The joy of conversion, Christian community, and the Catholic faith
Mother Knows Best Day 8: Wednesday—First Week of Lent (On February 27, in Introducing Give Up Worry Wednesdays we announced our Lenten series, which takes a weekly reflection from a transforming new book by Gary Zimak, Give Up Worry for Lent: 40 Days to Finding Peace in Christ .) When the wine failed, the mother of...
Deuteronomy 26:4-10; Psalm 91:1-2, 10-15; Romans 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13 Dear God, fill us with deeper faith and more understanding to know Jesus more fully and commit ourselves to live by his power and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Please keep praying Chaplets of Divine Mercy for our country and the world. We are...
For our Lenten series, we have chosen a transforming new book by Gary Zimak, Give Up Worry for Lent: 40 Days to Finding Peace in Christ. No one is more experienced and thus more expert in overcoming worrying than Gary Zimak, who describes himself as a recovering worrier. From my interview with him, I’ve discovered...
Anima Christi: Passion of Christ, strengthen me The fourth of seven meditations on the Anima Christi from Unconditionally, Finding Jesus in the Eucharist by Greg Wasinski The journey involved in the Passion gives us the ability to connect ourselves with the strength it took for Jesus to get from the Last Supper to the cross....
Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Psalm 25:4-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 This is one of St. Francis of Assisi’s prayers. Most high and glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our minds. Instill in us a correct faith, a certain hope, a perfect love and a profound humility, O Lord, with wisdom and understanding to...
Genesis 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mt 4:4b; Mark 1:12-15 These forty days of penance, fasting, prayer and almsgiving go back to the forty days Jesus spent in the desert tempted by the devil. This was after St. John the Baptist baptized him in the River Jordan, as Mark gives us the shortest account...
