Standing with love before Jesus

This image of a child standing before Jesus on the cross touched my heart with many thoughts. My first thought was about the exchange of loving glances between the innocent child and the innocent Lamb of God. Christ looking down […]

A true profile in courage – St. Maria Goretti

Today’s saint was an 11-year old child when she showed courage in choosing her Christian principles over her life. Saint Maria Goretti, affectionately called Marietta, was born in 1891 into a poor Italian family.  Her father died nine years later and the […]