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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...
Andy LaValle calls fasting the tool to change your outlook most effectively. For him, there was no quicker, more consistent practice to bring me closer to God than fasting combined with prayer. From the Hub to the Heart, via Medjugorje Although God’s presence is everywhere, Mass is my favorite place to come into his...
Some people go through an entire life not knowing their purpose or why God has given them the gifts he has. Up until June of 2010, I was a secure, self-employed businessman, married for 35 years, with two adult children as partners in our enterprise. My priorities were golf, business, family, and God in that...
Waltham, MA (August 15, 2015) – Live the Fast, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides nutritious breads and educational materials to encourage prayer and fasting, has announced that it will lead a prayer and fasting novena for Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to the USA next month. Fast4Francis is an opportunity for participants to embrace the...
Pope Francis: What do the angels of children tell God about us? – Pope: May the Lord judge our life by listening to what the angels of children bring to Him, those angels that always see the face of the Father in heaven. Featured Favorite: Resurrection and self-awareness – The joy of the resurrection gives...
Grandpa Francis – Pope Francis: “Grandparents form the permanent 'choir' of a great spiritual shrine.” CC4Moms package discount for JOYAlive.net subscribers – offer to subscribers to JOYAlive.net for conference discount and free "Sharing Your Faith" booklet Our Father and the 7 Last Words of Jesus, 4th Word – "My God, my God, why hast...
Genesis 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Peter 3:18-21; Mark 1:12-13 Do you have or have you seen your family photo albums or videos? We like to look back at past family picture events. Or for some of us when we were boys, did we collect baseball player cards from bubble gum packages? At Liturgies (Masses) the...
At the Catholic Men’s Conference in Boston in 2010, Andy LaVallee met Jim Caviezel, not knowing he portrayed Jesus in The Passion of Christ. Jim dared Andy to go with him to Medjugorje, an obscure, poor village in Croatia. For more than thirty years, it has been alleged that the Virgin Mary has been appearing...