Selection from First Communion Days by A Sister of Notre Dame Audiobook on LibriVox and Internet Archive Emmerickhaus , the childhood home of Anne Catherine Emmerich ( source ) Anne Catherine On the 8th September, 1774, Our Blessed Lady’s birthday, a little baby girl was born, who that same day was baptised and received the name of Anne Catherine. The house where she was born was poorer than any you have seen in this country. Built of wood and mud, it contained only one square room, which...

Selection from Short Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year: Volume I The Bad Christian by Rev. Francis Hunolt, S.J. (trans. Rev. Augustine Wirth, OSB) Text and Audio on JMJ Site Quinquagesima Sunday Many, During Shrovetide, Prefer to Follow the Devil Rather Than Christ “Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and all this shall be accomplished which were written by the Prophets concerning the Son of Man.” St. Luke 8:31 How do these two things harmonize, the Gospel of today and the present season?...

Selection from Advent Readings from the Church Fathers by W. J. E. Bennett. PDF Second Thursday: The Church's Failure Saint John Chrysostom, on Acts of the Apostles, Homily xxix. Saint John Chrysostom from the fresco Chiesa di Santa Maria in Aquiro by Cesare Mariani (d. 1901) ( source ) The Church indeed is in very evil case, although ye think her affairs to be in peace. For the mischief of it is, that while we labour under so many evils, we do not even know that we have any. What sayest...