The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” John was “filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb” by Christ himself, whom the Virgin Mary had just conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary’s visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his...
The Baptism of the Lord

The Baptism of the Lord

“A person who is baptized and a person who is not baptized are not the same. We, by Baptism, are immersed in that inexhaustible source of life which is the death of Jesus, the greatest act of love in all of history; and thanks to this love we can live a new...
Baptism of St. Dominic

Baptism of St. Dominic

Before Dominic’s birth his mother, Jane of Aza, had a vision of a hound racing through the world with a flaming torch in it’s mouth, igniting everything it touched. A second extraordinary sign occurred at his baptism, which took place in the parish of San...