It sounds simple, but if you make a habit of it, taking thirty seconds of silence before (and after) your spoken prayer can improve your family prayer time and lay the foundation for kids to learn meditative prayer.
Make Ordinary Time special with your family
“It’s ordinary time,” my son lamented. “Nothing exciting until Advent.” But as astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno reminded me, ordinary time is special in its own way. What ways will you and your family mark this liturgical season of growing closer to knowing Jesus together as a family? How will you make ordinary time extraordinary this year? Here are six family faith practices to make ordinary time special with your family.
How to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy • Prayers for Catholic kids
This simple devotion introduced by St. Faustina Kowalska in 1935 focuses on God’s mercy, and is easy for kids to learn. Here’s how to pray it, plus a history of the devotion and two videos you can show your kids.
Clothing the naked and sheltering the homeless
One of my favorite saints’ stories is about St. Martin of Tours. As the legend goes, one day, Martin, a young soldier, saw a beggar on the side of the […]
Forgiveness algebra: The other side of the equation
Every Catholic knows forgiveness algebra: 7 x 70 times = the number of times we should forgive someone who hurts us (see Matthew 18:22, RSV). Maybe the reason it gets […]