The divisiveness in our culture is contaminating families. Exorcists point to the devil as dividing and oppressing us. I am shocked at some of what I am seeing in families. There’s always been evil forces at work since Adam and Eve, but the anti-Christian spirit certainly gained a foothold through the notorious Madalyn Murray O’Hair who forced…
Sometimes I yearn for a voice from above to shout: “Catholics, use your weapons!” To do nothing about all hell breaking loose is to join the other side.
I learned to pray the rosary in 1989 while in my early thirties. I vowed to say it daily. But a few weeks after the birth of a new baby, I decided to skip it in favor of getting to sleep. That’s when a Divine message let me know, it’s worth staying…
When Veronica Hargrove’s son was fighting overseas in Kuwait, praying the rosary for him took away her feeling of fear and helplessness. And the Blessed Mother came through. As a little girl, I often noticed my father fingering a string of pretty beads. I would wonder why he played with those beads so…
“Hey Patti, I’m getting serious about praying for my family. I’m going to do a 40-day fast and daily rosary, do you want to join me?” My friend Shellie Rusch asked me this recently. She has six kids and we have a spiritual sisterhood in many ways. As a wife and mother of ten, I…
The day before ND’s historical victory for life, our little prayer group ventured into an emotional pro-abortion rally. “Let’s get together today at 2:00 PM to pray and balance the offensive that will occur at 2:30 at the capitol.” my friend Isabel texted me. I decided that praying for the unborn…
More than a century ago a proud university student boarded a train in France and sat next to an older man who seemed to be a peasant of comfortable means. The brash student noticed that the older gentleman was slipping beads through his fingers. He was praying the rosary. …
“You Catholics have that Mary thing,” a non-Catholic recently commented to a friend of mine. Yes, we sure do and it’s one of the best things going. Our Blessed Mother has real pull with our Savior–something we can all use. A good word put in by her proved quite effective at the wedding at Cana…