What Can Fasting Do For The Soul?

In All Things, Be A Man Of Prayer | St. Bonaventure

by St. Bonaventure | Sep 24, 2021 | Family, Meaning of Suffering, Prayer, Self-Knowledge

"If you would suffer with patience the adversities and miseries of this life, be a man of prayer. If you would obtain courage and strength to conquer the temptations of the enemy, be a man of prayer. If you would mortify your own will with all its inclinations and...

God Is The Brightest Of Lights | St. Hildegard

by St. Hildegard | Sep 16, 2021 | God & Mystery of Evil, Sacraments, Saint Quotes

"God is the brightest of lights which can never be extinguished, and the choirs of angels radiate light from the divinity. Angels are pure praise without any trace of a bodily deed."-St. Hildegard of Bingen

St. Peter Claver’s Secrets To Evangelization

by Guest Author | Sep 9, 2021 | Baptism, Confession, Evangelization, Leadership, Saint Quotes, Social Justice, Value of Human Life, World's View

Yesterday, May 30, 1627, on the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, numerous blacks, brought from the rivers of Africa, disembarked from a large ship. Carrying two baskets of oranges, lemons, sweet biscuits, and I know not what else, we hurried toward them. When we...

Mary, The Vessel, The Tabernacle

by St. Gregory the Great | Sep 3, 2021 | Mary - The Blessed Mother, Prayer

Mary, you are the vessel and tabernacle containing all Mysteries.St. Gregory The Great https://catholic-link.org/pray-rosary-visual-guide/

St. Augustine’s Bedtime Prayer

by Saint Augustine | Aug 25, 2021 | Faith & Life, Family, Prayer

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your...

The Solution To Every Problem According To Our Lady Of Fatima

by Guest Author | Aug 18, 2021 | Controversial Subjects, Family, Mary - The Blessed Mother, Prayer, Rosary, Saint Quotes

The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of...

St. John Paul II’s Prayer For Teenagers

by St. John Paul II | Aug 11, 2021 | Family, Saint John Paul II

Jesus, Son of God,in whom the fullness of the Divinity dwells,You call all the baptized to " put out into the deep",taking the path that leads to holiness.Waken in the hearts of young people the desireto be witnesses in the world of todayto the power of your love.Fill...

Litany To St Joseph For A Dying Person

by Traditional Catholic Prayers | Jul 21, 2021 | Faith & Life, Family, Mary - The Blessed Mother, Prayer

Lord have mercy on us. Christ have mercy on us. Lord have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us. God the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us. Holy Trinity,...

If God Can Hear Us, Why Do Catholics Pray To The Saints?

by St. Thomas More | Jul 15, 2021 | Prayer, Saint Quotes, Saints

You say you see no reason why we should pray to the Saints since God can hear us and help us just as well, and will do so gladly, as any Saint in Heaven. Well, then, what need, I ask, do you have to ask any physician to help your fever, or to ask and pay any surgeon...

Prayer of St. Benedict

by St. Benedict | Jul 7, 2021 | Prayer, Saint Quotes

Gracious and Holy Father, give us the wisdom to discover You, the intelligence to understand You, the diligence to seek after You, the patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, a heart to meditate upon You, and a life to proclaim You, through the power of the...

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