Articles in 'Prayers & Devotionals'
Silent Retreat - For Me, Really???
Silent Retreat - For Me, Really???
By Karen Cubberly
My sentiments exactly when my spiritual director suggested that I attend one. I asked him outright, “Are you kidding?” I thought he was either joking or making it my penance. But he assured me that it was not my penance (I am quite a social person so being silent for any amount of time besides sleeping is not easy).
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Sometimes Mercy, Sometimes Grace
Sometimes Mercy, Sometimes Grace
By Helen Losse
It is the Year of Jubilee. I walked through Holy Doors, prayed an “Our Father,” spoke quietly to Mary. I enjoyed special mercy only God can impart on Tuesday in Charlotte at the Cathedral.
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Answers to four objections to the Catholic Church
Answers to four objections to the Catholic Church
By De Maria
The archaeological evidence for that period shows that all the first Churches practiced the same rites the Catholic Church practices today. They had the baptismal fonts, the altar, the holy water, the incense, the candles, the vessels, the vestments. All the same as the Catholic Church today. None of which any Protestants have today.
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A Catholic Love Story & The Role of Divine Mercy.
A Catholic Love Story & The Role of Divine Mercy.
By Robert E.J. Campbell
I love my wife......, no really, I love my wife, and I am on unapologetic about it. I thank God, not nearly enough, for the gift that she is. Her love is reflective of God's love, and I am so grateful for that. So what's the big deal anyway, shouldn't every husband show love for his wife?
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Is the Bible the Only Word of God?
Is the Bible the Only Word of God?
By Kevin Noles
First off, nowhere in the Bible does it say that the Bible is the sole, God-inspired source we have. This is a traditional construct of man which contradicts the Bible. The burden of proof lays with John on this. He must demonstrate that the Bible is the only source of the Word of God.
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Opus
Opus
By Nathan James Rawlins
We are attempting to answer the question: what is the Church? In attempting to answer this question we look first to the episode of creation from Genesis chapter 2. The text constructs reality as we know it by using relationships and we can appreciate that Scripture picks up on the biological perspective in finding relation to all living things through the soil.
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Discover or Rediscover Catholicism!
Discover or Rediscover Catholicism!
By Lorrie McNickle
Nobody needs to do this more than us Cradle Catholics, me included. I have started this quest. I realized a few years ago just how ignorant I was about the Catholic Faith, although I have been a practicing Catholic all my life.
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Seek Jesus
Seek Jesus
By Norma Elaine Robertson
My little foster brother was cutting a paper at the kitchen table, then he said, "I make Jesus really super happy." I asked, "How?" He said, "Wait. I'll show you." Then he finished cutting his paper and gave it to me. He drew Jesus on the cross with a smile on His face. My little brother said Jesus was dead but he made Him happy.
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Hail, Holy Queen, a meditation on the prayer
Hail, Holy Queen, a meditation on the prayer
By De Maria
Hail, Holy Queen, Because you are the Queen of Heaven. The mother of Jesus Christ, the King of Heaven.
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Metamorphosis and the Post Vatican II Church
Metamorphosis and the Post Vatican II Church
By Nathan James Rawlins
The Monarch butterfly is a magnificent creature. It lives to migrate as many other creatures do, following the milkweed bloom and spending the winters in Mexico. The migration is never really complete though, it is both continuous and mysterious. If we begin our observation with the Monarch leaving Mexico and heading back towards Canada
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Do You Long for a ‘Burning Bush' Moment?
Do You Long for a ‘Burning Bush' Moment?
By Bill Dunn
Do you ever have times when it seems like God is so distant, you start to wonder if He even hears your prayers? Well, you’re not alone. Even the great saint Mother Teresa went through long spells where she could not sense the presence of God.
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Baptism His and Ours
Baptism His and Ours
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
Baptism. Most us were not aware of what was happening. Our parents made the decision for us when we were blissfully unaware. And in this twenty-first-century, more and more parents choose not to baptize their child. The stated reasons vary. But these are a sample of those I hear and read. 'We don't need church to be spiritual', 'we can pray anywhere'.
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Can you be Engaged? Can you "Get It"?
Can you be Engaged? Can you "Get It"?
By Lorrie McNickle
We just don’t get it and we are not engaging ourselves. Most of us remain very lukewarm Catholics, and not just in our daily practice of our Faith, but in our weekly obligation of Mass.
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Who is that woman Babylon?
Who is that woman Babylon?
By De Maria
Protestants claim that the woman, Babylon, in Revelations, Chapters 17 and 18, is a reference to the Catholic Church. A study of the Scriptures does not bear this out.
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Blessed William Carter
Blessed William Carter
By Christy Breedlove
I like to read about dead people—obscure saints in particular. Odd macabre hobby but it’s not usually something that will get me admitted to a mental health facility, unless I start communing with the dead. I try to find a correlation between my obscure saint of the week and my harried life.
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Our Lady Untier of Knots: A Personal Reflection
Our Lady Untier of Knots: A Personal Reflection
By Frank J. Maduri
In reflecting on the Feast of the Epiphany earlier today with the three kings finding the Child Jesus in the arms of His mother, Mary, I began my afternoon prayers. One of my routine practices in the past 18 months or more is to pray to Our Lady Untier of Knots. In my quiet contemplation today, I thought of how I was introduced to this new prayer devotion and decided to share it with this audience
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Reflections of Faith: Part Four, Finding Faith
Reflections of Faith: Part Four, Finding Faith
By Allison Brown
When my husband and I were dating I was far away from the Church. Years of being dragged to Sunday Mass and sitting through boring sermons that I did not understand how or why they related to my life was no great loss for me. Or so I foolishly thought, anyway.
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