The Catholic Defender: Planting The Good Soil
“When a large crowd gathered, with people from one town after another journeying to him (Jesus), he spoke in a parable. A sower went out...
The Catholic Defender: The Call For Vigilance
Jesus said to his disciples: “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily...
The Catholic Defender: The Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Promise 5
5. I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings. Jesus is promising spiritual blessings and temporal blessings that are for...
The Catholic Defender: The Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Promise 4
4. I will be their refuge during life and above all in death. This promise is the heart of why Jesus was sent from Heaven to save the...
The Catholic Defender: St. Mark, friend of St. Peter
St. Mark the Evangelist is recognized as a friend of St. Peter and one of the four Evangelist Gospel writers, he was born of Jewish...
The Catholic Defender: The Holy Innocents
According to the Church Calendar, December 28 is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Historically, this remembrance could be no sooner than...
The Catholic Defender: My Annual Christmas Timeline Salute
“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while...
The Catholic Defender: St. Jude Thaddaeus, Apostle and Relative to Jesus
St. Jude (according to Scripture) was born under the House of Clopus, son of Alpheus and Mary, a close relative of the Virgin Mary. St....
The Catholic Defender: The Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Promise 7
(7) Lukewarm souls shall become fervent. This promise is a major issue with Our Lord, we see this in the book of Revelation, chapter...
The Catholic Defender: The Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Promise 8
(8) Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection. This promise makes perfect sense, the more you hand over the reigns to the...
