bringing with Him a wonderful message of Mercy for all mankind. Sister Faustina Kowalska tells us in her diary under this date:"In the evening, when I was in my cell, I became aware of the Lord Jesus clothed in a white garment. One hand was raised in blessing, the other was touching...
how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
Each evening, we say some appropriate Advent prayers as a family and then tell each other the “simple gifts” we’ve offered during the day. The children come to me, and I give them a stick corresponding with the gift. The little ones eagerly put them in the box. Our 15-year-old ...
Wednesday evening is the first night of the very cool and very unique Tenebrae service, done only Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Holy Week. We do an at home version withthis very cool Tenebrae Hearse Candelabra. But you can also use any 15 candles you’ve got in a drawer someplace.G...
prayers weren’t “normal” and that she had Catholic friends check the book out. She was convinced that it was a book for priests. She accused me of wanting to be a priest or thinking I was a priest. I felt a pain like never before that day. After hours of trying to convince her...
(Unlike our quiet rosary prayers who stand on the grass).It’s clear then, that Rupa Huq sees both sides as a nuisance and equally vexatious. Which begs the question, why does she regularly join in and lead the protestors such as she did this weekend, the day AFTER she had called ...
Evening came, and morning followed–the second day. Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear.” And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, ...
He said, "warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany," "fervent prayers which the Catholics in Germany are sending to heaven on their altars".[Hitler's Pope: The Secret Life of Pius XII] He added concern to the pact with the Reich over...
“prayers or good works required of the penitent (Catholic) by the priest who has heard his confession. This penance satisfies in part for the sins confessed” (A Practical Catholic Dictionary, p. 170). Through penance, the Roman Catholic seeks to appease God by personally participating in the...