The Perfect Prayer Fidelity to Daily Prayer Openness to the Gospel A Cornerstone of Grace Perceiving the Presence of God Public Repentance Protected by the Good Shepherd All In, Never Waver Courage to Conquer Fear Your Protector and Guide A Life of Ongoing Conversion A Well-Ordered Soul The Cele...
he left her and turned toward his sleep-place to do her bidding. Before entering his little recess, he looked back once toward that part of the cave where Mary knelt upon her couch in prayer, her back to him, her face toward the east. He saw the cave filled with ...
For all Christians Lent is a time to renew ourselves in penance, prayer, and good works. For Roman Catholics it is also a moment for formal repentance of sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, for how can we come to the Easter Banquet with the road’s dust and dirt clinging to us?
In the prayer for giving communion to the sick (Corpus Christi Missal) we read: “O God, who hast willed that sins should be forgiven by the imposition of the hands of the priest.” and then follows the absolution: “We absolve thee as representatives of blessed Peter, Prince of the ...
9 Days Powerful Novena Prayer to God the Holy Spirit Prayer to God the Holy Spirit Prayer for The 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit Prayer of Consecration to the Holy Spirit Invocations to the Holy Spirit Prayer of Invocations to the Holy Spirit ...
essentially an extension of the first. We become the change we wish to see in others and in reforming our own lives we can serve as examples for others. They want what we have. There is also the transformation at the spiritual level: our acts of prayer and repentance in some manner affe...
Novena for Lent- Every year, the Church enters into the season of Lent for forty days before Easter. Lent is a season for increased prayer, penance, and almsgiving. Novena for Letting Go- There are many different things that we might need to let go of in our lives. Whenever such things...
All we have to do is run to Him and confess with sincere hearts. Real repentance, though, requires the humility it takes to give Him our lives—to commit to obey Him (even if we don’t understand His reasons). This is the way we can find shelter under His wings. When we do ...
Many years ago, shortly after the start of my faith journey, I received some very good advice from an Anglican friend of mine. Or rather, I received a very good prayer. She told me that whenever she was anxious or worried or stressed about anything, she resorted to a prayer that ran ...
at Thornfield, a conversion not unrelated to his prayer and penitence (“I began to see and acknowledge thehand of Godin my doom. I began to experience remorse, repentance, the wish for reconcilement to my Maker. I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were but very sincere”)...