This prayer comes from the teachings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who had visions of Jesus Christ in the 1930s. In these visions, Jesus asked her to spread the message of Divine Mercy, ...

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What do a certain Polish nun and a certain Polish pope have in common? They both became saints, and they were both instrumental in the institution of Divine Mercy Sunday, which offers many graces to ...

Years ago, when I first received the one-volume Liturgy of the Hours (“The Divine Office”), it came with a card that had a prayer prefaced with the words: “The following prayer may be said before ...

On Friday nights, some people de-stress by working out at the gym or having drinks at their favorite bar. Others enjoy a shot of the Holy Spirit on their way home. As 7’s Brandon Beyer tells us, at ...

Prayer is a difficult thing to explain. There is a fair amount of confusion about what prayer is ‘for’ and concern about what prayer ‘does’ – as if it was a kind of divine vending machine where ...

"Something … Some force… Someone that makes me dance." For Manjari Chaturvedi, the creation of Sufi Kathak as a medium of expression was not part of a conscious ...

The prolific writer and well-known creativity guru best known for her Artist's Way method of developing creativity pens another prayer book for the spiritual-but-not-religious group. Although prayer ...