How Memorizing Prayers Together Brought My Family Closer to God
Last fall, signs outside our parish and notices within our weekly bulletin reminded my family that the month of October in our Catholic faith is…
Last fall, signs outside our parish and notices within our weekly bulletin reminded my family that the month of October in our Catholic faith is…
One thing that makes the rosary one of my favorite devotions is that it is essentially a scriptural prayer. This is true in two ways:…
No, the Hail Mary is not a part of the Catholic Mass. That said, I have been to a few Masses where the priest inserts…
Actually, we owe the first half of it to the angel Gabriel and to Mary’s cousin Elizabeth. “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with…
My memory… it slips sometimes.  I wish I could blame it on my advancing age. After all, forty is right around the corner and I’d…
When I was ten, my favorite movie was Mary Poppins. As it begins, British siblings Jane and Michael Banks write an advertisement listing their requirements…
The rosary is not the most important Catholic prayer–that “honor” belongs to the Eucharist–but it has been a popular and widespread devotion among Catholics from…
As a cultural historian and author, Garry Wills has spent more than three decades researching and writing on historical figures like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln…
I’ve never found the rosary particularly helpful to my prayer. Truth be told, most of the time when I pray, I use my own words.…