I have an admission to make. In my life I’ve been a parent, a pastor, and a children’s book author, and yet I wouldn’t give myself high marks when it comes to family devotions with my five children.
The next day I canceled all but two of my speaking appointments for the following year and determined to stay home. That decision led to the start of Focus on the Family and a film series seen by 80 ...
I suppose it’s time to grow up and settle into the routine of being a devout religious person again. I just keep putting it off. Maybe I’ll wait till I have a real career and start a family. Even then ...
Soon, other groups were formed, and the devotion rapidly became popular ... We read in the hymn from Matins on the feast of the Holy Family: ‘It is pleasing to recall the humble house of ...
2 Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is of great antiquity in the Church. It was St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, however, who made this devotion widespread. In 1675, within the octave of the feast ...