Category: Author’s Blog

Pope Francis has proclaimed a “Year of Saint Joseph” beginning today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, December 8, 2020, to December 8, 2021. With the Apostolic Letter Patris corde (“With a Father’s Heart”) published today, Pope Francis connects our current need for Saint Joseph in our Church to the 150th anniversary of the declaration of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. This is more significant than we yet realize! Saint Teresa of Avila and other saints said that Saint Joseph would arise to great importance in the world in the final days. He is the patron saint of the final days and patron saint of fatherhood. At the conclusion of his Letter, Pope Francis gives us a new prayer to St Joseph, which he encourages all of us to pray together: Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God […] Read More

Here’s a song that will bless you. I’m sharing “The Father’s House” with you to give you something special on your journey deeper into the the Father’s heart. Please keep me in prayer as I try to find time to write the final two chapters of the book. Praise the Lord, last week four chapters were completed because I went away on a writer’s retreat! My dad is still clinging to life, although he has not eaten anything since getting back to the nursing home after going to the hospital with congestive heart failure. God isn’t finished with him yet. Isn’t it wonderful that we have a Divine Daddy who chooses the perfect time for Home-coming?! My dad doesn’t say much, and he has become very confused. But I know that our Abba-Father is silently working in his soul. “The Father’s House” by Cory Asbury Sometimes on this journey I […] Read More