Today we celebrate a great feast! The feast of All Soul’s Day. It is a great day to REMEMBER and PRAY for those who have died. Our prayers are ACTS OF LOVE and remembrances of them. All acts of love are efficacious — meaning they bear fruit. Because LOVE comes from God alone. […]
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In this time of the liturgical year, the Church asks us to consider our eternal destinies as we celebrate the feast of All Saints, commemorate All Souls, and are encouraged to remember and pray daily for those who have died. With this in mind, I have been pondering the topic of saints and sinners, recognizing that,
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Happy Feast Day, Saint John Paul II! On this day in which the world celebrates the one of our greatest saints and Popes of the Church, I wanted to share some information about the Pope and his connection to the most reported modern day apparition site of our time! Never heard of Medjugorje or have
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Do you want to be a saint? Do you think its something that is beyond your grasp? Something that only the perfect — those who do amazing fasts and penances — or only those who died heroically for Christ can achieve? If this is your idea of sainthood — very few of us
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I wanted to share with you a beautiful movie about Mary that is being released today. Everyone I know that has seen the film has loved it. I was able to show clips of the movie at a retreat I gave on the Holy Family and the those on the retreat were very touched
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This video is simple and unfinished. You must push the pause button in order to read each slide. Today we commemorate the awe inspiring Miracle of the Sun that took place in Fatima, Portugal October 13, 1917. This is an important day for me. It is a day that I long to proclaim the Lord’s
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“Great is the mystery of the faith! This mystery, then, requires that the faithful believe in it, celebrate it, and live from it in a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer” (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church 2558 emphasis mine). To pray the rosary is to enter
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Many Catholics struggle with the Rosary. Some have never prayed it before, others have tried and failed. Some have heard so many negative comments about the Rosary, they are unsure whether its even a valid type of prayer. Maybe you have heard these comments in the past or have even made such
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1. Woo Hoo! My first blog post made it into the National Catholic Register! After receiving the good news in an email from my friend (who shared the post on her blog), I jokingly asked my husband this morning, “So, do you know who you are looking at?” (Wanting to tell him: A contributing author
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I wanted to share with you one of the most beautiful gifts of my life — one of my dearest devotions. It is the Rosary – it is a simple prayer of Our Fathers and Hail Marys and Glory Bes that we pray as we think about the life of Jesus. Intermixed and despite times of
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