There are a multitude of resources for daily prayer on the market today. Ave Maria Press and the Apostleship of Prayer have presented readers with another option. Sacred Reading: The 2016 Guide to Daily Prayer is based upon the ancient practice of lectio divina. It is a useful tool that will help you understand scripture more deeply in the coming year. Each day the reader is presented with the daily Gospel reading. Built around that Gospel reading is a six-step... Read more
Mary, Temple of God St. Francis of Assisi, with characteristic exuberance, sings a joyful hymn to the Virgin Mary that celebrates many of her traditional titles. Holy Virgin Mary, there is none like you among all the women born into the world! Daughter and handmaid of the heavenly Father, the almighty King, mother of our most high Lord Jesus Christ, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, pray for us to your most holy Son, our Lord and Master. Hail, holy Lady, most... Read more
This week Liguori Publications is sponsoring the giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of Little Lamb Finds Christmas by Cathy Gilmore, illustrated by Kim Wilson(you can read my review here). I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Enter below. The contest starts at midnight tonight EST and will end 12 AM EST 12/097 with a winner being announced later that day. a Rafflecopter giveaway Read more
Gain for us the grace to turn to your Son St. Bernard’s prayer beautifully expresses the intimate connection between devotion to Mary and devotion to Jesus, and the meaning of the celebrated motto: “To Jesus through Mary.” Blessed Lady, you found grace; you brought forth Life; you became the mother of salvation. Gain for us the grace to turn to your Son through you. Through you, let us be received by the One who through you gave himself to us.... Read more
Cathy Gilmore is married mom of three, living in St. Louis, MO. As an award winning author and speaker, I help adults and children cultivate spiritual imagination. Little Lamb Finds Christmas is actually my second published title, both by Liguori Publications. It is the holiday parable in which readers experience the LOVE of the Good Shepherd, the MIRACLE of the Peaceable Kingdom and the JOY of Christmas all snuggled together in one captivatingly illustrated book. PETE: How did you develop the story... Read more
To you, Mary, I entrust my life St. Aloysius Gonzaga died quite young from caring for plague victims, but when his final hour came, he had long before entrusted both his life and his death to Mary. O holy Mary, my mistress, into your blessed trust and special blessing, into the bosom of your tender mercy, this day, every day of my life, and at the hour of my death, I commend my soul and body. To you I entrust... Read more
The Advent season is the time of year when children pull out their favorite Christmas books in anticipation of the arrival of Christmas Day. When it comes to those books some of them are ones they return to year after year. Cathy Gilmore has written one such book that I believe will become one of those titles. Little Lamb Finds Christmas is good enough to be a classic. Cathy writes about the Lemi the lamb who has become separated from... Read more
Mary’s sincere devotees will never perish St. Alphonsus insists that those whose devotion to Mary is genuine have a firm hope of salvation. It is impossible for someone who turns to Mary, who is faithful in hon- oring and entrusting himself to her, to be lost. To some this proposition may appear, at first sight, exaggerated. But anyone to whom this might seem to be the case, I would beg to suspend his judgment, and, first of all, read what... Read more
A prayer to Mary of thanksgiving and hope St. Alphonsus is always careful to include praise and thanksgiving along with his petitions to Our Lady. O my soul, see what a sure hope of salvation and eternal life our Lord has given you, by having in his mercy inspired you with confidence in the patron- age of his mother! And he has done this despite the many times when, by your sins, you have merited his displeasure and hell. Thank... Read more
Mary, olive branch of forgiveness St. Gertrude the Great was a visionary whose passionate devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus gave her a deep love for his mother. Here, she humbly asks for Mary’s tender motherly care. Hail, Mary, Queen of Mercy, olive branch of forgiveness, through whom we receive the medicine that heals our mortal sickness, the balsam of pardon; Virgin mother of the divine Offspring, through whom the grace of heavenly light has been shed upon us,... Read more
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