Jesus, I want what You want

It’s yet another new season of motherhood for me!

My eldest daughter Emily just got married a few days ago! My next daughter Kelly gets married next summer!  My eldest son, Joseph is a brand-new engineering grad, my youngest daughter Bridget has just started University and the youngest of my five kids, Adam, just started high school!

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St. Benedict, Teach Us to Pray

St. Benedict (480-547) rejected wealth and worldliness and became a hermit. He then founded 12 monasteries and wrote The Rule of St. Benedict requiring prayer, spiritual reading, manual labor, obedience and the development of hospitality, medical, educational and agricultural skills. St. Benedict taught about Prayer in The Rule. He recommended specific times throughout the day and night for study and prayer, often as a community: reading, teaching, memorizing and singing passages of Scripture. Other times of private, personal prayer were certainly also recommended for a deep and intimate prayer life and relationship with God.

St. Benedict recommended a balanced lifestyle of work and prayer, and living simply. He insisted that we should pray as we begin to work and as we work, with humility and reverence.

From various writings of St. Benedict on prayer, I think the most unique and specific approach to prayer was his recommended practice of prayer and work simultaneously. St. Benedict steered away from compartmentalizing these two fundamental aspects and practices so that one did not interrupt the other, and by consistently praying during work, study, rest, and while serving others, one could truly pray unceasingly.

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St Augustine, Teach Us to Pray

St. Augustine (354AD-430AD) was the son of St. Monica.
He spent many years living an immoral life, and renouncing Christianity. By the prayers of his mother and through the influence of St. Ambrose, he converted and became a theologian, philosopher, and the Bishop of Hippo, Roman North Africa.

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Desert Fathers, Teach Us to Pray!

The Tradition of reciting The Jesus Prayer is referenced as early as 270 AD, in monastic communities, and was first introduced and practiced by the Desert Fathers.

The Jesus Prayer:

“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me”

This simple prayer combines adoration of the Glory of God with humble recognition of our sin.

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Introducing our NEW Saints’ Master Class on Prayer

This has been a labor of love for the last four years! We have just launched the Saints’ Master Class on Prayer!

This is a Study of the Key Writings on Prayer of  >so far<  34 Saints and Theologians.

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Catholic Crafts for JULY Saints Days

We’ve put together a quick summary of Catholic Crafts for July Saints and the Monthly Devotion of The Precious Blood of Jesus.

A video about the #1 Most Impressive Eucharistic Miracle by Fr. Mark Goring

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We WON The Catholic Best Prayer Book Vote

We are so excited to announce that we WON the Catholic Best Prayer Book 2024!

It is such an honor to be mentioned in the same list as Fr. Jacques Philippe, Brother Lawrence, and Fr. Alphonsus Liguori!

a HUGE THANK YOU to all those of you who took the time to vote for Prompt Me to Pray!
We are so encouraged by this WIN and it’s prompting us to continue with new Catholic products hopefully launching later this summer! Thank you!

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Last Minute LENT Print-and-Pray Craft Kits

Have you thought of what you’d like to do for Lent this year?

Giving up something, adding a prayerful devotion, donating money or time for the needs of the poor?

Here are a couple links to print-and-pray craft kits that are EASY to adopt for a prayerFULL LENT, even if it’s totally LAST MINUTE!

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Launch: {Project: Prompt Me to Pray} New Craft Kit

Here is the proper launch for my NEWEST Craft Kit PDF!

I’m just trying to make it EASIER for all of us to pray unceasingly, from the heart.
My book talks about how we can customize our prompts to pray to fit our unique circumstances, daily routine, habits, and quirks, and now I’ve created a craft kit that can help you implement these habit-forming prayer prompts in your life!

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Project: Prompt Me to Pray! >NEW< Craft Kit

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Project: Prompt Me to Pray MORE from the HEART

I’ve just finished creating this NEW Prayer-packed Craft Kit available as a PDF!

The Project: Prompt Me to Pray is a practical set of 24 (plus 6 formatted and customizable) Prayer Prompt Cards to be strategically placed around your home, work, car, and school to help us all pray without ceasing (Thessalonians 5:17) from the heart.

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