Jeanie Hannaman

By Maura Roan McKeegan, Catholic Exchange - Some friars who lived in San Giovanni Rotondo with Padre Pio once heard a mysterious sound coming from the friary. It sounded, one of the friars said, like “voices singing in beautiful harmony.” No one could find the source... Padre Pio was deep in prayer at the time, and someone approached him to ask if he knew where the singing was coming from. Roused as if from a deep sleep, he answered, “Why are you all so surprised? They are the voices of the angels, who are taking souls from purgatory into paradise.”

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - Christians, and particularly the Saints, have a record of flourishing under the least likely circumstances... They, and we, when we persist to victory, are undefeated even through defeat. For if God is for us, who can be against us?... The faithful Christian will even know why this is so. He will be inwardly confident, that the universe is designed in such a way that he can win. And it will be a good fight, against insuperable odds, except that Christ has made them superable.