Can you imagine the sound of blood pumping through a heart? Can you hear it in your mind? Try to imagine. Perhaps you’re a doctor and you listen to heartbeats daily through a stethescope – can you hear the whoosh of the blood going through the heart playing in your mind? It’s important to try,
Each day we have the opportunity to enter more deeply into the minds of the greatest and holiest men and women of our Church that ever lived throughout the centuries of the Church’s existence. We can do this by praying the official prayers of the Church, called the Divine Office or oftentimes the Breviary. Each day,
St. Padre Pio and Medjugorje Padre Pio, a Franciscan priest who bore the wounds of Christ for 50 years and who died in 1968, is said to have a connection to the Apparitions of Our Lady in Medjugorje. How can this be said since Padre Pio died 13 years before the reported apparitions even began
“I am all yours, and all that I have is yours, O most loving Jesus, through Mary, your most holy Mother” (True Devotion, 233). DAY 6 of 33: Contemplating the Hail Mary. Action: Pray one decade of the Rosary contemplating the 5th Joyful Mystery – The Finding of Jesus in the Temple. Providentially it is
Today is the release of the Ignatius Press book: Mary of Nazareth: The Life of Our Lady in Pictures. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, it is the most beautiful depiction of Mary that I’ve ever seen. I’m sure the book will be just as beautiful. “This picture/meditation book is truly a beautiful companion
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!
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