When I first started RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults), back in the “precedented times” of 2019, I wasn’t sure what to expect. All of my Catholic friends had always been Catholic and received the sacra[...]
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Every year, one of my goals is to read my Bible this year. Whether it’s reading the Bible in a year or simply getting into the Word each day, I try to set clear SMART goals to make sure I’m getting deeper into Script[...]
So much of the struggle to consistently devout time to Bible reading and study boils down to this: lack of planning. When we don’t have a plan for when, how, and what we will read, we spend precious time in ou[...]
All throughout Scripture, we see a strong connection between fasting and prayer. When the people were repenting, when they were asking the Lord for a miracle, or as a form of spiritual preparation, prayer and fasting wen[...]
Until I read the entire Bible this year for the Bible in Lent challenge, I had never read most of the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books of the Bible. When I did this, I realized that, aside from a vague notion of Maccabe[...]