Purity is an eminently positive virtue, which gains the grace of God for the person who lives it. It is the virtue of the beautiful and spotless soul. It elevates us to things divine. These ten ...

Twelve Reasons From The Teachings Of The Church For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament "The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic adoration." ...

It doesn't scream "love thy enemy" or "blessed are the meek". After all, Trump has not demonstrated a love of piety or devotion to church previously. When asked to name a favourite biblical verse ...

Even fewer players managed to get one of the few legendaries that were in the game like Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker. While some legendaries are random drops, others require you to ...

Ireland’s top names in food, farming, and culture will converge in Kells this weekend for the highly anticipated Samhain Festival of Food and Culture, with Sheridan’s Irish Food Fair. With an ...

Halloween, known in Ireland as Samhain, traces its origins back a thousand years to Celtic traditions. Many of today's popular Halloween customs in North America actually originated in Ireland. The ...

Scholars believe that the spectral aspects of Halloween emerged primarily from Samhain, an ancient Celtic ... children came dressed as saints and blessed of the Catholic Church and as angels.” ...

The Connection with Celtic Samhain: Why Are the Dead Celebrated the Day After? Anthropologist James Frazer noted that All Saints' Day was already celebrated in England on November 1st before the ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced “sow-win”) was celebrated on October 31, which planted the seed that would lead to ...

Samhain is one of the four major quarter days of the ancient Celtic calendar. It marks the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, or the end of the light half and the beginning of the ...