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21/07/2026

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13/02/2026

Strengthen your marriage and your Catholic faith with our books selected for St. Valentine's Day:

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02/02/2026

An excerpt from

Saint Brigid of Ireland
By Alice Curtayne (of Tralee, Co. Kerry)

St. Brigid, who ranks with Patrick and Columcille in Ireland's Great Triad of Saints, arose in that period where certainty begins in our record. She stands in that first shaft of light that illuminates our history, literature, topography, art and architecture. The strength of Irish devotion to her is expressed in the very repetition of our Kilbrides, Templebreedys, Tobarbrides, Kilbreedys, Rathbrides and Drumbrides. No one having the slightest acquaintance with Ireland can miss her name, so hugely is it scrawled across the landscape. The ancients affixed it to enduring things, like running water and glens, that should witness to her forever. . . Her contemporaries re-named the landmarks, recast the whole topography of the Island, in order that she should be remembered.

06/12/2025

An excerpt from Priscilla McCaffrey's beautiful tale of Christmas in China, "Christmas Blossoms":

"Jian thought of his mother and his venerable father greeting the priests at the door after Midnight Mass. On thiose nights, the priests carried lanters and sang Western carols outside the Zhang home, and they would not be let in until they sang the Chinese version of 'Jingle Bells.' . . .

When he turned to thoughts of his family, it was always Christmas Eve. His family meant Christmas to him, and Christmas meant his family."

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