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My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Christians down through the ages have used blessed oil as a symbol of God’s empowering, strengthening, and healing power. Blessed oil is a Church-approved sacramental. A sacramental is a prayer aid—blessed objects, sacred signs, or actions the faithful use to outwardly express their devotion and openness to God’s […]

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Last spring, Reader’s Digest published 20 short “mom stories” – touching memories shared from the heart. In one story, Teresa from Illinois talks about her mother, who grew up in a communist country. One day her mother met a very poor blind woman with her daughter. In a […]

Of all the prayers handed down to Christians over the centuries, few equal the beauty and belovedness of the Rosary. Many have heard that Mary gave this prayer to Saint Dominic in the 13th century, but scholars today say the Rosary came about slowly, over many years. By the early 1400s, the word “rosary” sprang […]