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Anniversary Novena- Wedding anniversaries can be a wonderful opportunity to renew our commitment to our spouse and to the vocation of marriage. Annunciation Novena- Novena for the feast of the Annunciation, when the angel announced Jesus’ birth to Mary and she agreed. ...
“It is the total ministry of service, prayer, love and witness, throughout the year, which is used to bring new life to the parish” (Local Church Evangelism, edited by David Wright and Alastair Gray, p. 85). To be reminded of our calling to be faithful in service, prayer, love an...
Among the occasions to consider as opportunities for family prayer and celebration include the feasts of the Church year, the anniversary of your child’s Baptism, New Year’s Day, and the start of a new school year. Blessings in Times of Transition and Difficulty God walks ...
At every baptism, and on your baptism anniversary, remind yourself and each other how incarnated and particular this grace is, and that it’s at work in you. Desire to be a saint. When I was a child, the nuns taught us to aspire to sanctity. They meant moral perfection, and that...
The proof lay in service. The church’s body was healing when it found itself caring about and tending the bodies of others. It could claim health only when it was putting its own body on the line. Which is why examining the life we lead in our bodies has traditionally preceded ...
He told The Buffalo News daily newspaper March 20 that the statue had been at the back of the church, but he moved it to the front in mid-March because of the saint’s significance in this modern-day plague. “He’s there temporarily for people to pray in this tough time,” the pri...
A member of the U.S. Marines carries their national flag past a man wearing a stars and stripes shirt during a special service to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, at a church in New Plymouth, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. The US team will pla...
but is there a true spirit of service behind that help – a spirit that seeks out the actual needs of those being served as opposed to just imposing whatever is easiest for helpers and gives that quick “Look at the good I did!” moral boost? Often a pitfall for the church – has ...