It has been crushing to read the horrific reports of Cardinal McCarrick’s predatory abuse, the grand jury report of the 1000 abused in Pennsylvania over the last 70 years, and now, to read the Testimony of Cardinal Vigano, in which he names people very high up in the Church, including Pope Francis, as complicit in allowing Cardinal McCarrick’s predatory
Readings and Prayers for St. Louis-Marie de Montfort’s Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary SECOND WEEK THEME FOR THE WEEK: KNOWLEDGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN Acts of love, pious affection for the Blessed Virgin, imitation of her virtues, especially her profound humility, her lively faith, her blind obedience, her continual mental prayer, her mortification in all
Help for fasting on this Wednesday of the 1st Week of Lent: “Prayer is greatly aided by fasting and watching and every kind of bodily chastisement. In this regard each of you must do what you can. Thus, the weaker will not hold back the stronger, and the stronger will not press the weaker. You
I wanted to share with you one of the most beautiful gifts of my life — one of my dearest devotions. It is the Rosary – it is a simple prayer of Our Fathers and Hail Marys and Glory Bes that we pray as we think about the life of Jesus. Intermixed and despite times of
As we read yesterday, as the young Maximilian saw the Freemasons celebrating their 200th Anniversary by parading throughout Rome, he understood “the destructive effects of atheistic secularism” that it represented. He saw, already in 1917, “the spreading of dangerous religious indifferentism and various antireligious theories, as well as of the subtle decline of morality. He
Besides coordinating Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration for my parish, I am an active and sought after retreat leader, teacher and speaker in the Diocese of Wichita, as well as a writer, artist and pilgrim.
I love to spend time with family and friends, as well as go to daily Mass, adore and pray, learn, travel, write and create beautiful things!
I write at Entering into the Mystery, Catholic 365 and Catholic Mom — seeking to inspire through sharing Goodness, Truth and Beauty manifested in the Love, Mercy, Power and Glory of God and Our Blessed Mother.
If you are interested in scheduling me to speak or lead a retreat, please email me at invitemiraclerosary@gmail.com.