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Ask the Holy Spirit for the fruit of joy on the second day of Novena to the Holy Spirit.

Pray the first day of Novena to the Holy Spirit.

Pray the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary with St Faustina and these extracts from her diary. Walk with St Faustina as she meets the Risen Jesus, is present at the Ascension of Jesus, and as she is visited by Our Lady, and thus enter more deeply into these mysteries of Christ's life and His Mother's.

When the Hawaiian authorities established a leper colony, a prison for the sick and dying, Father Damien volunteered to be the first to minister to them. The young priest went there with a specific intention: he was going to sacrifice his life for the lepers.

The heroism of the martyrs inspires us, their love sets us on fire, their merciful love towards their oppressors offers us an example to follow; their blood and sufferings grace the spiritual treasury of the Church making intercession for all of us so we, like them, may come to know and love Christ.

What is the place for women in the Catholic Church? Find answers in the life of St Catherine of Siena, who carved her own path in 14th-century Italy, and whose influential friends included the Pope, who was convinced by the saint to return the home of the Papacy from Avignon to Rome.