After inviting God to bless your house, welcome the Virgin Mary’s loving presence.While many are familiar with the traditional house blessing, where a priest invokes the power of God to protect a ...

Looking for a Christmastime tradition with a beautiful age-old custom for your family? Plan a house blessing for the new year. As the new year begins, Father Marek Smolka, associate pastor and ...

In today’s culture, where many are longing for a more liturgical style of worship, a pastoral prayer is a wonderful gift to include in Sunday morning worship services. A pastoral prayer is a great way ...

There are many different ways of praying. After giving a strong foundation to its teachings on prayer, the Catechism of the Catholic Church shifts and begins to dissect the many different ways of ...

One way to start out the New Year is to invite God into your home and to ask for his blessings to flow into your home and family. There are many ways to start out the New Year, such as promising to ...

These days it's not unusual to hear people talk about buying a house in a short sale or getting a good deal on one whose former owners faced foreclosure. Which, in the mind of someone tracking ...

What are blessings REALLY? Why do we say, “God bless you”? In this episode, Jimmy Akin masterfully unpacks the mystery of blessings! From praising God to powerful invocative prayers that call down ...