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As you can tell, Peter’s life was not an easy one. When World War II started, Japan extended their reach and occupied Papua New Guinea. Their first act was to imprison all the missionaries. The priests and nuns were rounded up and Peter and the other lay catechists were the only ones left to keep the faith of the local people alive.
And they did just that.
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Ignatius Maloyan burned with love for God. He reportedly praised the monastery as the “hope of the nation.” He poured himself into his lessons on theology, philosophy, virtue, morality, and languages. He served in Cairo, Alexandria, and Constantinople. It wasn’t long before he progressed as a priest, pastor, and eventually bishop of his hometown, Mardin.
However, outside the monastery and the Church, Ignatius’ world was rife with turmoil. The Ottoman Empire was torn by political tension and dueling factions.
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Maria entered the Salesian order in her early twenties, desiring to do something dramatic for God. She wanted to travel to far places, bring Christ to the ends of the world, and minister to lepers. The first World War broke out, however, and her plans were put on pause. She was trained as a Red Cross nurse and ministered to soldiers on the front lines.
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I was hooked from the get-go. I read it during lunch breaks, over dinner, after walking the dog, while waiting for the girls to get ready for brunch. I carried it from room to room, tucked it into my purse—always looking for a spare moment to squeeze in one more chapter.
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It is quite fitting that Pope Leo XIV would declare Newman a Doctor of the Church, as Pope Leo XIII was the pontiff who named Newman a cardinal back in 1879.
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When I picked up The Frassati Field Guide: An 8-Day Ascent to Heroic Virtue by Bobby Angel, it wasn’t because I had a longstanding devotion to Pier Giorgio Frassati. If anything, I was drawn in by the mountain metaphor—in both the literal and the spiritual sense.
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Directed by Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer, Reagan), Soul on Fire tells the miraculous true story of John O’Leary, who was just nine years old when a gasoline explosion left him with burns covering 100% of his body. His chances of survival were slim to none, but through the love of his family, the support of his community, some good old-fashioned St. Louis Cardinals baseball, and his own will to live, John beat the odds and survived.
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by Rietta Parker, Contributing Writer
A crumbling marriage. A priest who agrees to pray as he contemplates the ribbon that bound the couple as one on their wedding day. Mary’s love for her children.
This is the story of how the devotion to Our Lady as Mary, Undoer of Knots, originated in the 1600s. In Augsburg, Germany, a married couple, Wolfgang Langenmantel and Sophia Rentz, were contemplating divorce when Wolfgang went to Father Jakob Rem for spiritual counsel. Father Rem took the couple’s wedding ribbon and prayed with them to Our Lady to smooth out the knots of their marriage. A month later, the couple was able to fully reconcile and lived a long life together.
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by Elizabeth Hamonko, Writer
Think about what you last prayed for.
The majority of us start out our prayer life asking for tangible, immediate things. Perhaps it’s a new toy or a new job, depending on whether you grew up in the faith or converted as an adult.
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by Franci Revel Eckensberger
Mary’s life was one long yes to God–and a resounding yes, at that. Today, August 15, we honor that lifelong fiat with the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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