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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 41365 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-09-18 22:11:57 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-09-18 22:11:57 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 2023 </strong>- Hallow, the No. 1 Christian prayer app, today announced a new partnership with Holy Cross College in South Bend, Ind., to bring Hallow’s prayer resources to its campus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">With the new partnership, all members of the Holy Cross College community will receive free premium access to Hallow’s robust library of prayers and Catholic, faith-based meditation.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“I am thrilled for the partnership with Hallow – the #1 prayer app in the world,” said Dr. Marco Clark, president of Holy Cross College. “Through this collaboration, made possible from the generosity of the Tom &amp; Glory Sullivan Foundation, our students, faculty, and staff now have spiritual tools to grow in their discipleship with Jesus Christ.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holy Cross College is the latest college to partner with Hallow and make available to its students prayers and meditations that include:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Daily prayer content, including the daily Mass reading, the Rosary, daily Examens, and the Divine Mercy Chaplet;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mini-courses of specific faith topics, including The Science of Happiness by Harvard Business School professor Dr. Arthur Brooks, Spiritual Warfare by exorcist Fr. Vincent Lampert, and A Biblical Walk Through the Mass by Dr. Edward Sri.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Meditations and reflections on overcoming common emotional wounds by Sr. Miriam James Heidland and Dr. Bob Schuchts of the John Paul II Healing Center;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Sessions on understanding and overcoming stress and anxiety with Regina Boyd, LMHC, founder of Boyd Counseling Services;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Prayers and Bible Stories geared toward finding peace before going to sleep, led by familiar voices such as Mario Lopez, Mark Wahlberg, Sarah Swafford, Fr. Mike Schmitz, and Emily Wilson.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Supporting young people in their faith journey is central to Hallow’s mission,” said Alessandro DiSanto, Hallow Co-Founder. “We’re honored to support Holy Cross College in its mission to lead people to wholeness in the image of Christ.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The partnership is effective immediately, and Holy Cross College students, faculty, and staff can now access Hallow’s premium content for free.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“As a regular user of Hallow, I can attest to the value that this resource has been in my relationship with Jesus Christ,”&nbsp; Clark said.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About Hallow</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow helps people deepen their relationship with God through audio-guided prayers, sleep meditations, Bible readings, meditations and music. The app has over 10,000 sessions including a daily Rosary, daily Gospel, daily saint, novenas, examens, Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year, The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie’s audio Bible, Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons, peaceful Christian music, Gregorian chant and so much more. Launched in December 2018, Hallow is now the number one Catholic app in the world with over 200 million prayers completed across 150-plus countries.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About Holy Cross</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Holy Cross College mission is to educate and form global citizens with the competence to see and the courage to act. Holy Cross is a Catholic college, founded in 1966, that advances the apostolic mission of the Holy Cross Brothers. Our practical, experiential, liberal arts curriculum applies timeless truths to contemporary life and leads people to wholeness in the image of Christ.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Hallow Partners With Holy Cross College to Support Prayer Life on Campus [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => hallow-partners-with-holy-cross-college-to-support-prayer-life-on-campus [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-09-18 22:12:00 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-09-18 22:12:00 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=41365 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 41203 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-09-13 11:43:01 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-09-13 11:43:01 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Contemplative Prayer: Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#definition">What Is Contemplative Prayer?</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#contemplation-vs-meditation">Contemplative Prayer vs. Meditative Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#history">History: St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#ignatian-contemplation">St. Ignatius and Ignatian Contemplation</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#thomas-merton">Thomas Merton and Seeds of Contemplation</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#gallagher">Imaginative Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="definition">What Is Contemplative Prayer?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Contemplative prayer is when we use our minds and hearts, and sometimes our imaginative ability, to recognize God’s presence and fix our gaze on Him. It seeks to achieve a union with God and is characterized by quiet, stillness, and simply resting in God’s presence.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">According to Pope Francis, who considers contemplation the <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-05/pope-francis-general-audience-contemplative-prayer-action.html">salt that gives flavor to our day</a>, contemplation is less a way of “doing” and more a way of “being.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Contemplative prayer, or imaginative prayer, has a rich history in the Church but probably goes back to Jesus himself. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k3CrvJJZkqEC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q=contemplation&amp;f=false">Some theologians</a> consider Jesus a contemplative, pointing to the times Jesus went off by himself to pray in solitude and how He encourages the disciples (and all of us) to “go into your inner room” for prayer (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6&amp;version=NABRE">Matthew 6:6</a>).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/contemplativeprayer">Try Contemplative Prayer With Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="contemplation-vs-meditation">Contemplation/Contemplative Prayer vs. Meditation</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Contemplation is a foundational type of prayer in the Catholic faith, but it’s distinct from other forms of prayer, like meditation.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-christian-meditation/">Meditation</a> is the use of the understanding, the reasoning faculty to come to know God's revelation better. Contemplation is the use of the imagination to achieve the same end.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In meditation, we use our mind to ponder. It’s an active endeavor, usually involving a “source material” to prompt us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Contemplation, <a href="https://www.catholicdigest.com/amp/from-the-magazine/ask-father/ask-father-describe-the-difference-between-meditation-and-contemplation/">on the other hand</a>, represents a fulfillment of all of our efforts to deepen our personal relationship with God. It has the character of a gift: we are given the grace of gazing lovingly on the very source of our life.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Fr. Dennis Gallagher, AA suggests we view meditation and contemplation as “two ends of a continuum.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And Thomas Merton points out that meditation can support more contemplative prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“(Thomas) Merton notes that vocal prayer, meditation, and the sacraments (especially celebration of the liturgy) nourish the life of active contemplation,” <a href="https://blogs.sjcme.edu/theology/merton-on-contemplation/#_edn1">Sr. Marilyn Sunderman, RSM wrote</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="history">Contemplative Prayer Historical Roots - Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If Jesus demonstrated the practice of contemplative prayer, it’s likely the early Church observed some form of it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We see clearer roots through fifth-century monk John Cassian, one of the “Desert Fathers,” who described contemplative prayer in his book, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k3CrvJJZkqEC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q=contemplation&amp;f=false"><em>The Conference</em></a><em>.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"Every monk who longs for the continual awareness of God should be in the habit of meditating on it ceaselessly in his heart, after having driven out every kind of thought, because he will be unable to hold fast to it in any other way than by being freed from all bodily cares and concerns," he wrote.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"This, then, is the devotional formula proposed to you as absolutely necessary for possessing the perpetual awareness of God: "'O God, incline unto my aid; O Lord, make haste to help me."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The tradition remained in the Church for a thousand years when one of the most famous contemplatives in Church history, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-teresa-of-avila-prayers-quotes-feast-day/">St. Teresa of Avila</a> (Hallow’s <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">patron saint</a>!), took up the practice.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She <a href="https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/652/">described contemplative prayer</a> as “nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him whom we know loves us.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A contemporary and friend of St. Teresa, St. John of the Cross, a fellow Spanish mystic, also wrote about contemplative prayer, in his work “Counsels and Maxims of the Spirit.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetites and our tongue,” he wrote,&nbsp; “for the language He best hears is silent love.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Another 16th-century saint would further popularize contemplative prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="ignatian-contemplation">St. Ignatius’s Form of Contemplation: Imaginative Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/ignatius-loyola/">St. Ignatius</a> was transformed in his faith during a period of quiet and stillness–he was bedridden after recovering from a cannonball and began reading books about Jesus and the saints.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In addition to being the founder of the Jesuits and being a champion of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-examen/">daily examen</a>, he also popularized a unique form of contemplation called imaginative prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In imaginative prayer, one imagines him or herself in a particular setting, often one from Scripture.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Igantius recognized that no one could not effectively “teach” or “do” contemplative prayer, since God does all the heavy lifting in contemplation.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“A major difference between Ignatius and these writers is that they would provide the imaginative experience for prayer, but Ignatius preferred to set the stage and leave the imaginative work to God and the retreatant,” <a href="https://thejesuitpost.org/2021/10/jesuit-101-ignatian-contemplation-encountering-god-through-our-imagination/">writes Jesuit Tucker Redding, SJ</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ignatius echoed St. Teresa of Avila’s description of contemplation as sharing between close friends, encouraging those doing imaginative prayer to spend some time in conversation with Jesus “as one friend speaks to another.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While we may open ourselves up to contemplation, and this conversation with God, the true encounter all stems from grace.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Contemplation, like all prayer, is pure gift, and not anything we can achieve,” <a href="https://www.loyolapress.com/catholic-resources/prayer/personal-prayer-life/different-ways-to-pray/the-gift-of-contemplative-prayer-by-margaret-silf/">writes Margaret Silf,</a> an expert on Ignatian spirituality. “It happens when prayer becomes, wholly and utterly, the flow of God’s grace, transforming the land it flows through, like Ezekiel’s stream.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="thomas-merton">Thomas Merton and Seeds of Contemplation</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the 20th century, Merton, an American Trappist monk, inspired a new generation of Catholics to encounter God through contemplative prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One difficulty he found, however, is in “teaching” someone contemplation. He, like Ignatius, recognized that contemplation was not something that could clearly be taught or actively “done.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“No one teaches contemplation except God, Who gives it,” Merton wrote in <em>New Seeds of Contemplation</em>. “The best you can do is write something or say something that will serve as an occasion for someone else to realize what God wants of him.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is what Merton sought to do.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Merton wrote prolifically, often on the topic of contemplative prayer. He believed contemplative prayer had the power to change the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“If the salvation of society depends, in the long run, on the moral and spiritual health of individuals, the subject of contemplation becomes a vastly important one, since contemplation is one of the indications of spiritual maturity,” Merton wrote in <em>A Book of Hours</em>. “It is closely allied to sanctity. You cannot save the world merely with a system. You cannot have peace without charity. You cannot have social order with saints, mystics and prophets.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="gallagher">Fr. Thomas Gallagher and Imaginative Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While contemplation cannot be taught, we can strive to follow the example of Thomas Merton and offer something that might spark an encounter with God for someone else.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Fr. <a href="https://www.frtimothygallagher.org/">Timothy Gallagher</a>, a priest from the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, has spent decades bringing people to God through imaginative prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Imaginative prayer, or in the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/ignatian-spirituality-and-the-spiritual-exercises/">Ignatian tradition</a>, imaginative contemplation, describes how we can open ourselves to the Gospel and enter into it imaginatively, allowing our whole heart to be present for God to mingle with.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s as if a scene from Scripture is playing at a movie theater. We might sit and meditate over what we see. Imagine prayer is as if we walked into the theater and were immediately in the movie. In the scene. Experiencing it with hearts receptive to the Lord.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In a new course on Hallow, Fr. Gallagher will guide users through these opportunities to be open to God’s grace.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Try imaginative prayer and join Fr. Gallagher’s course today.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/contemplativeprayer">Pray With Fr. Gallagher on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/daily-prayer-prayers-for-today/">Daily Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-54-day-novena/">54-Day Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">7 Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-marian-consecration/">Marian Consecration</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/the-imitation-of-christ/">The Imitation of Christ</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">St. Augustine Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Contemplative Prayer, Imaginative Prayer and Encountering God in the Silence [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => contemplative-prayer-imaginative-prayer [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-07-24 17:22:24 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-07-24 17:22:24 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=41203 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 41142 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-09-11 21:48:22 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-09-11 21:48:22 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Catholic education in America predates America itself.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ursuline Academy, a high school, <a href="https://clarionherald.org/news/tradition-of-catholic-education-began-with-ursuline-academy">first opened its doors</a> in New Orleans in 1727, but it would be another 50+ years until America had its first Catholic college.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Georgetown University traces its roots back to 1789, and in the nearly 250 years since then, many other Catholic colleges and universities have contributed to the mission of Catholic education in America.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Today, Hallow celebrates the impact—spanning centuries—that these institutions have made by recognizing the oldest Catholic college or university that is still operational in every state:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <div class="flourish-embed flourish-map" data-src="visualisation/14929966"><script src="https://public.flourish.studio/resources/embed.js"></script></div> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-midwest-home-to-several-bi-centennial-schools">Midwest Home to Several ‘Bi-Centennial’ Schools</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Some of the oldest Catholic colleges in the U.S. are found in the Midwest.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Louisville’s Spalding University (1814) and Missouri’s Saint Louis University (1818) have been providing Catholic education in their respective communities for more than 200 years each.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Loras College, in Dubuque, Iowa, has been around since 1839. The Hawkeye State is also home to other acclaimed, long-standing Catholic colleges, including Clarke University (1843), St. Ambrose University (1882), and Mercy College of Health Sciences (1899).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Xavier University in Chicago is the oldest operational Catholic college in Illinois, having opened in 1846–just 14 years before Quincy University opened 300 miles away in Quincy, Ill.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In Indiana, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College has operated since Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded it in 1840. Notre Dame (1842), St. Mary’s College (1844), and Marian University (1851) are among other stalwarts of Catholic education in the Hoosier State.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-oldest-and-only">Oldest and Only</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In some states with a smaller footprint of Catholic post-secondary education, the oldest Catholic college is also the only Catholic college.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Maine’s St. Joseph’s College has been around since 1912 and is the only Catholic college in the Pine Tree State.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Similarly, Chaminade University, founded in 1955, represents Hawaii’s only Catholic college. The Dakotas have one Catholic College each: the University of Mary (1959) in North Dakota and Mount Mary University (1951) in South Dakota.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Belmont Abbey College, which first opened in 1876, is North Carolina’s lone Catholic college. Since 2007, Wyoming been home to a Catholic institution of higher learning: Wyoming Catholic College.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-mount-st-mary-s-still-going-strong">Mount St. Mary’s Still Going Strong</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mount St. Mary’s University is the second oldest Catholic college still in operation. Founded in 1808 in Emmitsburg, Md., it has educated future congress members, Supreme Court justices, professional athletes and coaches, not to mention bishops, archbishops, priests, and martyrs.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It shows no signs of slowing down. In May 2023, it <a href="https://news.msmary.edu/2023/05/2023-graduates-facts-figures-and-people-to-know.html">graduated 616 students</a> and featured alum Todd Bowles, the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as a commencement speaker.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-some-states-lack-a-catholic-college">Some States Lack a Catholic College</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ten states currently lack any Catholic college or university: Delaware, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Alaska.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This hasn’t always been the case. Oklahoma lost St. Gregory’s University in 2017. In Arkansas, Little Rock College, a Catholic institution, <a href="https://www.arkansas-catholic.org/news/article/4872/St-John-Center-campus-founded-in-1916-as-a-college">closed in 1930</a>. New Mexico’s only Catholic college <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/04/29/catholic-colleges-are-searching-new-homes-southwest-can-they-succeed">shut its doors in 2009</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Delaware has been without a Catholic college <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44210634">since 1867</a>, when St. Mary’s College closed after 20 years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In other places, however, Catholic education is taking root.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In Arizona, through a partnership with Arizona State University, the University of Mary now offers Catholic post-secondary education in Tempe.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://ben.edu/about/campus-locations/mesa-campus/">Benedictine University</a> is also a relatively new Catholic college in Arizona, which has a large (and growing) Catholic population. <a href="https://www.catholic.edu/tucson/about-us/index.html">Catholic University of America</a> now has a presence in Arizona (Tucson) as well.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In Wyoming, Wyoming Catholic College <a href="https://wyomingcatholic.edu/about/history/">became the state’s first ever Catholic college</a> in 2007.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Browse the map above and explore some of the oldest Catholic colleges across the country. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn more about how you can support Catholic education by visiting the <a href="https://www.ncea.org/">NCEA website</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Hallow Reveals Oldest Catholic Colleges Across America  [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => oldest-catholic-colleges-america [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-09-12 19:56:03 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-09-12 19:56:03 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=41142 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 41071 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-09-09 15:04:53 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-09-09 15:04:53 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">September 11th, 2001 unquestionably represents one of the darkest days in history and lowest points of humanity.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While we may heal with time, we certainly will never forget what happened, we can continue to pray for all of the lives lost and impacted on that terrible day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Prayer was the response of many that day.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Students and faculty at Creighton University, a thousand miles away in Omaha, Neb., packed the church for the noon Mass, with a crowd so large, people stood in the aisles of the church, <a href="https://alumni.creighton.edu/news-events/news/911-photos-archives">as seen in these photos from the school’s archives</a>. A similarly large crowd flocked to a prayer service that evening.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Just a few miles from Ground Zero at <a href="https://saintpatrickscathedral.org/">St. Patrick’s Cathedral</a>, Cardinal Egan prepared to celebrate a lunch time Mass at the famous Fifth Avenue church in Manhattan.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“I thought we'd have the usual group for a daily Mass — about 500. The cathedral was packed. People were out on the streets,” he <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/news/cardinal-egan-remembers-9-11">told the National Catholic Register</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Egan later described the impact that 9/11 had on New Yorkers as an event that “woke us up.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/patriotday">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“It was evil,” he said, “but the people reacted with renewed commitment to the Lord. It might have done us more good than we suspect.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">More than 20 years later, the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks is still an occasion in which we gather together for prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We may not stand side by side physically, but we’re united in Christ when we lift up our hearts in prayer to remember this day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are some prayers you can consider on September 11 or anytime when you want to remember all of those impacted by the evil events that day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-pope-benedict-prayer-at-ground-zero">Pope Benedict Prayer at Ground Zero</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>God of understanding,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>overwhelmed by the magnitude of this tragedy,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>we seek your light and guidance</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>as we confront such terrible events.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Grant that those whose lives were spared</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>may live so that the lives lost here</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>may not have been lost in vain.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Comfort and console us,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>strengthen us in hope,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and give us the wisdom and courage</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>to work tirelessly for a world</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>where true peace and love reign</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>among nations and in the hearts of all.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Pope Benedict XVI</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">(<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2008/april/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20080420_ground-zero-ny.html">via The Vatican</a>)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-pray-with-the-beatitudes">Pray with the Beatitudes</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Consider praying with the beatitudes on the occasion of September 11th:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Blessed are they who mourn,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>for they will be comforted....</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>for they will be satisfied.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Blessed are the merciful,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>for they will be shown mercy....</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Blessed are the peacemakers,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>For they will be called children of God.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Matthew 5:4,6,7,9</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-9-11-anniversary-prayer">9/11 Anniversary Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">God of Peace and Mercy, on this anniversary for September 11, we lift up the souls who perished on that day. Welcome them with loving arms into Your kingdom. Comfort their families and friends. Help us to mourn alongside them with a constant compassion that can only be rooted in You. May we look to the first responders that day to inspire us to live bravely and courageously, and to selflessly protect others in need. May we look to those who opened up their homes to the stranded and displaced that day to stir us to be more hospitable. Having seen the face of evil and darkness, may we be steadfast and faithful in pursuing You, our perpetual Light. In Jesus’s name we pray. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/patriotday">Get the Hallow App</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-intercessory-prayers-on-september-11">Intercessory Prayers on September 11</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For liturgies or prayer services on 9/11, consider these intentions/prayers of intercession:</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For our military, police, firefighters and all first responders, may You bless them, keep them safe, and help them to make good decisions. We pray to the Lord.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For all veterans, from all wars, may You strengthen us to help and serve them. We pray to the Lord.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For peace in all places of the world that experience violence, we pray to the Lord.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For our world leaders, may they unite to create a world where life is protected, not destroyed, in a place where peace flourishes, even when different groups of people disagree. We pray to the Lord.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For those who were not yet born on September 11, may they never experience in their lifetime such a profound act of evil. We pray to the Lord.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>For the grace to be forgiving and show mercy, we pray to the Lord.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you'd like to make a donation to help those impacted by September 11, consider a contribution to the <a href="https://www.fdnyfoundation.org/">FDNY Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.nycpolicefoundation.org/">New York City Police Foundation</a>, or the <a href="https://www.familiesoffreedom.org/">Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund</a>, which provides scholarships and support to the children of those killed or badly injured during the 9/11 attacks. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-hope/">Prayers for Hope</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">7 Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-strength/">Prayers for Strength</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Prayers for 9/11 (Patriot Day): Prayers for the Anniversary of September 11th and to Remember the Lives Lost [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => prayers-for-september-11-patriot-day [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-09-09 15:04:53 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-09-09 15:04:53 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=41071 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 40796 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-09-01 20:35:28 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-09-01 20:35:28 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"<strong>The Imitation of Christ": Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Overview</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#history">History</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#four-books">Four Books</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#popularity">Popularity</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#impact-on-saints">Impact on Saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#pray">Pray with The Imitation of Christ</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"The Imitation of Christ," which was the foundation of Hallow’s 2023 <a href="https://hallow.com/pray40/">Pray40</a> Lent prayer challenge, has inspired the faith lives of millions of people spanning hundreds of years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Despite the countless lives it’s changed, it’s a book that still remains a bit of a mystery to many Christians.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn all about "The Imitation of Christ" and join Hallow’s Imitation of Christ prayer challenge this fall.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/imitationofchrist">Pray with The Imitation of Christ on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="history">History</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"The Imitation of Christ" was published anonymously but is believed to have been written by a German-Dutch monk named Thomas à Kempis.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Kempis was a Dutch/German monk who was born in 1380 and whose duties as a monk included writing, transcribing and instruction.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"The Imitation of Christ" began as an instruction for other monks, Kempis wrote it as a conversation between Christ and His disciple, as a daily meditation resource.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Kempis published it sometime <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JI7AA0GAbUgC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">between 1420 and 1427</a> in the Netherlands, and it rapidly soared in popularity, with 745 different editions published across more than eight languages by 1650.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="four-books">The Four Books&nbsp;of 'The Imitation of Christ'</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Similar to the Bible, Catholics and Protestants <a href="https://digital-exhibits.library.nd.edu/04f477d5b4/preserving-the-steadfastness-of-your-faith/showcases/a69af77858/the-many-editions-of-the-imitation-of-christ">use different translations</a> of "The Imitation of Christ", yet the main divisions of the book are the same.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The entire work features four “books,” each of which addresses a different aspect of spirituality and faith:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Book 1: Admonitions, Useful for the Spiritual Life</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Book 2: Admonitions Concerning Internal Things</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Book 3: Of Internal Consolation</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Book 4: Concerning the Holy Communion.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Each book uses a similar language and tone that is very direct and, at times, strongly worded.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One person <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/zzd93e/about_the_imitation_of_christ/j2ax3wm/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button">reviewing the book</a> on the Catholicism subreddit of Reddit said they were “shocked” by the tone at first, suggesting that type of direct language was more common in the Middle Ages than it is now. However, they went on to describe the book as “soul-enriching.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">&nbsp;It focuses on humility, discipline and love, with an eye towards imitating Jesus on a daily basis.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“No sin will there be which shall not be visited with its own proper punishment,” <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1653/pg1653-images.html">Kempis wrote</a>. “The proud shall be filled with utter confusion, and the covetous shall be pinched with miserable poverty.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Much like the message of Jesus Himself, the words of Kempis were rather counter-cultural, both when "The Imitation of Christ" was first published as well as in modern times.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“He unsettles the comfortable pieties of modernity,” wrote <a href="https://library.mibckerala.org/lms_frame/eBook/Church%20History/Roman%20Catholicism/Miola%20-%20Early%20Modern%20Catholicism.%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Primary%20Sources%20(OUP).pdf">Robert Miola</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Despite the challenging tone (or perhaps because of it!), Kempis’s masterpiece exploded in popularity almost immediately.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="popularity">Popularity</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As Maximilian Von Habsburg points out in his book “Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425–1650: From Late Medieval Classic to Early Modern Bestseller,” the sheer volume of different editions published is a testament to the book’s popularity.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"The number of editions is testimony to the text's persistent appeal," <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3BppyUmrY5QC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">he wrote</a>, "especially since the number of copies of a specific edition is seldom quantifiable."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Von Habsburg also points out that the book inspired so much further writing, in the following centuries, people citing The Imitation of Christ in their writing did not include the book in their bibliographies “on the basis that it was too common.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In other words, people would cite lines from "The Imitation of Christ" and just assume that readers would know the reference. Few-if any–books today enjoy such wide-reaching popularity!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Among those impacted by the book were future <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/">saints</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="impact-on-saints">Impact on Saints</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse of Lisieux</a>, one of the four female doctors of the church, famously appreciated "The Imitation of Christ."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“For a long time I had nourished my spiritual life with the ‘fine flour’ contained in "The Imitation of Christ." It was the only book which did me good, for I had not yet found the treasures hidden in the Holy Gospels. I always had it with me, to the amusement of my people at home,” <a href="https://www.ccel.org/ccel/therese/autobio.xiii.html">she wrote</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">During the 11 months in which he lived in a cave in Manresa, Spain, <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/ignatius-loyola/">St. Ignatius</a> “<a href="https://ost.edu/mysticism-practice-ignatius-loyola/">grew to love</a>” "The Imitation of Christ" and shortly after, penned his now famous <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/ignatian-spirituality-and-the-spiritual-exercises/">Spiritual Exercises</a> (and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-examen/">daily examen</a>).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Since then he had never wished to read any other devotional book. He recommended it to all he had dealings with,” <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/01/11/have-you-read-most-circulated-book-history-christianity-after-bible">wrote Gonçalves da Câmara</a>, the Portuguese Jesuit to whom Ignatius dictated his autobiography. “After dinner and at other times he would open it at random and he always came across something that was close to his heart at that time and which he needed.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In an August 2006 General Audience, Pope Benedict XVI <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2006/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20060809.pdf">called</a> "The Imitation of Christ" “that golden text of spirituality.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But you don’t need to be a saint or a pope for "The Imitation of Christ" to have a major impact on your life.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-praying-with-the-imitation-of-christ">Praying with 'The Imitation of Christ'</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Just as "The Imitation of Christ" shaped the faith lives of saints, it can ignite your own faith life as well.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Sparked by the popularity of Hallow’s Pray40 Lent Prayer Challenged centered on "The Imitation of Christ," Hallow is excited to launch a new daily content series exploring this landmark work of spiritual guidance.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Join Jim Caviezel, the actor who portrayed Jesus in the Passion of the Christ, and Sr. Orianne in reading and reflecting on one chapter of the book each day, journeying through the entirety of The Imitation of Christ.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/imitationofchrist">👉 Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">7 Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-st-michael-chaplet/">St. Michael Chaplet</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/lent-fasting-rules/">Lent Fasting Rules</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">How to Pray the Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => 'The Imitation of Christ': Overview of the Powerful Christian Devotional Book [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => the-imitation-of-christ [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-07-24 17:29:12 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-07-24 17:29:12 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=40796 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 40778 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-09-01 18:14:38 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-09-01 18:14:38 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Teresa of Calcutta, known globally as “Mother Teresa,” was born in 1910 in Skopje, Albania, as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Teresa was an ordinary person who devoted her life to loving the poor with extraordinary measures. She received the <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1979/summary/">Nobel Peace Prize</a> “for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity” in 1979 and was canonized about two decades after her death by Pope Francis in 2016.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Every year, we celebrate the St. Teresa of Calcutta's feast day on September 5, the anniversary of her death. Continue reading to learn more about Mother Teresa’s biography, her path to sainthood, and the quotes and prayers she wrote in her lifetime that continue to impact millions.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#h-who-was-mother-teresa">Who was Mother Teresa?</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#h-path-to-sainthood">Path to Sainthood</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#h-emergency-flying-novena">“Flying” Emergency Novena Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#h-i-thirst-meditation">“I Thirst” Meditation</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#h-do-it-anyway-poem-prayer">“Do it Anyway” Poem-Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#h-mother-teresa-famous-quotes">Mother Teresa’s Famous Quotes</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#faith-quotes">Faith</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#kindness-quotes">Kindness</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#love-quotes">Love</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#peace-quotes">Peace</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#h-related-saints-and-prayers">Related Saints and Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-who-was-mother-teresa">Who was Mother Teresa?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While Agnes and her siblings were young, Agnes’ mother and father emphasized hospitality and serving the poor. When Agnes was 9, her father fell ill, and her mother, Drana, was left a widower. Drana continued to serve the poor, sick, and elderly, and Agnes would occasionally join her.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">At 18, Agnes entered the novitiate (a period of training and discernment before entering religious life) of Loretto, where she taught at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta, India. She made final vows as a sister of the Loretto order in 1937 and took on the name Teresa, after <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse of Lisieux,</a> who took her vocational name after <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-teresa-of-avila-prayers-quotes-feast-day/">St. Teresa of Ávila</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Sisters of Loretto take several vows, including poverty, chastity, and obedience; she taught alongside them in Calcutta for 15 years.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-call-within-a-call">“Call within a call”</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 1946, Teresa was traveling via train from Calcutta to Darjeeling for her annual retreat. She experienced a profound moment which she later referred to as her “call within a call” – when Jesus spoke to her and inspired the famous “I thirst” prayer known worldwide.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">About two years later, the Loretto Order permitted Teresa to depart from the convent and began serving the slums of Calcutta. In 1950, she <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/teresa/stories/highlights.htm">founded</a> the Missionaries of Charity order with the <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1979/teresa/biographical/#:~:text=On%20October%207%2C%201950%2C%20Mother,decree%20of%20Pope%20Paul%20VI.">purpose</a> “to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-dark-night-of-the-soul">“Dark night of the soul”</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mother Teresa continued to serve the poor for the rest of her life, receiving many <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/teresa/stories/highlights.htm">awards</a>, including the Medal of Freedom in 1985 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Like many <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/">saints</a> and Christians, she did not go without spiritual distress or despair.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Called a “dark night of the soul” after the spiritual poem by St. John of the Cross, Teresa suffered for fifty years. Her writings on this intense spiritual darkness and doubt, however, did not become public until the book <em>Come Be My Light</em>, a collection of her private writings, was published in 2007 in the period between her beatification and canonization.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">By the end of her life, the Missionaries of Charity had more than <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/answering-a-call-within-a-call-5687">4,000</a> members. <a href="https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/from-calcutta-to-california-how-the">Today</a>, the Missionaries of Charity are present in 120 counties, and the sisters run 750 houses.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-path-to-sainthood">Path to Sainthood</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-cause-for-canonziation">Cause for Canonziation</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Pope John Paul II <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/19/world/europe/mother-teresas-path-to-sainthood-cleared-by-vatican.html">opened</a> the cause for Mother Teresa’s canonization just two years after her death, waving the standard 5-year waiting period before beatification with a special dispensation.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-beatification-october-19-2003-nbsp">Beatification - October 19, 2003&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On October 19, 2003 (World Mission Sunday), St. Pope John Paul II <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/2003/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20031019_mother-theresa.html">beatified</a> Mother Teresa.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Her life is a testimony to the dignity and the privilege of humble service. She had chosen to be not just the least but to be the servant of the least. As a real mother to the poor, she bent down to those suffering various forms of poverty. Her greatness lies in her ability to give without counting the cost, to give "until it hurts". Her life was a radical living and a bold proclamation of the Gospel.”&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-canonization-september-4-2016">Canonization - September 4, 2016</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">About 13 years later, Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa on September 4, 2016.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of </em><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-divine-mercy-chaplet/"><em>divine mercy</em></a><em>, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defence of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded … For Mother Teresa, mercy was the “salt” which gave flavour to her work, it was the “light” which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their poverty and suffering.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Today, Mother Teresa is an emblem of charity worldwide, though her spiritual journey reminds us that the road to holiness is never easy.<br><br><strong><em>Learn more about Mother Teresa in Hallow’s Saints in 7 Days series, meditating on her spiritual and charitable life.&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/Y6VTZ1XeKCb">Saints in 7 Days: Mother Teresa</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-emergency-flying-novena">Emergency “Flying” Novena</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">To pray a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-novenas/">novena</a> typically means to pray with one intention for nine days. But the Missionaries of Charity often faced problems in which the petitions couldn’t wait nine days, which led to the <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/how-to-pray-mother-teresa-s-famous-flying-novena-to-our-lady">origin</a> of Mother Teresa’s “emergency” or “flying” novena. 10 Memorares (a prayer invoking Mary’s intercession) make up the Emergency Novena. Pray this novena anytime you need Our Lady’s “quick” intercession – guiding us to share what’s on our hearts with Jesus.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Mother Teresa used this prayer constantly: for petitions for the cure of a sick child, before important discussions or when passports went missing, to request heavenly aid when the fuel supply was running short on a night-time mission and the destination was still far away in the darkness.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Msgr. 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Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother. To thee I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.”</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1693591776501"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Repeat the Memorare 9 more times.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1693591780662"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Close with the Sign of the Cross.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the <a href="https://hallow.com/2022/09/14/prayer-to-the-holy-spirit-and-other-holy-spirit-prayers/">Holy Spirit</a>, Amen.</p> </li></ol></div> <!-- /wp:yoast/how-to-block --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/Y6VTZ1XeKCb">Pray the Emergency Novena on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-i-thirst-meditation">“I Thirst” Meditation</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mother Teresa wrote this beautiful meditation inspired by her “call within a call” from Jesus.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Jesus says:&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I thirst for you.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>It is true. I stand at the door of your heart, day and night. Even when you are not listening, even when you doubt it could be Me, I am there: waiting for even the smallest signal of your response, even the smallest suggestion of an invitation that will permit Me to enter…</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I know you like the palm of my hand. I know everything about you. Even the hairs of your head I have counted. Nothing in your life is unimportant to Me. I have followed you through the years and I have always loved you even when you have strayed. I know every one of your problems. I know your needs and your worries and yes, I know all your sins.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>But I tell you again that I love you, not for what you have or ceased to do, I love you for you, for the beauty and the dignity My Father gave you by creating you in His own image. It is a dignity you have often forgotten, a beauty you have tarnished by sin. But I love you as you are, and I have shed My Blood to rescue you. If you only ask Me with faith, My grace will touch all that needs changing in your life: I will give you the strength to free yourself from sin and from all its destructive power.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>I know what is in your heart, I know your loneliness and all your wounds, the rejections, the judgments, the humiliations, I carried it all before you. And I carried it all for you, so you could share My strength and My victory. I know, above all, your need for love, how much you are thirsting for love and tenderness.&nbsp; Yet, how many times have you desired to satisfy your thirst in vain, seeking that love with selfishness, trying to fill the void within you with passing pleasures, with the even greater emptiness of sin.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Do you thirst for love?</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Come to Me all you who thirst …” I will satisfy you and fill you.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Read the full meditation <a href="https://avemariaradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jesus-I-Thirst.pdf">here</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-do-it-anyway-poem-prayer">“Do it Anyway” Poem-Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This poem-payer was found on a wall inside Mother Teresa’s home in Calcutta.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. </em><strong><em>Forgive them anyway.&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. </em><strong><em>Be kind anyway.&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. </em><strong><em>Succeed anyway.&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. </em><strong><em>Be honest and sincere anyway.</em></strong><em>&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. </em><strong><em>Create anyway.&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. </em><strong><em>Be happy anyway.</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>The good you do today will often be forgotten. </em><strong><em>Do good anyway.&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. </em><strong><em>Give your best anyway.</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/Y6VTZ1XeKCb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-mother-teresa-famous-quotes">Mother Teresa Famous Quotes</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mother Teresa did not speak in a particularly complicated way nor with academic language throughout her life. Rather, she spoke simply from her heart on life’s most important matters – namely faith, kindness, love, and peace. Thus, much of her legacy is recorded and shared daily through famous quips and quotes that have been translated and shared with millions worldwide. Here are a few of our favorite quotes from St. Teresa of Calcutta:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="faith-quotes">On faith</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Prayer in action is love; love in action is service.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="kindness-quotes">On kindness</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Perhaps I don’t speak their language, but I can smile.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="love-quotes">On love</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“It is not about how much you do but how love you put into what you do that counts.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="peace-quotes">On peace</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Peace begins with a smile.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Get inspired every day with Hallow’s Daily Quote in your inbox – sign up </em></strong><a href="https://hallow.com/daily-quote"><strong><em>here</em></strong></a><strong><em>!</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/Y6VTZ1XeKCb">Download the Hallow App</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-related-saints-and-prayers">Related saints and prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">Catholic Patron Saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-catherine-of-siena-feast-prayers-quotes-feast-day/">St. Catherine of Siena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-rita-novena/">St. Rita Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => St. Teresa of Calcutta “Mother Teresa” - Feast Day, Quotes, Emergency “Flying” Novena [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => mother-teresa-prayers-emergency-novena [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-09-01 18:14:49 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-09-01 18:14:49 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=40778 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 40528 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-08-25 17:50:20 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-08-25 17:50:20 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Ten Commandments: Table of Contents</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"className":""} --> <ol class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#listed-in-order">Intro and List of 10 Commandments in Order</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#bible">10 Commandments in the Bible (Exodus, Deuteronomy)</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#jesus">Jesus and the 10 Commandments</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#popes">The Popes and Understanding the 10 Commandments</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#loving-words">The 10 Commandments as Loving Words</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#prayer">10 Commandments and Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="listed-in-order">The Ten Commandments: Listed in Order</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Ten Commandments are as famous as they are powerful:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"className":""} --> <ol class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>I am the LORD your God; you shall not have strange gods before me.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Remember to keep holy the LORD's Day.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Honor your father and mother.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>You shall not kill.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>You shall not commit adultery.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>You shall not steal.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>You shall not covet your neighbor's goods. <em>(</em><a href="http://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/498/"><em>via Catechism of the Catholic Church</em></a><em>)</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Even someone who has never opened a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/bible-study-guide-for-beginners/">Bible</a> has undoubtedly heard the phrase and could probably identify “Thou shall not kill” or “Thou shall not steal” as examples of some of the teachings.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The format–10 clear, simple directives–has proven so popular that we see its structure repeated constantly in everything from the <a href="https://www.ucf.edu/news/10-commandments-of-teaching/">10 commandments of teaching</a> and the <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/The-10-commandments-of-a-good-leader-15953113.php">10 commandments of leadership</a> to even something as trivial as the 10 commandments of <a href="https://www.thekavanaughreport.com/2010/09/ten-commandments-of-baseball-watching.html">baseball-watching etiquette</a>!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">To fully appreciate how important the Ten Commandments are to our prayer lives today, it’s best to fully appreciate them in their full historical context.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/tencommandments">Explore the Bible and Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="bible">Ten Commandments in the Bible&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"lent-embed"} --> <p class="lent-embed">We receive the Ten Commandments, sometimes called the Decalogue (“ten words” in Greek), in Exodus 20, when Moses ascended up Mt. Sinai to meet God, who “descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.” (Exodus 19: 18)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Revised Standard Version of the Bible lays out the Ten Commandments as follows:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>1&nbsp; Then God spoke all these words:</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>2&nbsp; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods before me.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>4&nbsp; You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, 6 but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>7&nbsp; You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>8&nbsp; Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 10 But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>12&nbsp; Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>13&nbsp; You shall not murder.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>14&nbsp; You shall not commit adultery.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>15&nbsp; You shall not steal.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>16&nbsp; You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>17&nbsp; You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>18&nbsp; When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance, 19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die.” 20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin.” 21 Then the people stood at a distance, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">So important were the Ten Commandments to the early understanding of natural law that Moses <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+5&amp;version=RSV">repeated them again in Deuteronomy</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But it’s not until the New Testament that we entirely grasp the Ten Commandments.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="jesus">Jesus and the Ten Commandments</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As important as the Ten Commandments were in the Old Testament, we can’t fully appreciate their meaning without understanding them in relation to Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As the Catechism tells us, "Beginning with the Old Testament, the sacred books refer to the ‘ten words,’ but it is in the New Covenant in Jesus Christ that their full meaning will be revealed.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Being a follower of Jesus means following, not forgetting, the commandments,.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“The Law has not been abolished (Mt 5:17),” the Catechism teaches us, “but rather, man is invited to rediscover it in the person of his Master who is its perfect fulfillment.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The first three Commandments refer to love of God; the next seven, love of neighbor. When Jesus is challenged by the Pharisees in Matthew 22, he summarizes the Ten Commandments into two concise directives.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">These two instructions, sometimes called the Greatest Commandments, complement each other and beckon us to allow our love for God to move us to do His will and be His hands and feet here on earth.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“The love of God always comes first,” <a href="https://aleteia.org/2017/10/28/jesus-summed-up-the-10-commandments-with-these-two-statements/">writes Brother Silas Henderson, SDS</a>. “Our response to that love should take us outside of ourselves as we are asked to share with others the love and compassion that we have received from God.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">To understand the connection between the Ten Commandments and Jesus is to recognize God at work in humanity across thousands of years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Ten Commandments continue to be relevant, and popes through the years have helped guide us through a contemporary understanding of them.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="popes">The Ten Commandments and Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Various popes throughout history have helped us give us new lenses through which to understand the 10 instructions given to us so long ago.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 1944, Pope Pius XII beautifully <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/it/speeches/1944/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19440223_inscrutabile-consiglio.html">spoke about</a> the Ten Commandments, describing them as steps for Christians to climb, to draw closer to Christ and elevate man above the moral abyss, challenging us to “ contribute to making men fit to receive this salvation, leading them to the mountain of the Lord.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/john-paul-ii/">Pope John Paul II</a> <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/travels/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20000226_sinai.html">beautifully described</a> the Ten Commandments as “ written in stone; but before that, they were written on the human heart as the universal moral law, valid in every time and place.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Describing the Commandments as signs from God that help us understand good from evil, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/messages/pont-messages/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20120908_10piazze-10comandamenti.html">Pope Benedict XVI said</a>, “when man ignores the Commandments in his life, not only does he alienate himself from God and abandon the alliance with him but he also distances himself from life and lasting happiness.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The 10 Commandments also were something that captivated <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">St. Augustine</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/exodus/questions-on-exodus-by-augustine-of-hippo">who wrote about them in great detail</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis’s message around the Ten Commandments might be the most graceful of all.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="loving-words">The Ten Commandments as Loving Words</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">So how are we to understand the Ten Commandments in our modern world, which feels so far from Mt. Sinai?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In a 2018 general audience address, Pope Francis addressed the Ten Commandments and explored the etymology of the Decalogue (“ten words”) term, characterizing the Ten Commandments as “<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/francis-comic-strip/francis-chronicles/pope-commandments-are-gods-loving-words-not">loving words, not oppressive commands</a>.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“A command is a communication that does not require dialogue. A word, instead, is the essential medium of <em>relationship as a dialogue</em>,” <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2018/documents/papa-francesco_20180620_udienza-generale.html">Pope Francis said</a>. “When someone speaks to our heart, our loneliness is over. It receives a word; there is communication, and the commandments are God’s words: God communicates through these ten Words, and he awaits our response.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis recognizes the Ten Commandments as a way to draw closer to God through dialogue–to allow our hearts to receive his words.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="prayer">Ten Commandments and Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">How are God’s words reaching your heart?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">When we spend time with Scripture, through programs like <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/bible-in-a-year-with-father-mike-schmitz/">Bible in a Year</a>, we create a time and medium for God’s words to mold our hearts. <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-lectio-divina/">Lectio Divina</a> is another great way to let God’s words begin a dialogue within us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Build a habit of <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/daily-prayer-prayers-for-today/">daily prayer</a> and listen to God’s word. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 40059 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2023-08-16 13:33:00 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-08-16 13:33:00 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow, the No. 1 Christian prayer app, today announced a partnership with Benedictine College to provide the college community with premium prayer content to help deepen their spiritual lives.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Through the new partnership, current Benedictine College students, faculty and staff will receive free premium access to Hallow and its wide-ranging audio library of Catholic faith-based meditations and prayers.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“We’re incredibly humbled to be able to partner with one of the leading Catholic colleges in America to help share the power of prayer and the Church’s spirituality with the Benedictine community,” said Alessandro DiSanto, Hallow co-founder and head of schools.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Benedictine College students, faculty and staff now have free access to Hallow’s premium subscription service and its selection of over 10,000 audio-guided prayers and meditations, including:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Daily prayer content, including the daily Mass reading, the Rosary, daily Examens, and the Divine Mercy Chaplet;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mini-courses of specific faith topics, including The Science of Happiness by Harvard Business School professor Dr. Arthur Brooks, Spiritual Warfare by exorcist Fr. Vincent Lampert, and A Biblical Walk Through the Mass by Dr. Edward Sri.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Meditations and reflections on overcoming common emotional wounds by Sr. Miriam James Heidland and Dr. Bob Schuchts of the John Paul II Healing Center;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Sessions on understanding and overcoming stress and anxiety with Regina Boyd, LMHC, founder of Boyd Counseling Services;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Prayers and Bible Stories geared toward finding peace before going to sleep, led by familiar voices such as Mario Lopez, Mark Wahlberg, Sarah Swafford, Fr. Mike Schmitz, and Emily Wilson.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“College Ministry is excited for Benedictine’s partnership with Hallow,” said Megan Ryan, director of the school’s College Ministry program. “The Hallow App will lead our students, faculty, and staff to deepen their encounters with Christ in their daily prayer life. It will be another great resource to transform lives in Christ on campus.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About Hallow</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow helps people deepen their relationship with God through audio-guided prayers, sleep meditations, Bible readings, meditations and music. The app has over 3,000 sessions including a daily Rosary, daily Gospel, daily saint, novenas, examens, Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year, The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie’s audio Bible, Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons, peaceful Christian music, Gregorian chant and so much more. Launched in December 2018, Hallow is now the number one Catholic app in the world with over 40 million prayers completed across 150-plus countries.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About Benedictine College</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Founded in 1858, <a href="https://www.benedictine.edu/">Benedictine College</a> is a Catholic, Benedictine, residential, liberal arts college located on the bluffs above the Missouri River in Atchison, Kansas. The school is honored to have been named one of America’s Best Colleges by <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report, </em>the best private college in Kansas by<em> The Wall Street Journal</em>, and one of the top Catholic colleges in the nation by <em>First Things</em> magazine and the Newman Guide. It prides itself on outstanding academics, extraordinary faith life, strong athletic programs, and an exceptional sense of community and belonging. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 39933 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-08-11 22:07:09 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-08-11 22:07:09 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Feast of the Assumption: Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Introduction</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#definition">What is the Assumption?</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#bible">Assumption in the Bible</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#history">History of the Assumption</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#mass-readings">Mass Readings</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#celebrations">Celebrations</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#prayers">Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mary occupies a prominent place in the liturgical calendar of the Church, from the beginning of the year (January 1–<a href="https://hallow.com/blog/solemnity-of-mary-mother-of-god/">Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God</a>) through December (the 8th–Solemnity of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-immaculate-conception-church-teaching-prayers/">Immaculate Conception</a>).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As the calendar pages turn toward the final third of the year, Mary again plays a vital role in the liturgical life of the Church through the Feast of the Assumption.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The formal dogma regarding the Assumption is less than 100 years old, but its tradition dates back to the time of Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn more about why the Feast of the Assumption matters both to the universal Church and your own personal prayer life.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="definition">What is the Assumption?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Assumption refers to Mary, “free from the taint of original sin,” being assumed (taken up) into heaven, body and soul, at the end of her life. The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on August 15 each year, celebrates this Church teaching.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="bible">The Assumption in the Bible</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Although there is no explicit mention in the Bible about the end of Mary’s life, there are many references to her special place in the Incarnation and the history of salvation.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The New Testament tells us that Mary is the “favored one” (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1%3A26-28&amp;version=NABRE">Luke 1:28</a>), which other translations describe as “full of grace.” Later in Luke, we learn that Mary is “most blessed” among women.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+66&amp;version=NABRE">Isaiah 66:7-8</a> foretold her special role in the Church, not only giving birth to Jesus but doing so without traditional labor pains that existed in humanity since Eve:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Before she is in labor, she gives birth; Before her pangs come upon her, she delivers a male child. Who ever heard of such a thing, or who ever saw the like? Can a land be brought forth in one day, or a nation be born in a single moment?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Mary being most blessed, full of grace and without labor pains pave the way for the unprecedented way in which the Assumption makes clear that Mary left the earth.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/assumption">Download Hallow and Pray Today</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="history">History of the Assumption</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Since the Assumption is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible, it’s important to recognize the importance of both scripture and tradition in the Catholic Church.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Catechism <a href="https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/">tells us</a> "Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing and move towards the same goal."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Father Clifford Stevens <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/assumption-of-mary-a-belief-since-apostolic-times-934">points out</a> that the belief that Mary was taken up into heaven dates back “to the apostles” since there is no evidence of any relics of Mary, and her tomb was empty.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the dogma on the Assumption in “<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-xii_apc_19501101_munificentissimus-deus.html">Munificentissimus Deus</a>”:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Hence the revered Mother of God, from all eternity joined in a hidden way with Jesus Christ in one and the same decree of predestination, immaculate in her conception, a most perfect virgin in her divine motherhood, the noble associate of the divine Redeemer who has won a complete triumph over sin and its consequences, finally obtained, as the supreme culmination of her privileges, that she should be preserved free from the corruption of the tomb and that, like her own Son, having overcome death, she might be taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven where, as Queen, she sits in splendor at the right hand of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Pope Pius XII - Munificentissimus Deus</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="mass-readings">Feast of the Assumption - Mass Readings</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Mass readings for the Assumption are consistent every year regardless of the liturgical year (A, B or C.)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The first reading is a section of Revelation that <a href="https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/is-mary-the-woman-in-revelation-12">many people believe</a> refers to Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The responsorial psalm is also Marian-inspired: “The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Following a reading from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor 15:20-27), the Gospel passage is from Luke (1:39-46), which includes Mary’s Magnificat.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The liturgy likely will feature Marian-themed hymns, such as:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Ave Maria</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Magnificat</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="celebrations">Celebrations of Feast of the Assumption</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Assumption is a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-days-of-obligation/">Holy Day of Obligation</a>. The Feast of the Assumption is technically a solemnity: the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It takes place on August 15 each year, and communities around the world celebrate it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Processions are one of the most common ways that parishes observe the Assumption. Churches around the world will carry a statue of Mary and process through the neighborhood.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Attending Mass, which is an obligation, will allow you to enjoy another hallmark of celebrating the Assumption.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Another popular way to celebrate the Assumption is by planting a Mary garden–a place where flowers are planted in Mary’s honor.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prayers-for-the-feast-of-the-assumption">Prayers for the Feast of the Assumption</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Assumption represents a tremendous opportunity to draw closer to God through Mary’s intercession and example.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s also a great time to recalibrate your prayer life ahead of what is, for many, a time of transition: seasons begin to change, vacations begin and end, school years get underway.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Prayers for the Feast of the Assumption can be as simple as the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary</a> or <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">Rosary</a>. The Assumption, like other Marian feast days, is a popular day to begin a novena, such as the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-54-day-novena/">54 Day Novena</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This prayer from Pope Paul VI is also a beautiful homage to Mary on the feast of the Assumption:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>O Immaculate Mary, Assumed into heaven, you who are most blessed in the vision of God: of God the Father who exalted you among all creatures, of God the Son who willed that you bear Him as your Son and that you should be His Mother, of God the Holy Spirit who accomplished the human conception of the Savior in you. O Mary, most pure O Mary, most sweet and beautiful O Mary, strong and thoughtful woman O Mary, poor and sorrowful O Mary, virgin and mother woman very human like Eve, more than Eve. You are near to God by your grace and by your privileges in your mysteries in your mission, in your glory. O Mary, assumed into the glory of Christ in the complete and transfigured perfection of our human nature. O Mary, gate of heaven mirror of divine light ark of the Covenant between God and mankind, let our souls fly after you let them fly long your radiant path, transported by a hope that the world does not contain eternal beatitude. Comfort us from heaven, O merciful Mother, and guide us along your ways of purity and hope till the day of that blessed meeting with you and with your divine Son our Savior, Jesus. Amen!</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Saint Paul VI</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You can also try these short prayers:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Heavenly mother, filled with God’s grace, pray for us today and all days, that we may strive to trusting, patient and faithful, as you were, so that we may one day join you and all saints in heaven. In Jesus’s name we pray. Amen.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Immaculate Mary, assumed into heaven, teach us to trust in God’s plan the way you did. Do not let us fear obstacles or uncertainties. Inspire us and pray for us today, as we celebrate your Assumption. Amen.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow makes it easy to pray on the Feast of the Assumption and every day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/assumption">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/mary-magdalene/">Mary Magdalene Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-novenas/">How to Pray a Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/morning-prayer/">Morning Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/daily-prayer-prayers-for-today/">Daily Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-healing/">Prayers for Healing</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Feast of the Assumption: History, Celebrations, Mass Readings and Prayers [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => feast-of-the-assumption [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-08-11 22:07:17 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-08-11 22:07:17 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=39933 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 39478 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2023-07-28 17:29:21 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-07-28 17:29:21 [post_content] => <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Back to School Prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Table of Contents</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#teacher-orientation">Prayers for Teacher Orientation</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#returning-to-school">Prayers for Teachers Returning to School</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#first-day-of-school">Prayers for First Day of School</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#saints">Back to School Prayers with Saints</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#daily">Daily Prayer for Teachers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#resources">More Teacher Prayer Resources</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Teachers and school administrators put in a tremendous amount of time and effort to plan for the return of the school year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">With all of the planning, organization, and preparation, it can be a busy time even for the most experienced educators.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Let Hallow help check off one item on your checklist with these short back to school prayers for teachers getting ready for another school year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Enjoy these prayers for a new school year and learn how Hallow supports teachers 12 months a year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.com/hallow-for-educators/">Learn More: Hallow for Educators</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="teacher-orientation">Prayers for Teacher Orientation&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Catholic schools normally include prayer in teacher orientation. Here are some simple Catholic prayers to kick off orientation grounded in prayer:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Heavenly Father, as we gather together to prepare for this new academic year, we ask for your blessing on all of us. May Your Spirit set our hearts ablaze with love of You–love that we can share with our students, their families and each other. Bless our planning and be with us each day.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Bless us with your wisdom, O God, as we chart out the course for the upcoming school year. May our orientation today be fruitful in our efforts to mold young people in faith, competence, conscience and compassion.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Lord, Your Spirit is transformative. May it inspire us today as we gather together as teachers, certainly, but as Christians as well, striving to do Your will. Embolden us to live our faith each day, in all of our interactions with students. Grant us open minds and hearts to observe the way You call us to act.&nbsp; Renew our strength, that we may persevere through obstacles that we will surely encounter. Bless all of our teachers, administrators, support staff and all of our families. In Your name we pray.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="returning-to-school">Prayers for Teachers Returning to School&nbsp;</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The final few days before orientation and the first day of school can be quite a blur. The transition from summer to school year is never perfectly smooth!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are short prayers for teachers who are in the midst of returning to the classroom after a much-deserved summer break.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Instill in us (me), dear God, patience as we (I) begin our first day of school. Patience with our (my) students, who are beginning a new grade. It’s hard growing up in today’s modern world. Help us (me) to give them the benefit of doubt and be kind even when we (I) could rightfully be angry. We (I) ask for patience too for ourselves (myself)--for adjusting back into the routine of the school year, for wearing so many different hats, with so many things needing to get done. Your work is done slowly and in ways we (I) often don’t recognize. Bless us (me) today, help us (me) remember today is the first day of many and that You’ll be with us (me) each step of the way.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Father, strengthen my faith in You this school year. My faith in You gives me peace–a peace that allows me to look past my own personal challenges during the school day and give fully to my students and their many needs. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Soon, O Lord, a new school year will begin and I will once again encounter moments where I feel like there is more being asked of me than I can provide. In these instances, help me to pause, breathe deeply, and feel Your loving arms embracing me and supporting me. With You, no challenge is too big. In Jesus’s name I pray. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Father, Pope Francis <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253305/this-is-pope-francis-prayer-intention-for-the-month-of-january">reminds us</a> that “Education is an act of love that illuminates the path for us to recover a sense of fraternity, so we will not ignore those who are most vulnerable.” This school year, may I be an instrument of your fraternity-building here on earth. And may I always be mindful of the most vulnerable among us, in whatever form that vulnerability takes. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="first-day-of-school">Prayers for the First Day of School</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Seat assignments. Introductions. Syllabi.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">With all the other things on your To Do list, a first day of school prayer doesn’t have to be hard or complex. Invite God into your Day 1 with one of these simple prayers:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Through the intercession of <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-st-michael-chaplet/">St. Michael the Archangel</a>, I pray that You protect and guide our myself and my fellow teachers this year, as well as all of our students and their families. Keep them safe and healthy and protect them from all evil. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“May Your Spirit ignite the young hearts that fill this classroom. May Your Spirit inspire the minds that will gather here. May we all hunger and thirst to know You better. May we learn from each other and be open each day to better understand how You call us to follow You. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Heavenly Father, I ask for Your peace as my students and I embark on this journey. Today, as we take the first small step on the road of the new academic year, remind us of Jesus’s call for us to wash each other’s feet. As we grow together on this path, may we cast aside our pride and open our hearts and minds to you. May we seek ways to uplift each other. May we build Your kingdom together. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="saints">Back to School Prayers with Saints</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On the first day of school, consider asking for the intercession of your school’s <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">patron</a>. <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/">Saints</a> like <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/ignatius-loyola/">Ignatius of Loyola</a> and <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">Augustine</a> have many schools that consider them their patrons. As you begin your first day, invoke your school’s patron saint as you reflect on the upcoming school year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You can also consider turning to saints closely associated with the teaching profession, such as:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. Thomas Aquinas</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. John Baptist De La Salle</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. John Bosco</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. Cassian of Imola</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/elizabeth-ann-seton/">St. Elizabeth Ann Seton</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="daily">Daily Prayer for Teachers – All Year Long</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow helps teachers find peace through prayer throughout the entire school year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn more about <a href="https://hallow.com/hallow-for-educators/">Hallow for Teachers</a> or <a href="mailto:schools@hallow.app">drop us a line</a> with any questions.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/backtoschoolprayers">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="resources">More Prayer Resources for Teachers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/morning-prayer/">Morning Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/daily-prayer-prayers-for-today/">Daily Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-54-day-novena/">54 Day Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-strength/">Prayers for Strength&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/catholic-schools-week/">Catholic Schools Week</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-teachers/">Bible Verses for Teachers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-college-students/">Bible Verses for College Students</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Back to School Prayers for Teachers: Prayers for Returning to School, Teacher Orientation and First Day of Class [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => back-to-school-prayers-for-teachers [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-05-16 16:15:18 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-05-16 16:15:18 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=39478 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 39365 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2023-07-25 20:49:10 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-07-25 20:49:10 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Rita of Cascia (1381-1457) is a patron saint of the impossible, difficult, and hopeless causes, distinctly in the realm of marriage, abuse, fertility, parenthood, and disease. Like <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude</a>, many turn to St. Rita for her intercession in times of desperation, heartbreak, and disease.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Rita well interpreted the “feminine genius” by living it intensely in both physical and spiritual motherhood.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>St. Pope John Paul II&nbsp;</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We celebrate the Feast of St. Rita on May 22, though people turn to this saint throughout the year with the Novena to St. Rita (see below). St. Rita is often pictured among roses and bees for the miraculous events of her life.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#st-rita-life">Life of St. Rita of Cascia</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#early-life">Early life</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#religious-life">Religious life</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#rose-canonization-bees">Rose, canonization, and bees</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#centenary-jpII">Centenary - St. Pope John Paul II</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#how-to-pray-st-rita-novena">How to Pray the St. Rita Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#st-rita-prayer">St. Rita Prayer for Impossible Cases and Special Needs</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#more-novenas">More Novenas</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="st-rita-life">Life of St. Rita of Cascia</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="early-life">Early life</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Many events in her life led St. Rita of Cascia to be called both a saint of the impossible and the “disciple of the Crucified One.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Born Margherita (Rita) Lotti in Roccaporena, Italy, St. Rita experienced a miracle just a few days after her birth. The day after Rita was baptized, honeybees swarmed her, flying in and out of her mouth without harm. Her family saw this occasion as a sign of blessing and devotion to God.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In her youth, Rita desired to enter the convent, though she was forced into an arranged marriage with a “violent and ill-tempered” man at the age of 12 (<a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-rita-of-cascia-464#:~:text=and%20spiritual%20motherhood.%E2%80%9D-,St.,sick%2C%20bodily%20ills%20and%20wounds.">Catholic News Agency</a>). Together they had twin sons, and 18 years after they were married, her husband was murdered. Her sons then passed at a young age, and she again desired to enter the <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">Augustinian</a> convent of <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/mary-magdalene/">St. Mary Magdalene</a> in Cascia, Italy. For this reason, she is the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/patron-saints/">patron saint</a> of difficult marriages.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="religious-life">Religious life</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Rita eventually entered the Augustinian convent after <a href="https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=205">appealing</a> to St. John the Baptist, <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">St. Augustine of Hippo</a>, and Nicholas of Tolentino. Some legends hold that “she was transported into the monastery of Saint Magdalene through levitation at night by the three patron saints she appealed to” (<a href="https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=205">Catholic.org</a>).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">During <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-week-schedule/">Holy Week</a> in 1442, St. Rita of Cascia <a href="https://www.saintritashrine.org/saint-rita-of-cascia">received</a> the stigmata (a bodily wound resembling a wound of Christ).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>In contemplation before an image of Jesus that was very dear to her, the Jesus of Holy Saturday or, as it is also known, the Resurgent Christ, she was moved by a deeper awareness of the physical and spiritual burden of pain which Christ so freely and willingly embraced for love of her and of all humanity. [...] Rita was united with Jesus in a profound experience of spiritual intimacy, a thorn from his crown penetrating her forehead. The wound it caused remained open and visible until the day of her death.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia&nbsp;</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Other saints who have received the stigmata include St. Francis of Assisi, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-catherine-of-siena-feast-prayers-quotes-feast-day/">St. Catherine of Siena</a>, and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/padre-pio-prayers-feast-day/">St. Padre Pio</a>, to name a few.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="rose-canonization-bees">Rose, canonization, and bees</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Rita of Cascia was ill for the final four years of her life and died from tuberculosis in 1456. She lived to be 70 years old.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the last winter of her life, one of Rita’s cousins came to visit her at the convent and inquired if Rita desired anything. Rita <a href="https://aleteia.org/2021/01/15/traces-of-miracles-remain-at-the-birthplace-of-st-rita-of-cascia/">asked</a> her cousin to bring back two figs and a rose from her father’s garden despite it being the middle of winter in Italy. Her cousin miraculously found one rose and two figs and returned to the convent. For this reason, St. Rita is often pictured with roses in art and churches around the world.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While her stigmata wound smelled poorly during her life, it smelled sweet and pleasant after her death; this is one of the miracles that led to her beatification in 1626 by Pope Urban VIII. Additionally, a colony of bees appeared in the cell walls monastery where she lived many decades after her death. Some people have reported that the bees exit the walls during Holy Week and return to the monastery on St. Rita’s feast day (May 22) each year.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Rita’s body remains incorrupt, venerated at the Basilica of Santa Rita da Cascia in Cascia, Italy. She was canonized in 1900 by Pope Leo XIII.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="centenary-jpII">Centenary - St. Pope John Paul II</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On the centenary of her canonization, St. Pope John Paul II <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/2000/apr-jun/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20000520_santa-rita.html">called</a> us to consider the message of St. Rita of Cascia: to live humbly and conform our lives to Christ.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“But what is the message that this saint passes on to us? It is a message that flows from her life: </em><strong><em>humility and obedience were the path that Rita took to be ever more perfectly conformed to the Crucified One.</em></strong><em> The mark which shines on her forehead is the verification of her Christian maturity. On the Cross with Jesus, she is crowned in a certain way with the love that she knew and heroically expressed within her home and by her participation in the events of her town.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>St. Pope John Paul II</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He also encouraged us to consider the rose of St. Rita’s last winter as a symbol for living life attuned to Christ:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>It is to be hoped that the life of everyone devoted to her will be like the rose picked in the garden of Roccaporena the winter before the saint's death. That is, let it be a life sustained by passionate love for the Lord Jesus; a life capable of responding to suffering and to thorns with forgiveness and the total gift of self, in order to spread everywhere the good odour of Christ (cf. 2 Cor 2:15) through a consistently lived proclamation of the Gospel.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><em>St. Pope John Paul II</em></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/MWySFk8lJBb">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-to-pray-st-rita-novena">How to Pray the St. Rita Novena</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:yoast/how-to-block {"hasDuration":true,"minutes":"5","jsonDescription":"Many turn to St. Rita for her intercession — her guidance to help us turn to God — in times of desperation, heartbreak, and disease.","steps":[{"id":"how-to-step-1690316566593","name":["Take a moment to quiet your mind and rest in His peace."],"text":["Imagine yourself among blooming, fragrant roses in honor of St. Rita. "],"jsonName":"Take a moment to quiet your mind and rest in His peace.","jsonText":"Imagine yourself among blooming, fragrant roses in honor of St. Rita. "},{"id":"how-to-step-1690316609127","name":["Begin by making the Sign of the Cross."],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the "]}},{"type":"a","props":{"href":"https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/","children":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["Holy Spirit"]}}]}},{"type":"em","props":{"children":[", Amen."]}}],"jsonName":"Begin by making the Sign of the Cross.","jsonText":"\u003cem\u003eIn the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the \u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\u0022https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-to-the-holy-spirit/\u0022\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoly Spirit\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Amen.\u003c/em\u003e"},{"id":"how-to-step-1690316616190","name":["Pray the St. Rita Novena prayer."],"text":[{"type":"em","props":{"children":["“O God, in your infinite tenderness you have been pleased to regard the prayer of your servant Rita, and to grant to her supplication that which is impossible to human foresight, skill, and effort, as rewards for her compassionate love and firm reliance on your promises. 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Have pity on us in times of adversities and comfort us in our calamities, that even the unbelievers may know that you are the recompense of the humble, the defense of the helpless, and the strength of those who trust in you. Grant this in the Name of Jesus the Lord.” (Source: </em><a href="https://novenaprayer.com/saint-rita-novena/"><em>novenaprayer.com</em></a><em>)</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316620784"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a>.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done,  on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316624584"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Pray the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary</a>.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316628293"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Pray the Glory Be.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text"><em>Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end</em></p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316631052"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Recall your intercessory intentions.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">Give all of your prayers to Him and ask St. Rita again to guide you in doing so. </p> </li><li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1690316638398"><strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Conclude with the Sign of the Cross.</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.</p> </li></ol></div> <!-- /wp:yoast/how-to-block --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="st-rita-prayer">St. Rita Prayer for Impossible Cases</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“O Holy Patroness of those in need, St. Rita, whose pleadings before thy Divine Lord are almost irresistible, who for thy lavishness in granting favors hast been called the Advocate of the Hopeless and even of the Impossible; St. Rita, so humble, so pure, so mortified, so patient and of such compassionate love for thy Crucified Jesus that thou couldst obtain from Him whatsoever thou askest, on account of which all confidently have recourse to thee expecting, if not always relief, at least comfort; be propitious to our petition, showing thy power with God on behalf of thy suppliant; be lavish to us, as thou hast been in so many wonderful cases, for the greater glory of God, for the spreading of thine own devotion, and for the consolation of those who trust in thee.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>We promise, if our petition is granted, to glorify thee by making known thy favor, to bless and sing thy praises forever. Relying then upon thy merits and power before the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we pray thee grant that [here mention your petition]. Pray for us, O holy St. Rita, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Source: <a href="https://aleteia.org/2018/05/22/these-astonishing-miracles-led-to-st-ritas-canonization/">Aleteia</a>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/MWySFk8lJBb">Pray Novenas on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="more-novenas">More Novenas</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">Surrender Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-joseph-worker-novena/">St. Joseph the Worker Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => St. Rita Novena - Who is St. Rita of Cascia? 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