The Angelus has been traditionally said three times daily, at 6 am, noon and 6 pm, but you can pray it at anytime! The Angelus reminds us of the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary with great news. As we read in Chapter One of Luke’s Gospel, (Luke 1:26-38) God wished Mary, […]
A Mother’s Prayer Verse: My sweet baby on loan from above no better treasure could I more love I stand here beside your bed as I pray I lay my hand on your head and I say: Chorus: May you grow up to serve Him all of your days May He lead you and guide
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This flying novena to the Infant of Prague is great for urgent intentions for which you don’t have nine days to spare – you just say it once an hour for nine consecutive hours. Set reminder alarms on your phone and get the kids to stop and pray with you! Novena prayer O
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I was recently at a talk by Fr John Corrigan, who spoke about making a spiritual communion daily. He said St Thomas Aquinas even taught that it was almost as good as receiving the Eucharist sacramentally! So if daily mass isn’t do-able, we can still make a spiritual communion daily and gain the immense
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This is YCM original Prayer for the conversion of a loved one. This can be done for any period of time, prayed daily or as a 9 day or 9 month novena. We recommend following it with the Divine Mercy Chaplet! Dear Lord, we beg you, have Mercy on ………………. Please fill her with Your
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Things change as your kids get older. When we first started praying the Stations of the Cross as a family during Lent, I printed off these prayers and reflections and off we went. Now my eldest can read fluently and wants to read them. So this year I collated them into an A6 size
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If you know me you have heard me mention how much I enjoy Lent, not because I particularly enjoy sacrifice! (No that bit is hard) but I do enjoy how it just seems to come about at just the right time. We have been on a high feasting and celebrating over Christmas and New year,
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In our family this year we decided as part of our Lenten promises we would adopt a better prayer life. This would include set prayers, said every day at about the same time each day. So to help make these new habits as easy to adopt as possible. We made little mini prayer books
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Master 9 and I were talking about Saint Anthony of Padua this week. It was his feast day and I’d taken the kids to a weekday Mass that evening. Master 9 asked how long it was after we asked Saint Anthony for help that he answered. It was, and remains, a good question. And
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If there’s one question that I get asked a lot it’s this: how do you find the time to blog? Yes, I daresay that I seem fairly prolific, and so I could answer that I’m just good at time management. But that would not be true. I’m a busy mum of five and blogging
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