The National Day of Prayer is today, May 4, 2023, when the nation’s faithful renew prayer lives, turn to God with heartfelt requests for this country and also give thanks for all we have as Americans, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – A noted local author and professor at Virginia Wesleyan University has now produced a movie “Hollywood, Teach Us to Pray.” It takes a look at how Hollywood movies of the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) What is prayer? In simplest terms it is talking with God. Knowing how to pray, however, is not enough. We must learn to pray effectively. That means we must pray in such a way that ...

An Italian priest named Father Charles Vachetta is credited with writing a novena in 1721 to inspire his parishioners during Advent. Today, that novena is known as the “Christmas novena.” The nine-day ...

Christians are accustomed to thinking about life in terms of loving God and loving neighbor. These are, after all, the greatest commandments. The neighbors that come readiest to mind are human ...

Prayers for the faithful departed are not just for All Souls’ Day or the month of November. The Sacred Scriptures (2 Maccabees 12:45) and the Church (CCC 958) remind Catholics of the importance of ...

What is it about prayer that links it to preaching? Why would a person like Martin Luther set down as a spiritual axiom that “he who has prayed well has studied well”? Why would E. M. Bounds, the ...