Now that the Olympics are over, the athletes have a little more time to reveal some of the resources that helped push them through their events. Marathon-runner Molly Seidel leaned on a prayer to St. Jude to help get over the finishing line. Speaking with Today, Seidel explained that in those last few miles she Read More…

Facebook is working on a new function that would allow users to request prayers. The social media platform has confirmed the upcoming release of Prayer Posts. The new feature is a result of Facebook taking notice of how their site was used to organize faith communities during the pandemic.  According to NBC News, users will Read More…

Perhaps at times we would prefer a God who doesn’t meddle in our lives with his will, and allows us to manage things according to how we think is best, suggested Pope Francis before praying the midday Angelus on August 8. The Holy Father proposed that as the people of the Gospel are scandalized by Read More…

There are a lot of favorite acronyms to guide daily prayer. After using one for decades, I have recently switched to the ABCs of prayer: It keeps my mind focused and better expresses how a real relationship with God should look. Here is how it works. A is for Adoration. Begin by adoring Christ. As Read More…

Lord Jesus,you were born of the Virgin Mary,the daughter of Saints Joachim and Anne.Look with love on grandparents the world over.Protect them! They are a source of enrichmentfor families, for the Church and for all of society.Support them!  As they grow older,may they continue to be for their familiesstrong pillars of Gospel faith,guardians of noble Read More…

The Diocese of Borongan, Philippines, held July 20 a Diocesan Day of Prayer and Fasting for deliverance from the Covid pandemic. Priest of the diocese held a “penitential walk” from the Borongan Cathedral to the Rosary Garden of Our Lady of Borongan in the city’s Sabang district. They processed with a large crucifix and candles. Read More…

“Who then can be saved?”  Over the past months, we have been forced to confront the reality of our mortality. We have all looked into countless masked faces that reflect back our own anxiety. We suffered a loss of comfort and a personal sense of invincibility. We proceeded to fill the void with the consumption Read More…

In his insightful book Thirsting for Prayer, Jacques Philippe notes that prayer can help us to replenish even physical energy. God, he says, is “the only source of inexhaustible energy.” Philippe offers two passages from Scripture that explain this phenomenon: 2 Corinthians 4:16 By prayer, “though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature Read More…

If you polled your social media followers, I bet you’d find “strained relationships” to be one of the big fallouts of the coronavirus pandemic. As if the 2020 election season in the U.S. weren’t enough to draw battle lines, the Age of COVID has further created tension and division among even the closest friends and Read More…

Hallow, the Catholic prayer and meditation app, launched on July 12 a 30-day Gospel challenge with Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus in The Chosen. Hallow’s Gospel challenge will guide listeners through all four Gospels in just 30 days. Each day, Roumie narrates a few chapters of the Gospels for users to reflect on Read More…

Praying without letting your mind wander is always difficult — especially when a prayer’s words come automatically, as they do with the Lord’s Prayer. Fulton Sheen used to illustrate the point by telling the story of St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s encounter with a farmer who claimed he wasn’t distracted in prayer. “I’ll give you my Read More…

Making time to pray seems to be the perennial challenge of the modern Christian. It helps enormously to have a dedicated space for prayer in your home, even if the space is a very small one.  One book, The Little Oratory, lays out a thorough explanation of why and how to set up such a Read More…