by Jennie Murphy | Jun 11, 2025 | Blog Articles
Life is full of challenges, but hope gives us the strength to overcome them. It is not mere optimism, but confidence that God is with us in the midst of difficulties. Hope does not deny pain; it recognizes it, but helps us to integrate it as part of our experience,...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 6, 2025 | Blog Articles
As we celebrate the Month of the Sacred Heart, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archdiocese of New York, has offered a simple, powerful reminder: begin each day with the Morning Offering. In his message, Cardinal Dolan encouraged the faithful to renew their devotion to the...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 5, 2025 | Blog Articles
This is how our hearts are moved when we are truly devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We begin with an awareness of our own hearts. God the Father created our hearts and shaped our hearts from the first moments we were formed in our mothers’ wombs. My heart! My...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 5, 2025 | Blog Articles
Lord, I come to Your tender Heart today, to You who have words that set my heart ablaze, who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor, those who suffer, and on all human miseries. I desire to know You more, to contemplate You in the Gospel, to be with You...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 5, 2025 | Blog Articles
Pope Leo XIV invites us to deepen our personal relationship with Jesus and to learn from his Heart how to have compassion on the world. Let us listen to his words in The Pope Video produced by the his Worldwide Prayer Network. And let us ask Christ to transform us and...
by Jennie Murphy | May 23, 2025 | Blog Articles
Sometimes praying can be an arduous task, and indeed it frequently is! However, those who have gone before us have left us some aids that have helped them along the way and that could also help us in our prayer. St. Ignatius of Loyola teaches us that to pray is to...
