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Finding it hard to perceive the Lord in your daily life? A prayer journal is an excellent way to help you open your heart to God and begin a dialog with Him.

The early seventeenth century was English poetry's golden age for the poetry of meditation, a more specialised and concentrated process than contemplation. Meditation seeks unity with the Godhead, and it is this particular genre which has given us some of the greatest poems in the language.

“Pray as you can, until you can pray as you should.” One of the most valuable books ever written for Catholic laypeople belongs to the so-called Docto...

“If anyone strives to be delivered from his troubles out of love of God, he will strive patiently, gently, humbly and calmly, looking for deliverance rather to God’s goodness and providence than to his own industry or efforts; but if self-love is the prevailing object, he will grow hot and eager in seeking relief, as though all depended more upon himself than upon God.”

On Jan. 24, the Church celebrates the patron saint of journalists, writers, and the Catholic press: St. Francis de Sales, doctor of the Church.

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Known as the “Gentleman Saint” by his spirit of optimism, hope, freedom and confidence in God’s everlasting love, St. Francis de Sales was Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Universal Church.  Francis was born to a noble family at Chateau de Sales near Geneva, Switzerland on August 21, 1567. As a member of a […]

St. Francis de Sales, pray for us!

St. Francis de Sales is also the patron saint of the Catholic press, journalists, and writers.