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Using Vocal Prayer in Your Spiritual Life

April 26, 2023

Vocal prayer is prayer in word or action. Since man is composed of soul and body, he must not only use his mind in prayer, but also his body and its senses for the glory of God. You express your interior sentiments and reverence for

Meteorologist’s prayer on live TV evokes an “overwhelmingly positive” response

April 24, 2023

It was Friday, March 24, at nearly 11PM. WTVA’s chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan was broadcasting a live weather forecast. Suddenly, as he was updating the radar map images, he saw to his horror that a tornado was hurtling dangerously towards the town of Amory in the

Texas Priest Hears 65 Hours of Confessions During Holy Week – Watch His Testimony!

April 21, 2023

Fr. David Michael Moses of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston recently experienced what he described as “one of the craziest weeks” of his priestly ministry. He spent about 65 hours in the confessional and attended to more than a thousand people during Holy Week. Check out his inspiring

10 Bible Verses to Conquer Spiritual Discouragement

April 20, 2023

Our interior state can be compared to the weather that is constantly changing. One day, you awake and there is sunshine streaming through your window pane; the birds are singing joyful songs of praise; the blue sky and gentle breeze lift your heart. Still more:

From Poland to Fatima on foot with no money

April 19, 2023

221 days, 3,500 miles, 10 countries, carrying a rosary in hand – that’s quite a pilgrimage to make on foot. Jakub Karlowicz, a 23-year-old man from northeastern Poland and a barber by profession, reached the shrine in Fatima on February 24. He offered his pilgrimage

Hope: A Virtue for Our Time

April 18, 2023

Faith, hope, and charity are the three theological virtues — the three virtues that direct us immediately and rightly to God Himself. We all know these three greatest virtues by heart, but it is likely that few of us have spent as much time focusing

3 Promises of the Divine Mercy Chaplet

April 15, 2023

St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun during the 1930s, received several private revelations from Jesus. She wrote down these visions in her Diary, which later became the foundation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, as well as Divine Mercy Sunday. She recorded in her Diary several promises that Jesus made

Fulton Sheen: The Cross Leads to Victory

April 11, 2023

The time is sunset — that dread day when at high noon the sun hid its light at the passing of Light. The holy body that was purpled with blood from the precious wardrobe of His side, was now at death, laid in a stranger’s

Why is Today Called Spy Wednesday?

April 5, 2023

You might hear today referred to as “Spy Wednesday.” What does that mean and why do some people call it that? The name actually derives from the Gospel reading for today — also called Holy Wednesday, as it is the Wednesday of Holy Week —

Accompany Mary Throughout Your Holy Week Pilgrimage

April 4, 2023

Are You Ready for Your Pilgrimage? Although the Blessed Virgin was carried away fainting after the sad meeting with her Son loaded with His Cross, yet she soon recovered consciousness, for love, and the ardent desire of seeing Him once more, imparted to her a supernatural