Articles in 'Prayers & Devotionals'
Are you losing the battle for your adult child's spiritual life?
Are you losing the battle for your adult child's spiritual life?
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
You did everything right as a parent. You took your child to Mass each Sunday, holy days of obligation, and sacrificed to pay a Catholic School tuition bill. Now, your child is an adult and no longer wants anything to do with the Church. Where did you go wrong?
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Perfect People Need Not Apply
Perfect People Need Not Apply
By Mary Rivers
Unclean am I with unclean lips, Living among people of unclean hearts, Tasting wicked delights, laments Isaiah- “Woe, am I”.
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Jesus makes all things new. 2019 is a sign of that.
Jesus makes all things new. 2019 is a sign of that.
By Lisa Mayer
There's something hopeful about a new year. Somehow, it gives us permission to let go of the things that were so bad the year before. Or, at the very least, it gives us hope that things are going to get better.
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Dictum Meum Pactum
Dictum Meum Pactum
By Victor S E Moubarak
The motto of The London Stock Exchange is Dictum Meum Pactum - My Word Is My Bond. This dates back to the days when stocks and shares dealers used to make verbal deals as to whether to buy or sell company shares from each other and at what price.
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Our crippling crisis of trust
Our crippling crisis of trust
By Catholic365
We often sit toward the front in church. It’s easier to hear and see and partake. Occasionally, someone very tall will sit directly in front of us and block our view.
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A Sky Full of Stars: Know Mary through her titles in the Litany
A Sky Full of Stars: Know Mary through her titles in the Litany
By Joby Provido
Let’s play a quick game. I will mention a nickname, and you tell me to whom it refers.
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The Unspoken Reason Young People Aren't Answering the Call
The Unspoken Reason Young People Aren't Answering the Call
By Katie Zalany
A close colleague of mine and I were eating lunch the other day. Her son is in the seminary right now and she is observing the process of discernment that he and other seminarians are going through. I too am in a discernment process and we sometimes discuss it.
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Are Non-Catholics a Gold Mine for Vocations?
Are Non-Catholics a Gold Mine for Vocations?
By Kevin J. Banet
There’s a small but sure growth in vocations in the United States, thanks be to God. Most of us think of good Catholic families as the best source for vocations. But what about non-Catholics?
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Offering One's Own Life to Save a Life vs. Rejoicing in Sanctions that Destroy Life; The Paradox that is Humanity is Inexplicable
Offering One's Own Life to Save a Life vs. Rejoicing in Sanctions that Destroy Life; The Paradox that is Humanity is Inexplicable
By Larry Peterson
New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed into law the Reproductive Health Act, on January 22, 2019, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The intentional signing of this bill on that day and the cheering that followed brought me back to a day 40 years earlier. The date was September 6, 1978. For my young family that was also a day about the life and death of a baby.
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God's love for terrorists
God's love for terrorists
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
Does God love terrorists and do those who commit atrocities against innocent lives have value and worth in the eyes of God? Have you heard of Bashir Mohammad, Kamal Saleem, or Alo-Bridget Namoa? The chances are slim you may have heard of them, but perhaps you have heard of St. Paul the Apostle.
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Visitation Friends Chat, and One of Them Wonders, Should She Join the Convent?
Visitation Friends Chat, and One of Them Wonders, Should She Join the Convent?
By Kevin J. Banet
Saint Francis de Sales is known as a master of the spiritual life. One of the religious orders that he helped found is the Visitation Sisters. The discussion below, which has been abridged, is from the “Living Jesus Chat Room,” which takes place every Sunday on the website of the Second Federation of the Visitation Sisters.
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Childlike Trust and Confession
Childlike Trust and Confession
By Sinclair Cushmore
The Sacrament of Confession may be one of the least received Sacraments in the Church today. Even those who go to Sunday every week might find it difficult to muster the courage to tell their faults and shortcomings to their local parish priest.
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The Holy Eucharist
The Holy Eucharist
By Ralph Hathaway
At Mass, the priest elevates the host for all to see, and says the words of our Salvation: “This is My Body”! Similarly he does the same with the Chalice of wine saying, “This is My Blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many”. (Mark 14: 22-24)
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The Beautiful Gift of the Eucharist
The Beautiful Gift of the Eucharist
By Katie Zalany
The Eucharist had become a treasured gift to me over the last few years. There are three words I would use to describe my experience of the Eucharist: Sustenance. Nourishment. Peace.
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The Great Deception
The Great Deception
By Susan Skinner
I went to bed after having saying prayers ready for a restful nights sleep, but it was not to be. I was startled awake by a sensation pouring over my body, and a weight pressed so strongly into my soul, it physically pressed me into my bed. And the Lord spoke a word to me. “MERCY.”
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An Open Letter to My Aborted Daughter, Nicole
An Open Letter to My Aborted Daughter, Nicole
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
I watched the movie, Gosnell, last night because I felt I owed you that. To know precisely what was done to you all those years ago, while I slept, unconscious. I thought I would sob through the entire film; instead, I was dry-eyed throughout. I could think of little else all evening as I thought about the woman I had been and what I did to you.
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March for Rash Judgments
March for Rash Judgments
By E.M. McCarthy
This past weekend in the U.S. an amazing and edited viral video took us into a horrible world of rash judgments.
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