Here is a link to today’s readings. Today is September 11th. Let us take a moment to pray for those who died in the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania. Let us pray for those...
[caption id="attachment_17655" align="alignleft" width="414"] This watercolor depicts the Twenty-Third Publications headquarters in Mystic, CT.The historic building was built in 1887 by local shipbuilders.[/caption] NEW LONDON, CT — Following the conclusion of Vatican Council II, Twenty-Third Publications was founded in 1967. The...
Twenty-Third Publications has an exciting new faith formation series, Our Catholic Life: A Reading & Study Guide for Adult Faith Formation. This vibrant, seven-book program will help readers develop an inviting and thoroughly informative adult faith formation program based entirely...
David Mead, editor at Creative Communications for the Parish, wrote, produced and directed the internationally recognized video—Mother Teresa: Seeing the Face of Jesus—which was one of twenty-two films featured and screened at the Mother Teresa International Film Festival in Nandan, Kolkata,...
Here is a link to today’s readings. Mother Teresa is being canonized today! She, like all the saints, is what I call a remote witness. They are able to speak to us over centuries, although we never knew them personally in...
WORCESTER, MA – Bayard, an international Catholic publisher with offices in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe, held a dedication and blessing of its recently established location at Assumption College in Worcester, MA, on Sept. 1. The new editorial offices, located...
Here is a link to today’s readings. Since we celebrated my mother’s birthday together last time with some cake, let me share a story. When I was still a teenager, my mother and one of my brothers and I went to...
Here is a link to today’s readings. Once a year, I bake a cake. It is for my mother’s birthday, on August 6th –the Feast of the Transfiguration—and it is always the same cake, her favorite, an Apricot Queen Cake. My...
DAYTON, Ohio — Today’s Catholic Teacher, the cornerstone periodical for Catholic educators, recently announced a new publishing team and unveiled the new look of the magazine with its Fall issue, as well as a redesigned and upgraded website at CatholicTeacher.com. New...
Here is a link to today’s readings. With the Olympics in full swing, it seems appropriate to focus on the athletic metaphor that the letter to the Hebrews uses. Like Saint Paul, the writer encourages us to “rid ourselves of every...