooden – The saints were flesh-and-blood people whose lives included real struggles and joys, and whose holiness reminds all the baptized that they, too, are called to be saints, Pope Francis said....
We Are Saints
Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton Celebrating the memory of the great saints of the Church is an annual time to be happy, as it is on All Saints Day, which in South Africa is...
The Beatitudes: The Path to Sainthood!
You are called by God to be a saint! And that all important calling from the Lord is not just to be seriously considered on All Saints Day – but every day! It is...
The Feast of All Saints Reflection
The other disciple also went into the tomb and saw the cloth which had covered Jesus head lying nearby, neatly folded….and he believed! Why did he believe when he saw this cloth neatly folded?...
Kindly Lights in Gloomy World: Pope declares five new saints
By Cindy Wooden – Saints are people who recognised their need for God’s help, who took risks to discover God’s will and to help others and who nurtured a habit of thanksgiving, Pope Francis said....
