Author - Kathryn Hogan

The Easter Sale is Here!

Easter is the most important holiday of the year, and we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to offer a similarly significant sale to mark the occasion. Our Easter sale is going on from now until May 1. Check out all the deals at Verbum.com/Easter...

Holy Saturday

This guest post was written by Brody Stewart, Verbum Marketing and Promotions and Coordinator. There’s nothing to do on Holy Saturday. For most of the liturgical year, there’s always something to do at church. Whether it’s daily Mass, stations of...

Feast of the Annunciation

Deepen your understanding of the Scriptures with Come and See: Catholic Bible Study Collection! Let’s take an excerpt today’s Gospel reading for the Feast of the Annunciation: In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

For the feast of St. Patrick, enjoy this excerpt from The Confession of St. Patrick: …I was taken captive when a youth, nay, rather, when almost a beardless boy, before I knew what I ought to seek or to avoid. Wherefore, at this day I am...

The Importance of Forgiveness

To help us reflect on the theme of forgiveness from this week’s Mass readings, we feature Tuesday’s Gospel reading from Matthew followed by a short meditation. Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin...

Lenten Moments

This post comes from the CSSI study, Lent: The Road to Redemption. Get weekly “Lenten Moments” delivered to your inbox! Sign up at www.verbum.com/lent. Fasting involves refraining for a time from the satisfaction of human needs...

The Real St. Valentine

Tired of seeing hearts and flowers everywhere? If the holiday clichés of buying candy and flowers don’t hold much meaning for you, celebrate the real St. Valentine, who was a third-century Christian, martyred in Rome on February 14 and buried near...

Using Faithlife This Lent

This guest post is by Alex Renn, Verbum Marketing and Operations Team Lead. Today we’re going to look at Faithlife, Verbum’s social component. This post will give you a basic understanding of how to use Faithlife. In a future video, we’ll take a...

Are You Ready for Lent?

Join the 2015 Lenten Journey! Pope Francis, in one of his general audiences last year, prayed that “each individual member of the faithful and every Church community will undertake a fruitful Lenten journey.” In response, we created the 2014 Verbum...