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Saturday, November 7, 2026

666: Mark of the Beast and How To Avoid It - Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar (video title)

St. Anthony of Padua, pray for us!

St. Anthony of Padua came through again!

Hubby’s phone had bowed out from the battery overheating, and he had to leave it off and no charging. I thank the good Lord it didn’t start a fire!

Best Buy didn’t have the one he wanted in stock a week ago, so he ordered it. (We had some rewards to use up from replacing our old tv that was dying last month.) The phone order was delayed, so he ordered another from Verizon. The first phone was going to take a week after it was supposed to arrive (was supposed to be this past Tuesday and delayed until this coming Monday) and the Verizon shipment the day after that. Whichever showed up first, he would keep. However, since we can afford it, and our kids' phones are getting older, the extra will become a replacement for the kid with the oldest phone so she has a good phone before transferring out of town to finish college next year.

Last night, I asked St. Anthony to help. This morning, the Best Buy order showed up, and the delivery said only weekday delivery… This is Saturday.

I knew St. Anthony was the patron saint for deliveries from a story of the 18th century merchant wife asking him to get a letter to her husband from Spain to the Americas (Peru).

St. Anthony of Padua, thank you!

Sunday, November 1, 2026

Those who live with Christ after death are Saints... All Saints Day (videos)

The word "saint" basically means "holy", which is someone who seeks God with all their heart and soul by perfecting the virtues, disavowing vice, and seeking perfection in all God's commandments. Those who have been canonized have undergone great scrutiny to confirm them as saints in heaven. Pray for their assistance whenever you need intercession for help. For they are in the presence of the Lord, and their prayers are stronger than ours. The church is the body of Christ, so we are all together. God wants us to love each other and serve one another and Christ said as much. He lets the saints continue to serve from heaven those still living in this "valley of tears", where we are still learning to love as the saints in heaven do.

Become holy... Become a saint!

Have a blessed All Saints Day!