Articles in 'Prayers & Devotionals'
The Font in the Fields: The Liturgical Movement Alive in Rural Kentucky
The Font in the Fields: The Liturgical Movement Alive in Rural Kentucky
By Anthony Cecil, Jr.
Often times, I’ve found that people are surprised to discover that summertime for a seminarian isn’t two and a half months of vacation. Most of the time, we are assigned to parishes, hospitals, or other sites for ministry internships, which take up the majority of, and sometimes all of, our summer breaks.
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Sometimes
Sometimes
By Helen Losse
amid life’s bustle, we let worldly habits take hold and fester
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Caught Not Simply Taught, Then Swept Into The Heart of The Church
Caught Not Simply Taught, Then Swept Into The Heart of The Church
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Christianity is above all an experiential faith, a living relationship with Christ. A Christian is not a person who merely accumulates intellectual knowledge about God nor simply fulfills tradition and the letter of the law. Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have repeatedly emphasized that Christianity is an encounter with Jesus.
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Leave it all behind, even if only for a minute.
Leave it all behind, even if only for a minute.
By Fr. Bede Camera, O.S.B.
We can’t do that, can we? Just up and leave everything: fishing nets, homes, family, friends, career, hobbies, interests, concerns, fears, hopes, preoccupations, obsessions, weaknesses of body, soul and spirit, habits, thoughts, emotions, medical conditions, mistakes, regrets, resentments, grudges, finances, knick knacks, furnishings, computers, cell phones, accomplishments and sources of pride,
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A Girl Named Ava Made Her First Communion This Morning.
A Girl Named Ava Made Her First Communion This Morning.
By Teresa Hurst
While that might seem to be a common enough occurrence, there were a few variables that set this occasion apart. She was a bit older than the usual age of seven for this Sacrament—she looked to be around thirteen years old. It’s also the end of summer and a normal, ordinary, run-of-the-mill weekday, instead of a select Saturday in May.
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Not my will, but Yours
Not my will, but Yours
By Rebecca Downs
If you would have told me even just one year ago that my life would be today as it was I wouldn’t believe it. For even up until today, in some ways, I’m still more focused on my own plan and my own will than God’s.
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Allowing the Grace of God
Allowing the Grace of God
By Allison Brown
How is it as mothers that we are able to time and time again reach that exhausting, I- have- had -enough, point only to face it again in the near or distant future?
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How to overcome Depression and Self-hate
How to overcome Depression and Self-hate
By Erika Wehrly
I am not an expert, but I struggled with depression and self-hate for many years in the past. I recently came across a forum post about depression. This person was suffering, considering suicide and reaching out to the internet for support. Many others admitted to feeling the same way as the original poster and did their best to offer helpful suggestions.
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Modern Day Sadducees and Pharisees
Modern Day Sadducees and Pharisees
By John C Prejean Sr.
Social media sites have provided a platform for the new age of Sadducees & Pharisees in the Catholic Church and yet, nobody seems to recognize it. There are just as many supposed “Catholic” sites and pages as there are Protestant churches! The sad part of it all is that each one claims to be preaching Roman Catholicism yet, most of them disagree with each others view or version of it.
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Living Words
Living Words
By Bernice Pillart Dumitru
If I am ever in need of recharging my spiritual life I read the life of a Saint. Inevitably I sense my whole being reoriented toward God. Providentially the inspiration of that particular Saint will be exactly what I need in my life at that time.
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Which is Preferable: Mercy or Perfection?
Which is Preferable: Mercy or Perfection?
By Carol Ann Chybowski
In one Gospel, the Pharisees challenge Jesus because he has allowed his disciples to pick grain from the fields as they pass through. The investigator in me really wants to know where they were going on the Sabbath, and what they were talking about just before this exchange... Were Jesus and his disciples on their wat somewhere to celebrate the Sabbath and the Pharisees interrupted his teaching?
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How You Respond to What You Lose, Tells You What You Worship
How You Respond to What You Lose, Tells You What You Worship
By Katie Zalany
Ever had a loss in your life : a relationship, a family member, a home, a job? Losses come in many shapes and sizes.
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How should a Christian respond to evil?
How should a Christian respond to evil?
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
From the murder of Father Jacques Hamel in France, to the recent murder of two nuns in Mississippi, it seems as evil continues to hit closer and closer home to the Church.
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What is "sound doctrine"?
What is "sound doctrine"?
By De Maria
Doctrine means Teaching. Strangely enough, it also means Tradition. Yes, Tradition means Teaching. Let me show you.
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Am I faithful?
Am I faithful?
By James Dsouza
So now when I am once again going through a situation in my life, I always see how Lord has always been there. Even in the storm, my Lord would tell me ‘Come forth. Keep walking. You will not drown’. With problems came graces and it helped me to keep walking ahead with joy and belief which has strengthened my faith to a new level.
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No Stigmata For Me!
No Stigmata For Me!
By Kathy Lamb
When I was very young, still in school, I loved reading stories of Saints blessed with Stigmata, St. Frances, St. Gemma and my patron saint, St. Catherine of Sienna. I especially liked hearing about the Stigmata of Padre Pio who lived and died in my lifetime. Stigmata was real to me. I thought, “even Padre Pio experienced Stigmata.” I asked myself, “What if I get Stigmata?”
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Mystical Experience
Mystical Experience
By Will Campbell
Imagine a monk the middle of the desert. He hasn't eaten for 30 days. He is in continous prayer, offering himself to God through the sacrifice of his bodily desires. He speaks with God interiorly
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