“For the honour of the Blessed Trinity, the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian life, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and our own, after due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and havin...
Catholicism, Recovery, Sobriety, Conversion, Prayer, Fasting, Repentance, Penance Search I will be on EWTN Radio in January! Posted onNovember 27, 2024 Reply A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Bear Woznick, of “Bear’s School of Manliness,” atSpirit of Adventure Ministries. His show,...
Within a year of his election to the papacy, John Paul II visited Poland and pointedly stopped at Auschwitz, where he publicly knelt in prayer to commemorate the Jews murdered there. In 1986, he became the first pope to ever visit a Jewish house of worship when he dramatically entered Rome...
. . . The grief at punishment will then be without the fruit of repentance; weeping will be useless, and prayer ineffectual. Too late will they believe in eternal punishment, who would not believe in eternal life” (To Demetrian 24 [A.D. 252]). Lactantius “[T]he sacred writings ...
Raised in the Catholic Church, Deacon Lou shares his struggle with alcoholism, his path to sobriety, and the life-changing moment when he surrendered to God. Through raw and honest storytelling, he opens up about how his faith was rekindled, the power of prayer, and his miraculous recovery ...
We see in it also an answer to prayer, and an act of the power of God. It has once more saved the head and centre of Christianity from outrage and sacrilege ; and they who gave their lives in the defence of Christianity may be numbered with the martyrs. But over that field of ...
When I bring a difficult situation in my marriage to the Lord, an odd thing happens. Somewhere in the middle of my prayer (which goes something like, “So help me God, you BETTER do something about this RIGHT NOW because if you think for one minute that I’m going to be loving….”...
The Vatican announced late Saturday that due to inclement weather and cold symptoms that manifested in recent days, Pope Francis will lead the Sunday Angelus prayer from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta rather than the usual Apostolic Palace window, also in view of next week's commitments.Pope Fr...
When school began again in the fall, I posed my questions to Olivia and later met Andy, my eventual confirmation sponsor, to talk through my objections to Catholicism. These conversations alongside deep prayer, study, the intercession of Our Lady and St. Thomas Aquinas, and, most importantly,...
We’re also the ones who get stressed out when visitors are coming over to the house – not because we have an “image” to uphold or that we are trying so much to “impress” the guests. But, more because we want everyone to have a pleasant experience. We want the food to satisfy...