by Jennie Murphy | May 10, 2023 | Blog Articles
Church movements and groups are an essential part of the life of the Church. Let us dwell for a moment on the richness of these movements and groups. They number in the thousands around the world. There are movements of spiritual life attached to major religious...
by Jennie Murphy | Apr 19, 2023 | Blog Articles
When we read the Bible, we realize that the heart is much more than the a physical organ that allows a human being to live. The heart is the space where God speaks in prayer. It is an inner place from which feelings, memories, ideas and decisions spring. Those who...
by Philip Kosloski | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog Articles
If we are honest with ourselves, we know the difficulty in staying focused during prayer. It can seem like every time we kneel to pray our minds travel somewhere else. Even the saints struggled with distractions during their lifetime. Before St. Francis of Assisi...
by Jennie Murphy | Mar 8, 2023 | Blog Articles
Perhaps we don’t realize it, but whenever we pray, we renew the image of God within us. Even when we pray on the Click to Pray app or pray for the Pope’s prayer intentions, we shine forth with the image of God. The biblical passage that underlies this...
by Jennie Murphy | Feb 22, 2023 | Blog Articles
It is beautiful to reread the following two passages at the beginning of the book of Acts (Acts 2:42-47; Acts 4:32-35) to see how the early Church fostered community. Today, the parish wants to reawaken that early sense of fraternity. By proposing the intention for...
by Jennie Murphy | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog Articles
We have been created by Love and for love, in such a way that our life could be summed up as the path in which we learn how to learn to love and be loved. We are people “on the way,” learning how to be the people God has created us to be. During our life...
