by Diana | Jan 5, 2015 | Catholic History, Liturgical Calendar, RCSD Post, Saints, Videos
Today is the memorial of St John Nepomucene Neumann, Philadelphia’s fourth bishop and our country’s first male saint. In celebration of his memorial, I wrote a post about our shrine here in Philadelphia, the National Shrine of St John Nepomucene Neumann, one...
by Diana | Sep 30, 2014 | Catholic History, Holy Land, Saints
Did you know that St. Jerome is the patron saint of librarians and of translators? In Latin, his name is Hieronymus—which I love—and every September 30th, on the memorial of his death, translators around the world celebrate International Translation Day! How awesome...
by Diana | Sep 21, 2014 | Catholic History, Holy Land, Liturgical Calendar, Pilgrimage, Saints
Our Lord summoned Matthew by speaking to him in words. By an invisible, interior impulse flooding his mind with the light of grace, he instructed him to walk in his footsteps. In this way Matthew could understand that Christ, who was summoning him away from earthly...
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by Diana | Aug 12, 2014 | Catholic History, Holy Land, Mary, Pilgrimage, RCSD Post, Saints
This post first appeared at Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction, where I have been invited to blog once a month on Catholic travel. If you’re not familiar with the site, check it out! They have some awesome bloggers there, with great info on a variety of aspects of...
