Category: Prayer & Spirituality

Mother Thecla Generous on Earth and in Heaven

Four or five years after I entered the Daughters of St. Paul, I met Mother Thecla Merlo, our Co-Foundress. (Yes,….

Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles: Model of Proclaiming the Gospel

Considered from the perspective of the spirit that animated it, the various aspects of Paul’s work formed a perfect unity….

Paul’s Origins

The evangelist Luke and Paul himself assure us that the Apostle was a pure‐blooded Jew, who was very proud of….

Jesus Is Everything to Paul

Paul yearns to make Jesus known. He is not interested in anything else. By proclaiming the Gospel, he wants to….

Put on the Lord Jesus

“It’s not enough that we use the media of communication to spread the Gospel, but we ourselves need to become….

The Challenge of the Cinema: Communicating Values in a Media-Dominated Culture

The cinema was born in France in 1895 thanks to the creativity of Auguste and Louis Lumière, who, using a….

Why Pray for Our Deceased Loved Ones?

Recently I viewed an excellent film on purgatory that included a testimony from Father Doug Lorig, a priest in Arizona…..

Alberione’s Secret for Becoming a Great Saint Revealed!

Okay. That’s one of those titles you see in Google Ads whose purpose is to gain click-throughs (and money). Usually….

A Simple Way to Make a Holy Hour (And It’s Easy to Remember) – Part 2

The previous post featured a quote from Blessed James Alberione describing the Way-Truth-Life method for making a Holy Hour. Blessed….

A Simple Way to Make a Holy Hour (AND It’s Easy to Remember!) – Part 1

Blessed James Alberione made several holy hours daily, and he left us a particular “way”–you might call it his own….