by Totus Tuus Online | Jun 17, 2020 | Saints
From an early age Pier Giorgio exhibited a great devotion to God and love of others, especially the poor. Someone who sets out to discover the heart of a saint is bound to find a fascinating individual who stands out. One of the traits found in genuinely holy...
by Totus Tuus Online | Apr 8, 2020 | Martyrdom, Saints
He was offered his freedom, many privileges and wealth if he would only renounce his Catholicism, but he declined and was tortured mercilessly. Edmund Campion was born in 1540 in Henry VIII’s enthusiastically Protestant England. He became one of Oxford’s best scholars...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 4, 2018 | Saints
On a crowded train home to Cork recently I was sitting with three teenagers. They were talking about their names and mentioned that they had another name, a confirmation name. One of the girls who was not Irish asked what that was. “It’s a thing you get when you are...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 1, 2018 | Saints
Singleness of purpose. So might someone paraphrase the early Jesuit spirit. Everything was put at the disposal of the Jesuit’s singular purpose as laid out in the Spiritual Exercises’ First Principle and Foundation: “to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and...
by Totus Tuus Online | Oct 20, 2018 | Saints
Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan was involved in many of the great national movements in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Like many priests at the time, he was committed to improving the living and working conditions of the people, locally and...
by Totus Tuus Online | Aug 20, 2018 | Saints
The missionary movement that was such a significant feature of the Irish Catholic church from the late nineteenth century through to the 1960s both recalled the earlier glories of the Middle Ages, when Catholic missionaries from the island had helped to maintain the...
