Jeanie Hannaman

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - During this season of Lent, we make it a point of discipline and charity to pray, fast, and give alms. It has long been my practice to make a special effort during this season to pray, with more consistency than I manage during the rest of the year, the Liturgy of the Hours... For anyone looking to structure his day around prayer – rather than being content to fit prayer within the allowances of a busy day – the Divine Office is particularly beneficial. ....

By Fr. Wayne Sattler, Catholic Exchange - St. Teresa of Avila would advise her sisters that “a prayer in which a person is not aware of whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of whom, I do not call prayer however much the lips move” (Interior Castle 1.1.7).  She goes on to observe how “anyone in the habit of speaking before God’s majesty as though he were speaking to a slave, without being careful to see how he is speaking, but saying whatever comes to his head and whatever he has learned from saying at other times, in my opinion is not praying.”

By  Gavin Ashenden, The Catholic Herald - It’s not that I’m jealous of Fr Mike Schmitz and his success in producing an app that takes you through the Catechism in one year – and which has been downloaded millions of times – but I’m certainly inspired. The Catechism is one of the richest resources in the Catholic Church; Protestantism falls apart into thousands of splinters without an authoritative presentation of what the Church believes and teaches... It’s one of the reasons so many people convert to Catholicism from Protestant denominations. In a society where so many people feel cast adrift without moorings, there is an ever-increasing hunger for something that contains the ring of truth .....