Jul 24, 2025 VIERA |  The family that prays together, stays together. The phrase was coined by Venerable Father Patrick Peyton, the Holy Cross priest who created The Family Theater Productions in 1947. Healed from tuberculosis after asking the Virgin Mary for that blessing, he launched the Family Rosary Crusade in gratitude and commitment to spreading the devotion.…

Jul 24, 2025 My Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ: Jesus came to heal and forgive, teaching us to love as God loves. Jesus speaks to our heart, as He teaches us to pray. We praise our Father for His goodness, His hallowed name the Source of all Creation. We pray that by our living His kingdom will…

Jul 24, 2025 ORLANDO  |  A small group of Lay Carmelites gather in Sts. Peter and Paul’s chapel in Winter Park for Liturgy of the Hours followed by morning Mass. Laden with their large brown scapulars bearing the initials of the Blessed Virgin Mary, they renew their vows. It is July 16, the feast of Our Lady of…

Jul 10, 2025 ORLANDO | Imagine being invited to dinner and offered a smorgasbord of delicacies to tantalize your palate. That’s how seminarian Josué Reyes Díaz describes his summer assignment at St. James Cathedral. As he views the cathedral’s many ministries, he is selecting activities to enhance his experience of priesthood. Entering his second year of seminary, known…

Jul 10, 2025 ROME| Sitting in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome awaiting Pope Leo XIV, Thomas Hammen is accompanied by 3,000 seminarians from all over the world. Suddenly one seminarian breaks out in song, “Christus venci, Christus regnat, Christus imperat” (Christ victorious, Christ reigns, Christ rules) and all begin to sing. The sound fills the space like a…

Jul 7, 2025 My Sisters and Brothers in Christ: Within our faith, we associate freedom with the ability to love, as Moses and Jesus speak. Moses said to “return to the Lord with all your heart and all your soul.” Jesus affirms what Moses said and clarifies even further when a scholar of the law said that to…