Mount Athos, Saint Joseph of Hesychast

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Marie Anne Torres

“Mount Athos, St. Joseph Hesychast” is the type of movie you watch and immediately want to share with all of your friends. The film shares the life of St. Joseph Hesychast, from his boyhood to his days as a holy Monk on Mount Athos in Greece.

Deacon-structing: What is the Process for Canonization?

Monday, February 14, 2022

Deacon Pedro

Deacon Pedro continues exploring canonization by looking more closely at the process by which holy people are declared saints in the Catholic Church.

Deacon-structing: What is the History of Canonizations?

Monday, January 31, 2022

Deacon Pedro

How does the Catholic Church go about "making saints"? Deacon Pedro gives us a brief history of canonization.

The Dorothy Day Reading List Challenge – Part 2

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Allyson Kenny

Allyson Kenny continues her Dorothy Day Reading List Challenge with 31 books read by Day in the 1940s. How many have you read?

Deacon-structing Panama 2019 Saints – My Version

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Deacon Pedro

This year during WYD the Church happened to celebrate the memorials of some very memorable saints. Deacon Pedro explains why they are also relevant for WYD.

Father of Monks, Fighter of Demons, Forerunner of Faith

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Fr. Matt Gworek

Fr. Matt Gworek reflects on the life of St. Anthony the Great, the great ascetic, mystic, and inspiration of the early Church. How can he inspire us today?

10 Christmas Quotes from the Saints

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Kristina Glicksman

Read these 10 inspiring quotes from some of the great saints of the Catholic Church as they ponder the awesome gift of the Nativity and the Incarnation.

The Saints We Know and the Saints We Don’t

Monday, October 15, 2018

Fr. Matt Gworek

Quick: tell me your favourite thing about St. Agileus. St. Cannatus? St. Fortunatus? St. Thecla? Fr. Matt Gworek explores the wonderful variety of saints.

Prayer to St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church on his Feast Day – August 28

Monday, August 27, 2018

Salt + Light Media

As we celebrate the memorial of St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, read this beautiful prayer written by Pope St. John Paul II in 2004.

“To set the world at naught”:
Thomas More, John Fisher, and the role of conscience

Friday, June 22, 2018

Kristina Glicksman

Read about St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher: two heroic saints who defied a tyrannical king and gave their lives rather than act against their conscience.