Category: From the Book

Luca Giordano's the Holy Family with Sts. Anne and Joachim

Pray This Prayer for Your Grandparents!

From the Book

If you’ve ever shopped for gifts for grandparents, you’ve undoubtedly seen the kitschy phrase “The Best Parents Get Promoted to Grandparents” or “The Best Dads Get Promoted to Grandpa” or something similar. No doubt, Sts. Joachim and Anne were special. From the beginning of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s life, they took special care to protect Mary and to raise her to love God. They brought her to the Temple to be blessed and consecrated. It appears they did everything right as parents.Continue reading

St. John Vianney stained glass window

A Prayer for YOUR Parish Priest!

Family Life, From the Book, Living the Faith

Did you know that the heart of St. John Vianney is incorrupt? That’s right. The heart of the patron saint of parish priests, who lived centuries ago, has not decomposed. This is the heart that belonged to a little boy who admired the bravery of priests and nuns in the midst of the French Reign of Terror; Catholics, especially clergy, faced extreme persecution and death during the French Revolution and had to practice their Faith in secret...Continue reading

A Franciscan saint prays before an image of Mary and the Baby Jesus, who is touching the man's face

Worried for a Wayward Loved One? Here’s a Prayer for a Lost Soul

From the Book, Uncategorized

St. Anthony of Padua is one of the greatest and most recognizable saints in the Church. Unfortunately, he tends to get pigeonholed as “the patron saint of lost objects,” the one who finds your stuff when you think you’ve looked everywhere. You’ve heard the jingle: “Good Saint Anthony, come around. Something’s lost and can’t be found.” That’s fine, but there’s so much more to this great saint.Continue reading

Dave and Debbie Cowden with a photo of Mother Angelica

Mother Angelica’s Wisdom for Tired Parents

From the Book

March 27 marks the anniversary of Mother Angelica's death, and we're quickly approaching April 20, which would have been her 100th birthday on earth. Mother Angelica has been a spiritual mother to Dave and me for a long time, even more so when I began working for EWTN. She had the gift of being able to say exactly what I needed to hear. It was as if the message she was delivering in her books and TV shows was for me alone.Continue reading

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