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An unexpected Evangelization Moment—Distributing Ashes on Ash Wednesday in Walmart
By Larry Peterson The USCCB states that evangelizing means bringing the Good News of Jesus into every human situation. So how can we everyday Catholics always be prepared to evangelize? Our behavior and our actions and the words we use are tools for evangelizing. They show that we are Christian. Saying grace before meals while…
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This Blessed Mother statue was carved by an Angel; Our Lady of Liesse aka Our Lady of Joy
By Larry Peterson During the time of the Crusades, it happened that one day three of the Knights of St. John were caught in an ambush and captured by the Saracens. The three prisoners were brothers and happened to be from the highly regarded family of Eppes in northern France. They were all loyal and…
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Meet a few of the Hidden People of Lent
By Larry Peterson I left church on Ash Wednesday and, just like everyone else, I had freshly smeared ashes on my forehead. I was ‘ready” to embrace the Lenten season. There was one difference. Four of us had small vials of ashes in our pockets along with our pyxes which contained the Holy Eucharist. We…
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A Priest and his Bishop defend the Faith in Kansas
By Larry Peterson Once again folks who reject the teachings of the Catholic Church are claiming ‘victimhood.” That is because the Church will NOT accommodate their blatant rejection of Catholic teaching. St. Ann Catholic School in Prairie Village, Kansas refused to accept a child into their kindergarten class. The reason was that the child’s parents…
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The Lily of Quito; St. Mariana de Jesus de Paredes; This orphaned girl grew up to be the “Heroine of the Nation.”
By Larry Peterson On October 31, 1618, a baby girl was born in the city of Quito, which was located in the New Kingdom of Grenada. Today this area is known as Ecuador. The child’s father was an upstanding and respected Spanish nobleman from Toledo by the name of Don Girolamo Flores de Paredes. Her…
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St. Telesphorus —The Pope who began the practice of Lenten Fasting
By Larry Peterson The eighth pope in the line of succession that began with St. Peter was Pope Telesphorus. He was a pope from 126 AD until 137 AD. He was followed by Pope Hyginus, who reigned from 136 AD to 142 AD. Both of these sainted popes have feast days in January and both…
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He watched the Little Heart beating—-beating, beating, beating—and then it just stopped. The suddenly still heart caused the conversion of the “Champion of Abortion.”
By Larry Peterson INFANTICIDE is a noun: It means: 1) the act of killing an infant. 2) the practice of killing newborn infants. 3) a person who kills an infant. That is what Infanticide means; simple as that. In January 2019, New York State has passed its own RHA (Reproductive Health Act). Amidst “hoots & hollers” and the Freedom…
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Smoking and Catholicism—Can it go from being Socially Acceptable to becoming a Mortal Sin?
By Larry Peterson The Baby Boomer generation (1946 thru 1964) will fully understand what follows. The Generation Z crowd (age 8 thru 23) will not. The generations in between, Gen X and Millenials, I leave for another time. This has to do with smoking. I grew up way back in the 50s. It was an…
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Pope St. Hyginus–The Pope who initiated having Godparents for the Newborn
By Larry Peterson The ninth pope in the line of succession and the person who succeeded Telesphorus was a man named Hyginus. According to the Liber Pontificalis (this is the widely referenced history of the Popes from St. Peter up until the 15th century) Hyginus, a contemporary of St. Justin Martyr, was a Greek from…
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Venerable Henriette Delille–A Catholic Woman of Color on the Road to Sainthood*
Honoring Black History Month; 2019 By Larry Peterson I’m sure most of us have heard of the people known as French Creoles. The Creoles are simply descendants of the settlers of Louisiana who were of French descent. The term also became applied to African descended slaves who were born in Louisiana. One of those descendants…
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