The Church just celebrated the feast day of one of our patron saints, St. Margaret of Cortona.  Have you read much about her life?  A good place to start is this article from our website: “Horror of Sin and the Mercy of God” Please take the time to read this article, and then maybe do […]

St. Thomas Aquinas is best known for being the Church’s greatest theologian.  He wrote two “Summas” of theology which have been of tremendous importance to the Church ever since his the 13th century.  But he was a man who was immersed in Sacred Scripture as well — he wrote many commentaries on different books of […]

Last night (October 16), I attended the annual banquet of Right-to-Life of Owensboro (Kentucky).  What a wonderful event — to see 800 or more men and women (and a good number of teenagers) who would come out for an evening to celebrate the sanctity of human life! It was a joy-filled occasion.  Not only was […]

Have you ever thought that? Wondered how much better things might be in life if we just lived a few hundred years ago? I know that I have! It seems like things were so much easier…. WRONG! They weren’t easier! Think of how many inventions we now have that make life easier – washing machines, […]

There is a tradition that certain months of the year are associated with particular feasts of the Church, particular aspects of our Faith.  The month of July has traditionally been the month in which the Precious Blood of our Savior, Jesus Christ, is honored — that blood which was poured out upon the Cross for […]

 Father Jim Costigan, CPM Some things are easy to forgive.  A fan mistakes you for the reigning Miss America, you correct him, then he graciously apologizes — that’s pretty easy to forgive. But then there’s the friend who didn’t keep your secret, the woman who stole your man, the date who raped you, the man […]

The season of Easter. What do we think about it? We all know that Lent is celebrated [or do most of us use that word “celebrate” when it comes to Lent?] for forty days – a full season of special attention to prayer, fasting and almsgiving. And Easter comes, and then what? One of my […]

How do we make a holy Lent?  Some of the saints teach that when we pray, we need to add fasting and almsgiving to our prayer.  Think of prayer as the soil of our soul’s garden.  If something is going to grow in the garden, it also needs rain.  And even with rain, it still […]