Just When I Needed You Most… I woke up at 4 am last Friday morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I decided to just have some extended prayer time. I ended up spending two hours listening to an audiobook entitled, “The Passion, as Dictated by Jesus to Catalina” (CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF). …
Prayer and reflection Exodus 90 is a 90-day period of intense reflection, nightly examination of conscience, prayer, fraternity, and aestheticism. It is really a ninety-day Lent, that seeks freedom from our sins, faults, and shortcomings and helps to begin anew with grace, good habits of prayer, Holy hours and frequenting the Sacraments. We benefit by …
“You are the light of the world” Think about it, we really do bring light to the darkness of downtown. We reflect HIS light and goodness. We are like the moon reflecting the light of the sun, or should I say the SON. Many would like us to go away. Many would like to do …
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Lent is a profoundly beautiful season, and therefore beckons the heart to do profoundly beautiful things for Our Lord and others. It is a season where Christ Crucified touches your soul and inspires you to give and not count the cost — to forgive the one who has hurt you deeply, to lay down your life …
BE a MIRROR, Not A FLASHLIGHT Probably like quite a few of you, I’ve spent a year or two in the pro-life movement and probably will continue until I am unable. Since I was a little girl, I was always shocked that anyone would even think of killing a tiny baby. My parents dutifully took …
Planting Seeds Sometimes when we stand praying on the Liberty Avenue sidewalk, we can think that we aren’t saving little lives, having an impact, or making a difference. We see passersby purposely stare straight ahead or look away as they pass the fetal models. They do not see the Truth. But, unless they have ear …
Run the race with perseverance heading into eternity. Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter …
Fill My Cup, Lord! (click to hear the song) This song by Andrew Ripp has been playing in my head since reading the story of Elisha and the Widow’s jar of Oil, (from 2Kings 4) this morning. The song, like the story, is about our emptiness without God, and about His provision for those who …
Jesus, truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament, hear our humble prayers, bless this work for your unborn babies, as we implore your Most Sacred Heart, save them Lord, heal their parents, bring conversion and true faith to those that would harm them. The power of the prayers we offer on the sidewalk saves lives, …
“Do whatever He tells you.” “Do whatever He tells you.” Those are the words of the Blessed Mother of Jesus to the waiters at the wedding feast of Cana. And then the first great miracle happened, water was turned into wine. The same happens downtown. He can change our presence, our prayers, our smiles and …
