By ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 04:00 am Every Jan. 3, the Church celebrates the Most Holy Name of Jesus. In the words of St. Bernadine of Siena: “This is that most holy name longed for by the patriarchs, anxiously awaited, called upon amid cries of suffering, …

Saint Raymond of Penafort, a Dominican priest who worked to aid Christian captives during the era of the Crusades and also helped organize the Church’s legal code, will be celebrated liturgically on Jan. 7. A contemporary of Saint Thomas Aquinas, he inspired the theologian to write the “Summa Contra Gentiles” …