For Parishes – Prayer of the Month

For Parishes – Prayer of the Month

by Jennie Murphy | Jan 31, 2023 | Prayer of the Month

February 2023 – Prayer of the Month Almighty and everlasting God, who through your Son, the cornerstone, has joined these people, coming from diverse places, and has joined this flock under one and the same shepherd, give to your servants, the indissoluble bond...
For Parishes – Monthly Reflection

For Parishes – Monthly Reflection

by Jennie Murphy | Jan 31, 2023 | Monthly Reflection

God used a Catholic parish to change my life. Which is strange because I wasn’t Catholic.  I was a Protestant university student looking for a place to pray.  Protestant churches were closed, but an old parish church a few blocks from campus was open,...
Prayer in the early days of the Church

Prayer in the early days of the Church

by Jennie Murphy | Jan 25, 2023 | Blog Articles

Tertullian, an ecclesiastical author of the late second century, writes in one of his first treatises on prayer that “only prayer conquers God” (De oratione 29, 2). It’s a provocative phrase! But already in the Old Testament, the book of Sirach tells...