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Do you ever wonder if you're praying "right?" This meditation is for you. 

By Marc Massery

Turn to any page of St. Faustina’s Diary, and you’ll find spiritual gems. Like this one:

Write, My daughter, that I am mercy itself for the contrite soul. A soul’s greatest wretchedness does not enkindle Me with wrath; but rather, My Heart is moved towards it with great mercy (Diary, 1739).

It happens every now and then. A terrible tragedy makes headlines, like a school shooting, and we can hardly bear to read the details. 

Doctors said that if they didn’t start operating in the next 20 minutes he would likely die within the next few hours . . . 

By Marc Massery

On Mother’s Day in 1996, Bette Harrison received word that her younger brother Ricky had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at age 46. 

“Truly, in that moment, I felt as though I had been stabbed by a sword and went down on my knees,” she said. As a Catholic convert from Judaism, Bette, of Irvine, California, worried about her brother’s salvation. He died without any faith. 

"Today we have come to ponder fatherhood and all it means to each of us," said Br. John Luth, MIC.