Dear Fellow Catholic

02/09/2025

08/08/2025

Founder of the Dominicans

14/07/2025

They passed each other on a bridge one spring day — a distinguished, reserved, hardworking watchmaker who had tried and failed to become a monk and a lovely, intelligent, productive lacemaker who had been turned away by the Vincentian sisters. When St. Zélie first laid eyes on St. Louis she heard an interior voice, one that she had learned to trust, say, This is he whom I have prepared for you.

Their life together began on July 12, 1858 — a date remembered by the Church as the feast day of the first husband and wife canonized as a couple.

In their 19 happy years of marriage, Sts. Louis and Zélie ran a successful lacemaking business in Alençon, Louis having given up his trade to help his wife in hers. They had nine children, all of whom they baptized within days of their birth. When they lost four of their children, to childhood illnesses and the negligence of wet-nurses, since Zèlie was not able to breastfeed her children, they placed their hope in seeing them again in Heaven.

Louis and Zélie were very careful to raise their surviving children with virtuous habits. Zélie would pray about and examine the faults and strengths of each child and foster them into holiness.

They sought holiness through the devotions and traditions of the Church. They never worked on Sunday and were very generous with their time and money towards the poor. They always prayed for the souls of those who had died. The couple went every morning to 5:30 a.m. Mass and were very faithful to making First Friday Communion.

Both husband and wife ended their years of devotion on earth, by bearing their own crosses of great suffering.

Zélie: ‘I wish that you would not worry too much about me, and that you will be resigned to the will of God...’

After her death, Louis lived on to raise his daughters.‘It is the beauty of family life that comes nearest to Heaven.’

Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin were beatified in 2008 and canonized in 2015.Their feast day is July 12.”

21/06/2025

First Holy Communion in Qaraqosh, Iraq.

12/06/2025

The DNA of the Holy Eucharist

08/06/2025

Welcome! Dear Holy Spirit.
Our greatest friend.

06/02/2025

As of February 1, Archbishop Lwanga of the Archdiocese of Kampala in Uganda has forbidden the reception of Holy Communion in the hand in his archdiocese.

“Due to many reported instances of dishonoring the Eucharist that have been associated with reception of the Eucharist in the hands, it is fitting to return to the more reverent method of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue."

©Andrew R. moore

24/11/2024

CHRIST THE KING

13/11/2024

Someone posted thus:

“Follow your heart” has ended more marriages, mutilated more bodies, destroyed more souls, and ended more lives than the devil could ever have imagined. It’s hell’s most effective slogan yet."

I'm still reflecting on this.

📷deborah ocheido

01/11/2024

HaPpY 92nd birthday anniversary