Angelus Prayer
Maybe you’re thinking that you’d like to add more prayer times to your day, but you don’t know how to do it since you have a busy life. How about the Angelus? This venerable prayer, which goes back centuries, can be prayed any time of the day, but the traditional times to pray it are […]
Express Your Sorrow for Sin
“If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not […]
Desiring to Receive Our Lord in Holy Communion
Maybe you work long hours. Maybe you’re a stay-at-home mom with little ones. Maybe you’re dealing with an illness. Maybe you can’t sIeep at night. These are just a few of the situations when you can make a spiritual communion, “an act of faith and love toward Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with an […]
Making Reparation to Our Lord
Have you ever stopped to think about what sin really is? Any sin–whether mortal or venial–offends God, and we should make reparation to him for our sins and those of others. Ways we can make reparation include going to Mass, visiting the Blessed Sacrament, praying, and making sacrifices. One special prayer of reparation is a […]
Act of Love by St. John Marie Vianney
In his famous passage on love (charity), St. Paul tells us: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so […]
Acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity
In our busy lives when it can be all too easy to lose sight of God, it is helpful to memorize a number of short prayers that we can pray when we have a spare moment or two, or when we are doing something which doesn’t require our full concentration. One easy way (at least […]
Show Your Love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
The First Friday of every month is a day when we traditionally honor the Sacred Heart. Our Lord told St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: “I promise you in the unfathomable mercy of My Heart that My omnipotent love will procure the grace of final penitence for all those who receive Communion on nine successive first Fridays […]
To Jesus through Mary!
Mary our Mother’s mission is to lead us safely to Heaven to be with the Holy Trinity forever and ever. “Devotion to the Blessed Virgin in no way detracts from the Glory of God. Rather, it leads us directly back to that Author of all good, Who has willed her to be so great and […]