In a recent homily, our parish priest discussed the staggering fact that 80 percent of baptized young people are leaving the Faith before they are 25 years old.
Tag: love
Don’t Shy from Adoration Because You Get Distracted in Prayer – Take Your Cares to Your Lord!
Some of us, maybe, are deterred from visiting our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament by a false conception of what a visit should be. We suppose that the occupations which fill our heads and our hands from morning till night must all be laid aside at the church door and sternly forbidden entrance, much in the same way as we bid our dog lie down in the porch and wait for us.
When Jesus Speaks from the Tabernacle
There will be no more visitors for Me today, none through the long hours of the night. Stay with Me because it is towards evening.
What Can We Promise in Response to Our Lord?
“Can you come after Me by taking up your cross daily— the cross I have laid upon you to liken you to Myself?”
11 Inspirational Quotes about Sacrifice
We are called to give everything, without holding back. Sometimes it’s hard to comprehend the lengths to which we are asked to extend ourselves. Perhaps the quotes below will help to inspire you to desire the love that He desires for you; if not, perhaps at the very least they will provoke a deeper reflection of your Christian vocation.
Lord, Teach me to Praise You
Do this for me, O dearest Lord. Praise does not come easily to these lips of mine. The cares of life, and its failures, and its pains; heaviness of soul, and the weight of the corruptible body, with all the engrossingness of self, wring my heart dry of praise.
Before the Most Holy – A Lenten Meditation Series
As you make preparations for Lent, perhaps you plan to carve out some time for Eucharistic Adoration. If so, we invite you to join us in reading a wonderful book by Mother Mary Loyola.
Five Ways to Model Your Family after the Holy Family
The Holy Family is the ideal to which all other families should subscribe, if they hope to find joy and fulfillment in this life.
What Can I Give Him – Poor as I Am?
Lord, take my energies, fears and delights
Swaddled as gifts for this holiest night
Find in me merit to offer as well
May all my actions of You always tell
Charity: Divine Love Poured Out
Divine Revelation has shown us that God is a free and total outpouring and exchange of charity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. What is more is that He has destined us to share in this great and mysterious exchange of divine love!
