If you desire the worship that you give to God to be pleasing to Him and valuable for the salvation of your soul, put it properly into p...

One of my favorite scripture passages is taken from Acts 5:15: The people carried the sick into the streets and laid them on cots an...

One Sunday evening, Father Monnin relates, several young girls--and "not the most fervent ones"--had remained in the church afte...

...He demanded the frequent reception of the sacraments. "Go to Communion, my Brothers, go to Jesus! Go and live by Him, so that yo...

And whether he was talking, hearing confessions, or preaching, he would choke up with tears. Father Vianney had the gift of tears. And abo...

Click here to view U.S. Bishops daily video meditation The Precepts of the Catholic Church 1.  You shall attend Mass on Sundays and...

At Mass on the first Sunday after Father Vianney's arrival, practically the entire parish came to church. A few persons had already...

His church was neither beautiful nor rich. The frame structure above it could not really be called a steeple. Inside, the main altar was...

The first concern of the young priest, as soon as he was alone, was to go and visit his church. There he knelt down and made one of those...

Happy Feast Day to all Carmelites! Although it falls on a Sunday this year, the Carmelite Order remembers Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinit...

Father Courbon, the first of the vicars-general, took over the direction of the Lyons' religious affairs. It was up to him to decide ...

Years later, in a moment of immense gratitude, The cure of Ars said, referring to the hardships of his youth: "When I think of the ca...

John Mary Vianney was now seventeen...The future? Already John Mary Vianney had only one ambition: to be a priest. But he was tormented ...

Father Vianney's memories of his childhood provided him not only a gay palette to give color to his fiery and fertile ideas. They als...

According to Catherine Lassange, one of the primary witnesses to the life of the Cure of Ars, he gave this account of his first confessi...

As a child, he always kept with him the statuette of the Blessed Virgin given him by his mother. Having discovered an ancient willow tree ...

...H is mind, oriented toward God and his calling, was in no sense adapted to purely intellectual speculations. And besides, he knew on...

From the life of St. John Marie Vianney by Michele de Saint Pierre Young Vianney, as we have said, was intelligent, shrewd, extraord...

From the life of St. John Vianney Already little John Mary Vianney had the temperament of the priest he would some day become. At once pract...

An excerpt from the Life of St. John Vianney by Michel de Saint Pierre The official website of St. John Vianney in Ars, France ...