Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. –St. Padre Pio
For a Catholic convert, many challenges and obstacles inevitably arise. Some are predictable, like the protestant pastor who must lay down his calling, or the life-long Christian who is now out-of-step with family and friends. Others suddenly appear just when the road to Rome seems clear. For me, RCIA was one of those obstacles.
I’ve recently picked up the guitar again, so I’ve been working on a few easy songs to add to our family prayer and praise time. These are pretty old and probably familiar to most. Easy for kids to sing and Mom to play! I’ve compiled them into a playlist to share. Check ’em out!
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading Deut 4:1-2, 6-8 Moses exhorteth the people to keep God’s commandments: particularly to fly idolatry. Appointeth three cities…
The soul hungers for God, and nothing but God can satiate it. Therefore He came to dwell on earth and assumed a Body in order…
A child is God’s greatest gift to the family, to the nation, to the world. The child is a life from God, created in the…
One of the complications of having a large family is where to sleep everyone? Room-sharing, for most of the kids, is mandatory. But as oldest children reach their teens, it starts becoming less workable to have a preschooler in their room…and their stuff.
CHAPTER XXIV. All Evil Inclinations must be purged away. FURTHERMORE, my daughter, we have certain natural inclinations, which are not strictly speaking either mortal or…
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with…
The sons of God and the daughters of men, the effect is death. It could read just as well for my purpose the daughters of…
