A Quick Guide to the Symbols of Irish - Celtic Jewelry
Ireland is home to some of the most intricate and interesting art known in human history. Attributed to the ancient Celtic people, it is mysterious and rich in meaning with sign, symbol, and metap...
How to Explain Your Ashes: 3 Methods
Have you ever been asked about your Ash Wednesday ashes? During the Ash Wednesday service our foreheads are adorned with ashes followed by the words: "For you are dust, And to dust you shall ...
How Can We Learn to Listen to God's Answer to Our Prayers?
Prayer is not easy, and neither is coming to understand when and how God may be answering our prayers. My two big pieces advice:1) Remember what God has already done for you (in the Old Testament, ...
Lent Is Our Chance For A Spiritual Tune Up
I recently dropped off my car off for service. A maintenance light had been nagging me for at least a month, so I finally did something about it. $880 later, I drove away with my "newly improved"...
Anticipating Lent: Your Pre-Lent Pep Talk
Lent is fast approaching and Catholics across the world will soon gather in solidarity on Ash Wednesday to embark on the forty day journey into the proverbial wilderness of self-denial.Denying ours...
Teaching Kids How to Pray: Pope Francis' Five-Finger Method
There's a simple prayer method attributed to Pope Francis while he was Archbishop of Argentina.It's a simple yet helpful prayer method not only great for teaching kids how to pray, but it's good fo...
How to Make St. Brigid's Cross
St. Brigid of Ireland (451–525 A.D.), also known as St. Brigit of Kildare, was born to a pagan Irish chieftain father and a Christian slave mother, making her a slave girl. She worked as a dairy ma...
Don Bosco's Advice on How to Keep the Devil Away
St. John Bosco (also known as Don Bosco) was an influential 19th century Italian priest who ministered to the poor and neglected boys of Turin, Italy, who were driven to a life of desperation and c...
Epiphany Blessing for The Catholic Company Warehouse: See Photos & Video
Epiphany is one of the Church's major feasts of the liturgical year, the peak of the Christmas season, and as such is accompanied by very special and beautiful blessings in celebration of this sole...
How Can Families Keep their Christmas Festivities Going through Epiphany?
We asked Fr. Leo Patalinghug, author of Grace Before Meals, how families can overcome the temptation to end their Christmas celebrations on December 26th and keep their festivities going strong thr...