As a new year begins in January, you can reset your focus and seek God’s direction for the months ahead. Instead of just making your own New Year’s resolutions, you can ask God to show you his plans ...

There are many people facing situations that require a miracle, and maybe you are one of them. In these situations, it is not uncommon to wonder how to pray for a miracle. Is there something extra God ...

The church is called to pray. As disciples, we are called to have a personal life of prayer. As the body of believers – the church – we are called together to have a communal life of prayer. The two ...

What Is the Divine Mercy Chaplet? The Divine Mercy Chaplet is a Catholic devotion that implores the Father’s mercy by invoking the merits Jesus has won for us through his redemptive Sacrifice of ...

Do you ever feel your prayers are hitting the ceiling and bouncing back down unheard? Or were weak words scattered on the wind to arrive in an unintelligible, jumbled mess? Perhaps the prayer queue to ...

Fully embracing his humanity, Jesus was taught how to pray by his parents as well as through the prayers he heard in the synagogue and Temple. While Jesus is fully divine, he is also fully human, and ...

Prayers for the faithful departed are not just for All Souls’ Day or the month of November. The Sacred Scriptures (2 Maccabees 12:45) and the Church (CCC 958) remind Catholics of the importance of ...

Leaders from Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa offer guidance on interceding for believers suffering for their faith. Each November, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) calls for an ...

In the Roman Rite, immediately before the Eucharistic Prayer begins, the entire Church prays the "Sanctus" or "Holy, Holy, Holy." One of the primary signals in the Mass in the Roman Rite that the ...

An Italian priest named Father Charles Vachetta is credited with writing a novena in 1721 to inspire his parishioners during Advent. Today, that novena is known as the “Christmas novena.” The nine-day ...