Articles in 'Prayers & Devotionals'
The Three Most Powerful Words
The Three Most Powerful Words
By Danielle Castellucci
He is risen! Three little words; and yet, their meaning is beyond comprehension. In those three little words, the words that defy reality, death, our only surety in this life, is defeated. No longer will we rot in our graves. In Christ we are promised to rise to a life more glorious than this, one with no tears, sorrow, pain, suffering, insects, predators, terrorism, politics, natural disasters,
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Spring Cleaning for the Heart
Spring Cleaning for the Heart
By Carol Ann Chybowski
Spring is here! Okay, technically it’s been here for a while, if you believe the calendar. And the seed catalogues-my favorite wish books. But the best part of this time of the year is that it is also springtime for the heart.
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Skirts and Veils: A Guideline for Adoration
Skirts and Veils: A Guideline for Adoration
By Liana Eisenman-Wolford
Catholic Moms of Rochester recently hosted an Adoration night: to gather with the Blessed Sacrament for an hour, then adjourn for dessert and social time. Preparing myself, I changed from my regular mom clothes into a skirt. A change in wardrobe helps to effect a change in mindset, increasing anticipation of time spent with Christ.
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When Jesus Came to Birmingham
When Jesus Came to Birmingham
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Kennedy wrote this poem during what was called ‘the great disillusion’ of the 1920’s. The English empire was crumbling, the moral certainty of the Victorian age was eroding leaving in its place only skepticism, cynicism and materialism.
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Make your faith a full-time job
Make your faith a full-time job
By Charlie Johnston
You see Scriptures are like that. Sometimes years later, something you heard, once before will come back to your mind and make sense like it never did before. Like the Jesus' parable about the sower sowing seeds, sometime seeds take a long time to start growing, but if they fall on fertile soil they will eventually grow
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What We Do At Mass
What We Do At Mass
By Casey Truelove
How many of us have gone to Mass our whole lives, and know how to do all of the things at Mass, but don't really know the big picture of what we're actually doing? What about Mass is so special that the Catholic Church requires us to attend every Sunday and every Holy Day of Obligation?
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Prayer Advice From The Saints
Prayer Advice From The Saints
By Kathy Lamb
When I had my conversion I started to see things differently, more clearly but I didn’t understand how I could be having a conversion. I was baptized a Catholic as a baby. My parents struggled to send all their ten kids to Catholic school. I always considered myself a Catholic but spiritually I wasn’t as connected to God as I should be.
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Slay Your Porn Addiction by Enrolling in the Angelic Warfare Confraternity
Slay Your Porn Addiction by Enrolling in the Angelic Warfare Confraternity
By Charlie Johnson
Join thousands of other lay-folk, priests and religious in the Angelic Warfare Confraternity and slay your porn addiction. This Confraternity is an ancient, Church approved, Dominican run Confraternity of brothers and sisters who want to fight for chastity together and do it under the patronage of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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The Four Chaplains
The Four Chaplains
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Before boarding the United States Army Transport ship Dorchester back in January, 1943, a Dutch Reformed Chaplain named Poling asked his father to pray for him, "Not for my safe return, that wouldn't be fair. Just pray that I shall do my duty...never be a coward...and have the strength, courage and understanding of men. Just pray that I shall be adequate."
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Write to inspire a greater love of God.
Write to inspire a greater love of God.
By Kathy Lamb
“If we saw the Church as she is in the most generous souls who live most truly the life of the Church, she would appear most beautiful in our sight, despite the human imperfections which are mingled with the activity of her children.
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How a Cloistured Nun and a Scottie Dog Brought Me Home
How a Cloistured Nun and a Scottie Dog Brought Me Home
By Leslie Shaw Klinger
Mother Angelica passed away on Easter Sunday passed, at the age of 92. A lifetime of pain, sorrow, suffering and great accomplishment is finished here on earth. A lifetime of immense power, strength and great deeds now begins.
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Out of the Mouths of Babes: Gestures that speak louder than words
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Gestures that speak louder than words
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
Noticing the pained expression on her grandmother’s face and seeing that her grandmother’s eyes were closing, the grandchild took matters into her own hands—literally. Without a word, she held her grandmother’s head, giving her two “smacking” kisses—one on each cheek!
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Heal our Hurts Oh Lord, Have Mercy On Us.
Heal our Hurts Oh Lord, Have Mercy On Us.
By Elizabeth Thomas
Today is the feast of Divine Mercy, celebrating the love and goodness of an Awesome God that sent us His Son and gave us eternal life because of the great sacrifice of love that Jesus gave to us. Lord have mercy on us and My Jesus I trust in You, are two simple little prayers that can be whispered almost every second of the day as we go through our lives
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Ignatius of Antioch and the Way of the Cross...
Ignatius of Antioch and the Way of the Cross...
By Carlos Espinosa
It is one thing to say you are willing to die for your beliefs but it's another to actually do it. As far as I'm concerned, that's the true measure of a man; having the faith and fortitude to stand up for one's beliefs, even at the risk of certain peril.
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Rainbow of a Life
Rainbow of a Life
By Grace Waters
White. A grey head bobs up and down under the gentle fall of snow. An old woman, burdened under a load of groceries from the corner store, makes her way home. Blank faces busied with their own lives ignore the passing figure. She reflects on her humble Cavalry; she is dying
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Living the Year of Mercy
Living the Year of Mercy
By Danielle Castellucci
Pope Francis has declared December 8, 2015-November 20, 2016 the Year of Mercy. For me, mercy brings to mind forgiveness. God’s repeated and inexhaustible forgiveness is perhaps one of the greatest mercies He affords us. That even though sinners, we are not only forgiven, but saved by His Son.
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By His Wounds We Are Healed: Honoring the Five Sacred Wounds of Jesus
By His Wounds We Are Healed: Honoring the Five Sacred Wounds of Jesus
By Bobbie Ann Taylor
One of the blessings of sharing on Catholic365 is that as I research to verify what I “know,” I learn additional things that I didn’t know! …And that is precisely what happened as I prepared for this article about devotion to the Five Sacred Wounds of Jesus.
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