HAPPY ALL SAINTS DAY!!
"Father, all powerful and ever-living God, today we rejoice in the holy men and women of every time and place.
May their prayers bring us your forgiveness and love.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever."

SCRIPTURE ( Read more... )

As I've said before, we Catholics don't choose the readings for Mass on a given day. They're all in the Lectionary on a three-year cycle, which was set down decades ago (I'm imagining somewhere around the 1960s, during Vatican II). That we would just happen to have the readings we did today, on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist ( Read more... )

"Your birth, O Virgin Mother of God, proclaims joy to the whole world, for from you arose the glorious Sun of Justice, Christ our God; he freed us from the age-old curse and filled us with holiness; he destroyed death and gave us eternal life ( Read more... )

For the Knights and Ladies of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcre, today's memorial of the queenship of Mary, goes by the slightly different name above. I write this entry today not only because I am a knight but because I have been there and seen the Christians struggling to survive in what we call the Holy Land. There is little Holy about ( Read more... )

Begin each day with the Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.

Day 3: Sunday, Seventh Week of Easter
Thou, of all consolers best,
Visiting the troubled breast,
Dost refreshing peace bestow.
Read: Acts 1:12-14; 1 Peter 4:13-16; John 17:1-11
The Gift of PietyThe gift of Piety begets in our hearts a child-like affection for God as our most loving ( Read more... )

At this moment, my thoughts turn with special affection to all of the consecrated men and women throughout the world and I entrust them to the Blessed Virgin Mary:

O, Mary, Mother of the Church,
I entrust all consecrated people to you,
that you may obtain for them the fullness of divine light:
may they live in listening to the Word of God,
in the ( Read more... )

Hey y'all! Jamie, a Missioners of Christ member, left for Japan on Friday; he is scheduled to be there for a month.  Please keep him and everyone he serves in your prayers ( Read more... )

After a crazy good day that took me from an awesome prayer experience atop a mountain overlooking the Shenandoah Valley at dawn to contemplating the parable of the sower and the seed while digging away in my veggie garden to shepherding a couple of crazy kids on an adventure around our little town at dusk, I thought this was the perfect prayer to ( Read more... )

"All-powerful God ( Read more... )