Eliminating Vices from Your Vocational Focus
It’s a Friday night when you get home from a long day at the office. It was a difficult day, but it’s over and now you can put away your work, pour yourself a drink, kick back, and relax as the weekend begins. At least that’s how you think it’s going to go. But as... Continue reading→
Mortal Lies and Mortal Sins
Married persons also need a pure heart to avoid sins against the sixth beatitude, by using marital relations in a disordered way by putting limits or conditions on their total, unconditional self-giving. This breaks and distorts the image of God’s total, unconditional self-giving in the Holy Trinity. The most common way is using contraception. What... Continue reading→
Communication in Your Marriage
So you’re married. You have an attractive, loving, caring, smart spouse and you share the same values and standards. You both practice your Catholic Faith. You have compatible attitudes and habits. You’re both open to life, you know you will raise your children in the Faith, and you have the means to provide for... Continue reading→
Up Next, on The Saints: Clare of Assisi
We hope you enjoyed the story of Stanley Rother, from Oklahoma to Guatemala! Now, “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” travels all the way back to the 1200s to a familiar face: Clare of Assisi. Inspired by the radical poverty Francis of Assisi embraced, Chiara Offreducio – Clare – and her sister Catarina (later... Continue reading→
Coming Monday: Blessed Stanley Rother
Have you ever heard of Okarche, Oklahoma? That’s where the next story of “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” begins, with a venerated holy man from the United States. Blessed Stanley Rother was born in 1935, one of four children born to the Rother family in the middle of the Dust Bowl. He joined... Continue reading→
Coming Monday: Paul Miki
We hope the story of Edith Stein inspired you to live your faith more boldly! This week on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage,” we have a similar story that unfolded nearly three hundred years before Edith was born. Paul Miki was a Japanese-born convert to the Catholic faith with a gift for speaking... Continue reading→
Next, on The Saints: Edith Stein
This week’s upcoming saint has two names you might have heard before: Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, or Edith Stein. Edith was born into a Jewish family, but she was agnostic and searching for something more by the time she finished her doctoral thesis at 25. She read a biography of Teresa of Ávila and,... Continue reading→
Today only: Give to Inspire future saints!
Have you been inspired by “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage?” Give that gift that uplifts the whole family – the next generations of holy men and women – with today’s One-Day Pledge Drive: “Give to Inspire!” “Give to Inspire!” supports The Merry Beggars, the entertainment division at Relevant Radio responsible for some of... Continue reading→
Coming Monday, the story of John Bosco!
This coming week on “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage” we leave the incredible foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and move to the patron of young children, students, publishers, and… magicians? Tune in for the remarkable story of a Salesian priest devoted to love, apprenticeship, and the care-filled... Continue reading→
Forgiveness in Marriage is Not Optional
“Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, On earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”... Continue reading→
Back for his feast day, it’s Patrick of Ireland!
Missed the start of “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage”? No worries – Patrick of Ireland returns, just in time for his feast day on St. Patrick’s Day! The story of Patrick has it all: teenage rebellion, conversion, and getting captured by pirates. Born in the Britannia part of the dissolving Roman Empire, Patrick... Continue reading→
The 2024 Walk to Mary
On May 4th, thousands will gather in De Pere, Wisconsin at the National Shrine of St. Joseph to make the 11th annual, 21-mile trek to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion. This journey is known as the Walk to Mary, and over the past few years, it has become a... Continue reading→
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