Say once a day for nine days, especially beginning on 11 March and ending on 19 March, the Feast of St. Joseph O glorious descendant of the kings of Judah, Inheritor of the virtues of all the patriarchs. Just and happy St. Joseph, listen to my prayer. Thou art my glorious protector, and shall ever b...

"Glory is the fruit if grace: the grace possessed by Jesus in an infinite degree is reflected in an infinite glory transfiguring Him entirely. Something similar happens to us: grace will transform us "from glory to glory" (2 Cor 3, 18) until one day it will bring us to the Beatific Vi...

"Penance is the sacrament of Christ's Precious Blood in which God- according to the eloquent words of Saint Catherine of Siena- "has bathed us in order to cleanse the face of our souls from the leprosy of sin." If mortal sin is only the necessary matter of this sacrament, venial s...

"After 40 days of rigorous fast, while He is feeling the pangs of hunger, Jesus is tempted by Satan to change stones into bread. No one can undertake a serious program of penance or mortification without feeling its discomforts; but that is the time to resist the i...

After the Incarnation, the Cross of Jesus is the greatest proof of His love for man. Similarly, mortification, which is suffering eagerly accepted for the love of God, is one of the greatest proofs of love that we can give Him. It means freely giving up a satisfaction or a pleasure in order to impos...

Here are some ways to celebrate Lent with your children: Say Farewell to the Alleluia Dawn at By Sun and Candlelight has a wonderful post on celebrating Ash Wednesday. One of the crafts she made this year is saying farewell to the Alleluia. I really love her craft. It is so beautiful. Here is our at...

O glorious Mother of God, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly for the grace of a happy death. O Mother of our Divine Lord, as we conclude t...

    2nd. Sunday   The basic devotion is to meditate on each of the seven Sorrows and Joys of St. Joseph for the seven Sundays before his feast on March 19th.   Be sure to make a petition, especially if your family is needing work, dh is not Christian, children are struggling,...

O glorious Mother of God, so powerful under your special title of Our Lady of Lourdes, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the gracious Heart of Jesus all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare and for the specia...

Prayer to St. Blaise or Blase for protection, particularly from afflictions of the throat. O glorious St. Blaise, who by your martyrdom left to the Church a precious witness to the Faith, obtain for us the grace to preserve within ourselves this divine gift, and to defend — without concern for hum...