Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino, SJ, gave his all for souls of the American Southwest
by Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI (Summer, 2017) The devoted sons of several religious orders were the predominant early missionaries of the territory which later became the United States. These great religious families were the Franciscans, the Dominicans and the Jesuits. Among the latter religious, we are all familiar with the eight Jesuit martyrs of […]
The Origin of the Ecclesiastical Year
From the 1935 book, Catholic Liturgics, by Richard Stapper, S.T.D. (Spring-Summer, 2006) The ecclesiastical year originated in the annual observance of certain days in memory of Christ; these commemorative occurrences have a relation to one another and represent anew the historical progress and the supernatural benefits of the work of redemption. The divinely-instituted feasts of […]
