Consider how Mary's Assumption has roots in the Old Testament in the person of Eliah, as well as in Enoch and Moses.

Learn about how St. Peter of Verona helped people discern a false spirit under the appearance of Jesus and Mary.

We commemorate the Transfiguration of Christ annually on August 6. Learn the important meaning of the Church's teaching.

Fr. Scott Haynes St. Cyprian of Carthage, writing on the sin of envy, gives us a sentence that seems to have been written for every age in which grace is resented: “It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”¹ He is not speaking merely of irritation, rivalry, or wounded pride. He is uncovering a deep spiritual disorder: the heart that suffers because another soul belongs to God, the heart that

Rev. F. Quirijnen, S.J., explains what perfect contrition is and what it is not. It is the humble of heart who have sorrow for their sins.