A Word From Our Foundress

Finally!  A website to help families and individuals join in the Catholic Church’s declared mission of this 20^th Century . . . 
"The Restoration of All Things in Christ."

Mindful of the ancient adage that it is better to light a candle than to sit and curse the darkness, St. Michael the Archangel On-Line was created. St. Michael, God’s Prince of the heavenly Hosts and defender of the Catholic Church, is the chosen Patron of this Website. We ask St. Michael to protect and guide us and all those who desire to take part in the restoration and renewal of our precious Catholic Culture.

The purpose of this website is to bring you the "Catholic perspective" – the Light of Divine Revelation handed down from the Apostles by the Teaching Magisterium of the Catholic Church – which has been all but lost in today’s society to the secular "Hollywood perspective" of moral relativism and Godless humanism.

This website will give you easy access to the tools given by the Catholic Church to immerse families and individuals in the Truth of the Gospel. We will do it in the most practical way possible. We will set before you insights and direction as to how to live the Liturgical Cycle of the Life of our Lord as seen so simply in the daily Mass and Liturgical Hours. What better way could Holy Mother Church give us than this way to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in the 33 years He lived on this earth!

There is a wealth of information about the Liturgical Life of the Church. To access the accumulated wisdom of almost 2000 years, we are privileged to avail ourselves of the Holy Father’s Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei. This grants the use of the original Church Calendar and therefore the countless commentaries, direction and writings of Saints, Fathers, Doctors, and numerous scholars of the Church’s Liturgical Year. These can then be adapted as desired for family life and even to the new Calendar.

At your fingertips each day will be insights, ideas and details on the magnificent traditions of the Catholic Church which have been all but forgotten today. (See The Liturgical Year and Religious Celebrations and Customs for Children.)

If you follow the readings and essays on this website, you will help yourself become formed in accordance with time-tested proven virtues both natural and supernatural. By helping families to walk with Jesus, in Jesus, and for Jesus, in their daily lives, the living of the Catholic Liturgical Year will bring us to our ultimate aim which is Heaven, as Our Lord Himself promised to those who follow Him.

The information provided on this website will be taken and adapted from books and articles which are in conformity with the consistent teaching of Holy Mother Church. All books used have the Catholic imprimatur and Nihil Obstat insuring against error. At St. Michael the Archangel On-Line, we honor our beloved Pope John Paul II.. We believe there is indeed such a thing as a moral absolute . . . despite the constant denial of such by secular gurus like Dan Rather on the nightly network news. As the Church states, there is a fixed and unchangeable mode of Christ-like conduct, a sacred deposit of Divinely revealed unchangeable Truths and Ordinances beginning with the 10 Commandments of God. Conformity with these will make each individual the "salt of the earth" (Matt 5:13) and "light of the world" (Matt 5:14) which, with the help of His Grace, Jesus commanded each of His followers to be in this world.

This simple concept of every day people like us bringing the leaven of the Gospel into the affairs of men – of us being "salt and light", spans Old and New Testament. As one of our first grade students at St. Michael ‘s Academy said to his mom as they discussed today’s society and how we must be noticeably different from it in order to influence it for the best: ". . . Mom, as God said to Abraham, "We must be a people set apart." That’s the only way we can enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

If today’s world grasped that simple thought and strove to bring Jesus to men by example, we would not be engulfed in the tide of the Culture of Death. We would not be grieving over constant tragedies like the one in Colorado at Columbine High.

If we are to authentically model our daily lives on Jesus Himself, then we must learn Jesus. To do this we start with daily Prayer. There are three prayers God gave us which can teach us Christ and Him Crucified:

• The Rosary
• The Holy Mass
• The Divine Office

At Fatima, the Mother of God told us to say the Rosary daily. Such a simple tool to help us meditate every day on the most important events in Jesus’ life.

The Catholic Church puts before us the daily life of Jesus in Her Liturgical Year. If we learn the meaning of these daily readings given in the Mass and Divine Office, we will be able to conform our daily lives to Jesus even down to the finest details. That means we will be Saints!

These are the tools for holiness --- for peace on earth to men of good will.

Join us ON-LINE and discover the tools to be part of the Church’s great mission of the 20^th Century . . . The Restoration of All Things In Christ!