Forty days after Jesus rose from the dead in His Resurrection, He ascended into heaven.
Today is the fortieth day of Easter, known as Ascension Thursday.
Tag: novena
Divine Mercy Novena Begins Tomorrow
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you may remember this post from last year.
I’ll be praying the annual Divine Mercy Novena, and I’m calling you to join me!
9 Days for Life Begins Today
I don’t normally post on Tuesday, but I want to share something important!
Surrender: Reflection and Novena
In a previous post I wrote about surrender. I also shared the Surrender Novena and invited my readers to join me in prayer.
As we begin a new calendar year, many people make “resolutions” for the year.
When I thought about this, I wondered:
What if we focus on a different type of goal this year?
What if we make a dedicated effort each day to surrender to God?
Lourdes Update
In my post Lourdes: A Place of Healing and Grace, I wrote about my desire to go to Lourdes, France this summer. It seems God is allowing my desire to become a reality…
Divine Mercy Novena Begins This Friday
Have you ever heard of the Divine Mercy Novena?
Surrender
Surrender usually refers to defeat and has a negative connotation in society. In Christianity, surrender has an entirely different meaning; and it’s what we’re meant to strive for in our relationship with God!
In my previous post, Waiting…, I emphasized that we’re called to put our lives in the Lord’s hands and trust the plan that He has for each of us; we must genuinely seek God’s will and pray for the grace to accept it. Another word for these actions is surrender.
Our goal as Christians is to allow God to be in charge, trust that He’ll take care of us and not worry about anything.
It may seem that if we give ourselves to Him, we’ll lose something (or everything). That’s a lie that the voices of the world tell us. Jesus tells us the truth:
One Small Rose 