ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 50 Can you earn love? If you have to earn it, it isn’t love! Can you imagine a parent looking at their child and saying, “I’m not going to love you until you obey me.” How terrible would that be? Most children would not get any love until they were 7 or...Continue reading→

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 49 If someone offered you a few hours of ‘free time,’ would you take it? I know I would! But we have to be careful about always seeking ‘free time.’ What matters is how we use our time, not just whether it is “free” or not!   What is “free time”? It’s time...Continue reading→

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 48 What is more valuable than jewels? I once heard a story about a woman who had everything money could buy – a nice car, necklaces, jewels – the whole deal! Someone complimented her on her success. She responded that her husband had bought all of this for her. Then she said...

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 47 Have you noticed that life has gotten faster? Instead of reading newspapers, we watch short videos on social media. Instead of writing letters, we text each other short sentences. It seems as if all of life is getting louder and faster. It can be exhausting! Our devotion to the Sacred Heart...Continue reading→

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 46 What’s the first thing you’d do if you were elected pope? It would be a big responsibility! But if I were smart, I’d pray for God’s guidance! And then, only after that, get some gelato nearby. When Pope Leo XIII became pope, he did something that no pope had ever done...Continue reading→

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 45 Saint John Paul II went on over 100 trips, visited 129 countries, and traveled over 700,000 miles. He set the record for the most travel a pope has ever done! What gave Saint John Paul II the energy for this? It all started with his father’s example at home.  His father,...Continue reading→

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 44 If St. Padre Pio gave you advice, would you take it? If you were smart, you would! Padre Pio was an exceptionally holy man. A Capuchin friar in Italy during the 20th-century, Padre Pio had the stigmata (the wounds of Jesus), was known for bilocation (appearing in two places at once),...Continue reading→

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 43 Have you ever wondered why people are proud of their flags? A flag is physically just a piece of cloth. But it represents something profound: your country. Flags represent something we belong to, owe a debt of gratitude to, and – in the case of heroic soldiers – will even die...

ROSARY NOVENA: DAY 42 If the Church was splitting apart, what would be the answer? Unfortunately this was reality for people living in the 1600s. The Protestant Reformation had fractured the Christian world. Where there had been one, unified faith in communion with the Pope, there were now dozens of competing doctrines, faiths, and heresies....Continue reading→