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Happy Sunday Artwork: William-Adolphe Bouguereau

VIDEO: Meet Margaret Gallagher, a 77-year-old Fermanagh woman who lives happily in a 280-year-old cottage with no running water, electricity, phone or internet Read more: https://www.irishtimes.com//off-the-grid-but-still-plugged

Today our Queen is simply a woman who has lost her beloved husband of 73 years. I can’t begin to imagine that kind of grief. May she know the gentle comfort and deep peace of God today.

Pope Francis: Defending fundamental human rights requires courage and determination. I am referring to the active struggle against poverty, inequality, lack of ...work, land and housing, and the denial of social and labor rights. Video of the Pope. Apostleship of Prayer. Prayer intentions for April, 2021. See more

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. ~ Jim Bishop ~ Image by Dirk Wuestenhagen

'Be still and know that I am God' Psalm 46: 10 Renew me this night in the image of your love renew me in the likeness of your mercy, O God.... May any refusal to forgive that lingers with me from the day any bitterness of soul that hardens my heart be softened by your graces of the night. Renew me in the image of your love, O God, renew me in the likeness of your mercy. ~ John Philip Newell See more

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In prayer we place our worries and petitions in the hands of God, and we trust that He will listen, for He knows what we need and will give us what is good for us. Pope Francis Photo credit: Fr. Francis Galvan

There is power in prayer. When you pray, God listens. When you pray, storms get stilled. When you pray, doors open. When you pray, relationships get restored.... When you pray, sicknesses get healed. When you pray, hope gets rekindled. When you pray, strength is renewed. When you pray, answers come. Don’t lose faith about what you are praying for today. God is faithful. His answer will come at just the right time. -Anna Bachinsky

"to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal;... to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go... Mary Oliver Charles Rennie Mackintosh - In Fairyland.

What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.. ~ Corrie Ten Boom