Tuesday 1st September is the World day of prayer for the Care of Creation. Here are a few suggestions for you and your family to mark this important day. Attend mass. Start reading Laudato Si’. Share an inspirational paragraph of Laudato Si to a friend. Gather together with family to praise God for his […]
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A few months back I was staring at my ‘Divine Mercy Calendar’ which hangs on the back of the toilet door, like I do every day at some point or another, and I learnt something. Forgive me if I am way behind the curve here, but I just noticed that every month is dedicated
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We all have our crosses to bear in this life and some are more obvious than others. But, as much as it is hard to be happy about them, we should be thankful for our crosses because it is from carrying the cross of Christ that we receive many blessings. Below are some of
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Good Friday is a day where, like Ash Wednesday, we fast between meals and abstain from eating meat. This week is also an opportunity to fast from any activities that take our attention and focus away from Christ and the living out of our vocation. Over the course of Lent we have fasted from many activities
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Light the red candle this week. Offer this prayer for Holy Week: Mother or child: (From the words of Pope Pius XII On the Sacred Liturgy,) Dearly beloved, in Holy Week, when the most bitter sufferings of Jesus Christ are put before us by the liturgy, the Church invites us to come to Calvary
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Advent wreaths and calendars are a fairly common approach to preparing for Christmas, but during Lent it can be more difficult to keep our eyes focused on Easter when we have less visual reminders of the season that we are in. Here are two simple ideas to create a suitable visual reminder in your
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This kids iPhone prayer cue is an easy craft idea I used to use when I taught Kindergarten scripture in the state school in my parish. The assistant priest had spoken to the class on prayer and used the analogy that prayer is like making a call to God on our mobile phone. Mobile
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A post advent reflection. This past advent was our first in our own home. Previous years: 2011 – our first advent and Christmas was in France with my husband’s family, 2012 – our first with our baby daughter, staying at my parents’ then moving out, with our wedding and in-laws visiting, 2013 – moving
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Taken from book “Saint John Paul The Great: His Five Loves” ~ Jason Evert “From his childhood, his father instilled in Karol a strong devotion to the Holy Spirit. He recalled his father telling him, ‘You don’t pray to the Holy Spirit enough. You ought to pray to him.’ … [His father] taught him
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Taken from the book “Saint John Paul The Great: His Five Loves” ~ Jason Evert “Saint Maximilian Kolbe points out: ‘True knowledge of the Immaculata can only be acquired in prayer. The purer a soul is, the greater efforts it makes to avoid sin. . . the more and better will it get to
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