Today, hundreds of thousands will gather in Washington, D.C. for the March for Life, and on Saturday, ten of thousands will gather for the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco, CA. The Main Stream […]
Standing Up to Fight for Life and Humanity
“Mondays with Mary” – A Look Back at the Last Five Posts
For today’s “Mondays with Mary”, I want to provide you with the last five blog posts written on the Blessed Mother. In the case you might have missed one, being that it […]
The Importance of Secular Learning
Part of my spiritual resolutions this year is to pray more and to pray in front of the Blessed Sacrament for at least 15 minutes a day. This has been somewhat of […]
Saint Hilary of Poitiers – The Athanasius of the West
Today we celebrate, the Athanasius of the West, Saint Hilary of Poitiers. There really isn’t much reliable information on much of St. Hilary’s life. We do know that he was born to […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary, Motherhood, and Sacrament of Baptism
Luke 2:21-22 says, “And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. And […]
The Circumcision and Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Today, in the Western lung of the Catholic Church, we celebrate the Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ. On January 6, the Eastern lung of the Church celebrated the same event, however, […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Mary and the Word of God
During the month of November, I taught a class for men studying for the permanent diaconate here in the Diocese of Phoenix. One of the texts we used for the short 5-week […]
St. Gregory Nazianzen – The Theologian
Not only do we commemorate Saint Basil the Great today, but we also commemorate his friend, Saint Gregory Nazianzen. He, like St. Basil, was a great fighter for the Christian faith in […]
Saint Basil the Great – Father of Eastern Monasticism
Today we commemorate one of the Greats of the Church and the Father of Eastern Monasticism – Saint Basil. He is described as “a luminary of the Church” in the Byzantine liturgy […]
Tom’s Goals for 2014
As we enter the Year of Our Lord 2014, it came to me that I should write down my own goals (of course Taylor Marshall’s post helped a bit too). On December […]
TomPerna.org 2013 Annual Report
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 97,000 times […]
The Declaration of the Theotokos at the Council of Ephesus
Since tomorrow is the Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God, and a Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics (in the Western lung of the Church), todays post is dedicated to […]
“Mondays with Mary” – ‘Mother of Fairest Love’
The phrase “mother of fairest love” is revealed to us in Chapter 24 of the Book of Sirach in the Latin Vulgate text and states, “I am the mother of fairest love, […]
The 20th Anniversary of the Year of the Family
Today in the western lung of the Catholic Church, we celebrate the great feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. On this day, we seek to understand the unconditional […]
Merry Christmas from Tom Perna
O God, who have made this most sacred night radiant with the splendor of the true light, grant, we pray, that we, who have known the mysteries of his light on earth, […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Pope Benedict XVI on Mary and the Mystery of Christmas
Since yesterday was the 4th Sunday of Advent and in two days is Christmas, I give you the words of Pope Benedict XVI and his explanation of Mary and the Mystery of […]
Happy Birthday Pope Francis!
May You Have a Blessed Day filled with Joy and Love! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOLY FATHER!
TOM PERNA 