by Timothy Flanders | Nov 10, 2022 | Liturgical, Prayer, Spiritual
The Church's Prayer Book Note: one of these plans is meant to complement the Advanced Bible Reading plan shown here. Audio Psalter The entire Psalter, Challoner-DR version, is contained in the iPieta app. This is helpful because you can play the Psalter on audio...
by Timothy Flanders | Feb 12, 2020 | Prayer
Before the Divine Office O Lord open my lips to bless Thy Holy Name, and cleanse my mind from all vain and evil and wondering thoughts. Enlighten my understanding and kindle my affections, that I may fittingly recite this office unto Thee with attention and devotion,...
by Timothy Flanders | Nov 4, 2019 | Prayer
From the Blessed Be God prayer book, pages 481-483. For Sunday O Lord God Almighty, I pray Thee by the Precious Blood which Thy divine Son Jesus shed in the garden, deliver the souls in purgatory, and especially that soul among them all which is most destitute of...
by Timothy Flanders | Jul 3, 2019 | Prayer
—Purgative Way— 1. Vocal Prayer 2. Mental Prayer 3. Affective Prayer 4. Acquired Recollection Bridge: Dark Night of the Senses —Illuminative Way— 5. Infused Contemplation 6. Prayer of Quiet Bridge: Dark Night of the Soul —Unitive...
by Timothy Flanders | Jun 9, 2019 | Practical, Prayer, Spiritual
The Church has enemies At Easter every Eastern Catholic hears the chant from the words of the Prophet: Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face (Ps. lxvii. 2). Moses writes that this was also chanted by the...
by Timothy Flanders | Jun 6, 2019 | Prayer
The Litany of the Saints is a very ancient Christian prayer in which the Church militant calls upon the Church triumphant for help for themselves and the Church suffering. This prayer is of particular use as our fathers enduring all forms of suffering to bring to us...
