
As I have done in the past, this being the tenth article on the Assumption, I have found quotes about the great Solemnity we are celebrating today in the life of the […]
As I have done in the past, this being the tenth article on the Assumption, I have found quotes about the great Solemnity we are celebrating today in the life of the […]
This morning I checked the inbox of one of my email accounts to find an email from a friend sharing with me an article that George Weigel wrote titled, WYD 1993: The Turning […]
Recently I wrote an article talking about the changes to this website/blog, it was titled – TomPerna.org Gets a Facelift. In that article I wrote about how I was going to start […]
Today in the Catholic world, we commemorate the life of Saint Dominic de Guzman, who is most notably famous for being the Founder of the Dominican Order. If you want to know […]
On November 29, in the year 1932, five children from the ages of nine to fifteen years old were playing as they were walking in the direction of a railway bridge. They […]
As you probably have noticed in the last couple of weeks from being on this website/blog is that I have redesigned the page. For the longest time, really since I began writing, […]
One of the most famous and popular Marian Shrines in central Europe is found in the Styrian Mountains, 50 miles southwest of Vienna, Austria. Covered in snow for most of the winter […]
With today being the 50th Anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae, I thought I would return to a series I haven’t written for some time. I am not going into […]
The city of Lujan is 43 miles west of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The city is home to Our Lady of Lujan and the basilica that is dedicated to Mary under the same […]
For four weeks this past April and May, I led a book study for 30 or so of our parishioners on Tuesday morning focusing on the text, Saint Mary Magdalene: Prophetess of […]
If you were to visit Algiers today, you would find a much different country than in years past. Although Algiers today is very much a Muslim country, it was not so for […]
Over the past months I have been racking my brain to come up with good “Mondays with Mary” articles for you all to read. And although I have lots of Marian books […]
Today as I was pondering on what to write for this weekly series, I came upon an intriguing idea in a book a recently acquired titled, Dictionary of Mary. In this dictionary, […]
For today’s “Mondays with Mary”, I found a prayer associated with the Miraculous Medal (Source: Association of the Miraculous Medal – http://www.amm.org/Default.aspx) where the specific prayer intention is for employment. The reason […]
This past Saturday the Roman lung of the Catholic Church celebrated the great Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Saturday devotion follows the Friday devotion of the […]
One month ago, it was like Christmas, Easter, and my birthday all wrapped into one when at the parish we received over 20 boxes of Catholic books. The boxes of books came […]
Since this upcoming Thursday is the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (and my Mom’s Birthday), I wanted to briefly share with you a reflection on Mary and Elizabeth’s encounter as well […]