What Is the Jubilee Year & How Can We Celebrate It?
The year 2025 marks a significant event in the Church known as the Jubilee Year, a special period of grace, renewal, and pilgrimage for Catholics. Established by Pope Boniface VIII in the year 13...
Give A Spiritual Gift This Valentine's Day
When we think of Valentine's Day, we usually imagine flowers and chocolates and nice dinners out. These outward signs of our love are the typical gifts that express our feelings. We even list 10 of...
A Lenten Journey That Changed My Life—Twice
Hi, my name is Jessica, and this isn’t your typical book review.I’ve worked at The Catholic Company for 14 years. I’m not a big reader, I don’t journal as much as I should, and I’m definitely not a...
Lenten Season 101: A Guide for Everything You Need to Know
Lent is the time of spiritual preparation prior to the Easter season, just as Advent is for Christmas. Jesus taught us clearly that there is no Resurrection without the Cross, and Lent is the Churc...
A Guide to 4 Popular Devotional Tools for Lent
Christmas and Easter are the two principle feasts of the liturgical year. On Christmas our Savior was born, and on Easter, the Church's most important feast, our Savior accomplished what he was bor...
How Do I Explain Lent to Non-Catholics?
Have you ever struggled to explain why you participate in Lent? If you have friends or family members who are not Catholic, they may notice something a bit different about you - namely, your curiou...
“From long experience I have learned that there is nothing like holy water to put devils to flight and prevent them from coming back again. They also flee from the Cross, but return; so holy water ...
Did You Know There Are Different Types of Rosaries?
The Dominican Rosary is the most beloved devotion in Catholic tradition. This is the type of rosary we are most familiar with - it consists of five decades which we pray while meditating on one of ...
Ways For Catholics To Celebrate St. Nicholas's Day
December 6th is the feast day of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, which appropriately falls during the Advent season. This feast day is an especially exciting one for children as they co...
St. Maximilian Kolbe: Martyr of Charity
August 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, one of the most popular saints of our times. Pope St. John Paul II referred to him as “the patron saint of our difficult century." What makes St....