For if he could die in body, could she not die with him in spirit? He died in body through a love greater than anyone had known. She died in spirit through a love unlike any other since his. (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, +1153)
Day: September 15, 2025
Felicitationes ad Leonem, Papam
We here at Catholic Insight would like to extend our heartiest, if a bit belated, birthday greetings to Pope Leo XIV, who turned 70 on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, a propitious day to come into this world. As the Psalmist says (90/91:10), we have those number of years in our span,[…]
Mater Dolorosa, Mother of Sorrows
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows to all. This feast was first celebrated in the year 1233 – in the youth of that greatest of centuries, when Thomas Aquinas was but a young lad of eight, given as an Oblate to the Benedictines of Montecassino. It was the newly-founded Servite Order in Florence,[…]