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Many parishes report a resurgence in Eucharistic adoration — and a few are going the extra mile (or extra day or two) with a practice that many thought had vanished: the 40 Hours devotion. Florida is seeing it return in at least one diocese: Forty Hours “is something that has not been done for a…

Madonna of the Rosary (with Mysteries of the Rosary)by Lorenzo Lotto(1539) Oil on canvasChurch of San Nicolo, Cingoli The Rosary is a way of contemplating the face of Christ seeing him – we may say – with the eyes of Mary. For this reason, it is a prayer that drawing upon the core of the…

Some people might file this under the category of “Dog Bites Man” — not news, and not all that surprising. But it’s interesting that the subject of prayer and contemplation is generating some serious study. This comes from a Catholic website in the UK: Catholics feel less pain than atheists and agnostics after contemplating the…

Well, this really hit home. Over at The Anchoress, the venerable A herself has knocked one out of the park on the subject of prayer and fasting: I’m thinking we’re in the middle of a mystery, that this whole, odd, unpredictable and too-long election season has been run along one of those threads connecting things…
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