The Rosary has been an important part of my devotional and spiritual life ever since I sobered up and reverted to the Church in 2001/02. I have said it daily (most of the time 😉 ) and have even used it as a part of Novena prayers. One thing I hadn’t done until this year …
I have been thinking over the future of the Yahoo Group, Matt Talbot Way of Recovery. It appears to be going in much the same way as previous incarnations of it. For those not in the know, I started “Catholics in Recovery” (later dropping the “in”) in 2008, which lasted until 2010. The service it …
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Many 12 Steppers usually scoff at “religious” solutions to addiction, and perhaps rightly so due to the low success rate (forgetting that AA has a very low success rate, too.) Maybe they also think that religious observance is pointless and is also an “easier, softer, way.” HA! I think the main reason that religious solutions …
August 6th also marks the start of a Novena to St. Maximilian Kolbe . It ends August 14th, his feast day. Here is a Novena prayer you can use, “O Lord Jesus Christ, who said, “greater love than this no man has that a man lay down his life for his friends,” through the intercession …
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Today is August 6th, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. It also marks the beginning of what I call “Second Chance Lent.” The Transfiguration is when Jesus went up Mt. Tabor with three of His disciples and revealed Himself in His Glorified Body and also conferred with Moses and Elijah concerning His upcoming …
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Matthew 25:36: “I was in prison, and you came to me.” (Via Catholic Public Domain Version of the Sacred Bible.) A very good friend of mine is working with the following project. Please help if you can. Below is a copy-and-paste of a post from his blog: Prisoner to Prisoner® Daily Devotional « Bro Jer’s …
I discovered an interesting piece of software that might be very useful for anyone currently suffering or recovering from alcoholism and other addictions, or who have been sober and clean for a long time. It is developed for people with mental health concerns, or who are just interested in tracking their overall mental well-being. But …
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