Tonight, we are starting the St. Joseph Novena ... our request is that St. Joseph help us discern God's will ... whether to stay in Virginia or go back to Colorado, where to work, and other family intentions. Please pray this novena with us -- starting tonight -- and ending on the 9th day, March 19t...

As we begin the first day of this Novena to St. Joseph for Alcoholics, we pray: O chaste Spouse of Mary most holy, glorious Saint Joseph, great was the trouble and anguish of thy heart when thou wast minded to put away privately thine inviolate Spouse, yet thy joy was unspeakable, when the surpassin...

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...

March 19th is the Feast of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. In an effort to connect yet another Catholic devotion to recovery from alcoholism and addiction, I will be posting a novena to the saint for his intercession with God for us. It will start on March 11 and end on the 19th. For those r...

I thank You, Jesus, my Divine Redeemer, for coming upon the earth for our sake, and for instituting the adorable Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist in order to remain with us until the end of the world. I thank You for hiding beneath the Eucharistic species Your infinite majesty and beauty, which Your ...

St Francis Xavier Hymn of St Francis Xavier My God, I love thee, not because I hope for Heav'n thereby; Nor yet since they who love thee not, must burn eternally. Refrain E'en so I love thee, and will love, And in thy praise will sing; Solely because thou art my God and my eternal King. Solely becau...

The intention of this novena was to focus attention on the healing aspects of Catholicism through a devotion to Mary, the Mother of God. Mary as Our Lady of Lourdes was chosen as she is an obvious recourse for Catholic addicts and alcoholics. She is our primary intercessor with the Trinity, and like...

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...

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...

(This is my "Spiritual Food" entry for my parish's bulletin.) From the Thursday on which Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven until the Sunday of the Jewish festival of Pentecost, St. Luke records that the Apostles were gathered together in prayer with Mary and over a hundred other disciples. (cf. Acts...