Father Ron’s Nook 2024

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2024

December 27, 2024

• • Lessons learned from contemplating the nativity scene
  • Fulton Sheen taught me the true meaning of Christmas

December 20, 2024

• • Chief architech of Notre Dame on what really inspired him
  • Books for Christmas

December 13, 2024

• • ‘I Am The Immaculate Conception’ — A Marian Movie for December and Any Season
  • Overestimating sin, underestimating mercy: A thought for Advent

December 6, 2024

• • Open-and-go lesson plan for feast of St. Nicholas
  • 9 Beautiful books to help you have your best Advent yet

November 28, 2024

• • Pope’s advice for worried grandmother about fallen-away kids
  • New must-see holiday movie is the best book adaptation ever

November 22, 2024

• • Assisi church bells ring at Carlo Acutis canonization date!
  • Dates for Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati 2025 canonizations

November 15, 2024

• • What happened when we taught our teenagers to dance
  • How to pray when you have no time to pray

November 7, 2024

• • Bishop Robert Barron Pans ‘Conclave’ Movie
  • 6 Important Bible Quotes on Loving Your Neighbor

November 1, 2024

• • ‘Raging Fire’: Pope Francis’ New Encyclical Reignites Sacred Heart Devotion
  • 5 Wonderful things that Halloween can bring

October 25, 2024

• • Kamala Harris Rejects Religious Exemptions for Abortion Laws: ‘That Cannot be Negotiable’
  • Word on Fire to Publish Ratzinger’s Collected Works in English

October 19, 2024

• • The exquisite last letter of man who died from rare progeria disease
  • Who are the 14 Blesseds the Pope will canonize Sunday?

October 4, 2024

• • Pope joins cardinal’s call for October 7 fast, invites to Rosary
  • Can guardian angels see us when we sin against God?

September 27, 2024

• • 10 Things to know about the Christians in Lebanon
  • A new statue of Jesus is tallest in the world!

September 20, 2024

• • Who was St. Januarius and why does his blood liquefy?
  • Sign up for the Novena to St. Michael September 20-29

September 13, 2024

• • The priests of 9/11
  • A saint for all souls (in purgatory)

September 6, 2024

• • St. Gregory the Great’s advice for married couples
  • French Priest Rescues Blessed Sacrament From Burning Catholic Church

August 30, 2024

• • St. Teresa of Ávila’s Body Remains Incorrupt After Almost 5 Centuries
  • Love, Not Genius, Will Save Your Fallen-Away Loved Ones

August 23, 2024

• • 2024 Democratic platform: What Catholics need to know
  • Pope says Pius X’s feast a reason to thank catechists

August 16, 2024

• • Eucharist Survives Church Fire: ‘A Work of God’s Extraordinary Providence’
  • Can feast of Assumption bring turn-around in Holy Land

August 9, 2024

• • There’s a type of sorrow that is a sin: Pope explains
  • Carson Daly Says: ‘I’m Never Missing Mass Again’ After Watching Father Mike Schmitz Video on the Eucharist

August 2, 2024

• • Pope Francis: 5 fruits of Eucharistic Adoration
  • Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota criticizes Last Supper parody during opening ceremony of Olympics

July 26, 2024

• • How to manage your wealth, according to St. Basil
  • Fr. Mike shares what might keep youth in the Church

July 18, 2024

• • A Catholic response to political turmoil
  • 5 Concrete, simple ways your family can live the Eucharistic Congress from home

July 12, 2024

• • St. Benedict and his medal: Defense against demonic attacks
  • Why do Catholics offer Mass for the dead?
  • Fr. Mike Schmitz goes viral with Bible in 10 minutes

July 5, 2024

• • Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati: His life and legacy
  • How Jesus is the hidden celebrant of every Mass

June 28, 2024

• • 3 Questions that can help you build a unique family culture
  • Why the Eucharist is the source and summit of Christian life
  • How the Eucharist reminds us to give thanks for creation

June 21, 2024

• • The best books about early Christianity, according to experts
  • Why summer is the perfect time to press the “family reset” button
  • 5 Keys to holiness taken from the Gospels

June 14, 2024

• • Why the Sacred Heart says “Thy Kingdom Come”
  • Three beautiful prayers to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
  • Norbertines fit so much theology in just one hymn

June 7, 2024

• • Pope Francis’ letter on D-Day: A prayer for 3 groups
  • Why Thomas Aquinas believed the Eucharist is Jesus
  • “Jesus Thirsts” film “is an encounter with Jesus”

May 31, 2024

• • The miraculous vision behind the feast of Corpus Christi
  • Eucharistic Pilgrimage: Boy drops everything to follow Jesus
  • Three lessons from the life of St. Teresa of Avila

May 24, 2024

• • POPE FRANCIS: THE FIRST with Norah O’Donnell

• Kickoff of Eucharistic Pilgrimage drives home spiritual lesson
• Six unique & enjoyable ways to bond with elderly relatives
• A pastoral letter on mental health by Bishop Conley

May 17, 2024

• What was the message of Our Lady of Fatima?
• Fatima visionary said final battle would be over marriage and family
• Bishop Paprocki: Biden mocks Catholic faith by invoking Christ in pro-abortion message

May 10, 2024

• Jesus Ascends and the devil descends on the Ascension
• Mindzenty and the battle for the Church under Communism
• The art of doing nothing; a Catholic embrace of boredom

May 3, 2024

• 9 beautiful quotes about St. Joseph to inspire you at work
• This prayer is the summary of the whole gospel
• Seeds of faith: gardening with children for spiritual growth

April 26, 2024

• 9 Facts about Catholics in the U.S. according to Pew research
• St. Jean de Brebeuf; One of the first North American Martyrs
• What type of body did Jesus have when he rose from the dead?

April 19, 2024

• Radiant in the Gulag and elsewhere
• Why do we complain that God doesn’t hear our prayers?