Mary Most Holy Mother of God
With the solemnity of Mary Most Holy Mother of God the Church celebrates and confesses that the Blessed Virgin truly is the Theotókos (in Greek: "She who gives birth to God")
Holy Family
The Holy Family fulfils to the highest degree the two commandments of love. Jesus, Mary and Joseph indicate that the family is an image of the Holy Trinity and, to reflect this image, is called to place God at the centre
Saint Felix I
He ordered to celebrate Masses on the tombs of the martyrs, which is probably a trace of the liturgical custom of the Masses "ad corpus"
Saint Thomas Becket
He fought to the point of martyrdom to defend the freedom of the Church, refusing to compromise with power.
Holy Innocents
Their celebration appears in all Eastern and Western liturgical calendars and dates back to at least the 4th century
St. John the Evangelist
He has been depicted with an eagle as his symbol because he contemplated the immensity of the divine Word and outlined it in his writings like no other before.
Saint Stephen
The first Christian martyr testified his faith in the Risen Christ without fear of death and, as a faithful in Christ, imitated him to the exent of asking God to forgive his executioners.
Nativity of the Lord
We shall dedicate this space to remembering one detail of the immense history of salvation, namely that the today of the angels' news to the shepherds, that is, the today of the birth of Jesus, was precisely December 25th.
Saints Adam and Eve
After their freely-chosen consummation of original sin and expulsion from Eden, our forefathers – according to the Church Fathers and following some hints in the Old Testament – lived a life of prayer and penance, then dying reconciled with God
Saint John of Kety
He was a Polish priest, theologian and university teacher, who always gave half of his academic salary to the poor
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the love for the Eucharist were the source of her perseverance. Pius XII canonized her and proclaimed her "heavenly patron of all emigrants"
Saint Peter Canisius
His Catechism – indeed, his three Catechisms – formed German Catholics for centuries: in Germany, as Pope Benedict XVI recalls, "even in my father's generation, people called the Catechism simply the Canisius".
