It can often be difficult to find time to pray each day. Work, family and other obligations take most of our attention...
The Pope Francis challenge: Consult the Bible as often as your cellphone
This past Sunday Pope Francis challenged Catholics (again) to keep a pocket-Bible and return again and again to it throughout the day. He reflected, “What would happen if we turned back when we forget it, if we opened it more times a day, if we read the message of God contained in the Bible the way we read messages on our cellphones?”
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network remains intimately linked to the Heart of Jesus
One of the central aspects of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network is a spirituality centered on the Heart of Jesus. It is from this Heart that we receive a mission and are “sent out to the margins of human life in different ways…We are sent to the places where men and women are suffering injustice, to help heal and support the brokenhearted.”
Yes! You can become a saint too!
While we often focus on praying to the saints in Heaven on All Saints Day, it is also a day in the liturgical calendar that allows us the chance to reflect on God’s “universal call to holiness.” What this means is that everyone, no matter what profession or state in life, can become a saint!
That is good news!
What is Click To Pray?
After one year since the initial launch of Click to Pray, thousands of users around the world continue to use the innovative app to engage in the spirituality of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. It is a great tool to deepen a person’s spiritual life and one of the many methods of entering into the Way of the Heart.
But what is Click to Pray?
Our witness to the Gospel is more powerful than any words
This month Pope Francis sheds light on those Christian who have strayed away from the faith and explains a primary way these Christians will return to the faith. His intention prays, “that our brothers and sisters who have strayed from the faith, through our prayer and witness to the Gospel, may rediscover the merciful closeness of the Lord and the beauty of the Christian life.”
5 Daily Offering prayers from 5 different saints
We draw closer to the world’s suffering as we are united with Jesus. A central part of how we accomplish this in the...
The best way to teach your children how to pray
Today is the feast day of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, parents of “the little flower” Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. They provide for us a perfect example of the best way to teach your children how to pray.
5 Practical ways to implement the “Way of the Heart”
After meditating on the nine steps of the "Way of the Heart" spirituality, the next step is to implement it into our...
Pope Francis explains how the works of mercy reveal the “heart of Christ” in new exhortation
On this past Monday, April 9, 2018, Pope Francis issues his third apostolic exhortation titled, “Gaudete et Exsultate:...
We are apostles sent from the heart of the Father to the heart of the world
All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with...
Here is the mission Jesus gives each one of us
“He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted.” (Isaiah 61:1) The eighth step of the...