Long day, heavy eyelids… and sleep won’t come. You’re not alone. The Church gives us four trusted friends for the night: St. Joseph, St. Blaise, St. Dymphna, and St. Michael the Archangel.
And How Can You Take Part?
On a hot July morning in 1981, the quiet town of Santiago Atitlán in Guatemala awoke to tragedy. Their beloved “Padre Apla’s”—Father Stanley Rother—had been murdered in his rectory, a victim of violence that had become all too common during the country’s brutal civil war. Yet, for the people gathered around the church that day, Stanley’s death was not just another casualty; it was the crowning act of a life poured out in love.
On July 23, the Church commemorates St. Bridget of Sweden, a remarkable medieval woman who embodied the roles of wife, mother, mystic, and Church reformer. Her life stands as a powerful testimony that holiness can be lived out in every state of life — whether in marriage, religious vocation, or lay service.
It was June 1979. Pope John Paul II, elected only a year before, made one of his first pilgrimages as pope to his native Poland. The people greeted him with overwhelming joy. The Communist government, however, saw him as a threat.
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