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Pray for the souls in purgatory Eternal Father I offer you the Most Precious Blood of Jesus together with all the masses being said this day all over the world for the souls in purgatory. Amen  

Cheryl has kindly signed up as one of our blog authors. Please check out her site here (Cheryl Dickow is a Catholic wife, mother, author and speaker. She co-authored and published the best-selling All Things Girl books and co-hosted the EWTN 13 part televison series of the same name. Her company is Bezalel Books (Bezalel is Hebrew and means "in the shadow of God") where her goal is to publish great Catholic books for families and classrooms that entertain while uplifting the Catholic faith. Her website is http://www.bezalelbooks.com/ where parents, teachers and catechists are invited to browse through titles that include Patti Maguire Armstrong's book Dear God, I don't get it! and Cheryl's most recent book is Our Jewish Roots: A Catholic Woman's Guide where she explores the role of Matriarch from a Catholic perspective. To invite Cheryl to speak at your event, write her at Cheryl@BezalelBooks.com or phone her at 248.917.3865.) ( This article of her...

I was thinking about persistent prayer and how long do we keep praying? Do we give up after a month, six months, a year? We may see small answers to prayer and yet not achieve the 'miracle' that we are waiting for. St John Chrysotom says " Whether, therefore we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us continue steadfast in prayer". Waiting for our own personal miracle in the family we continue in prayer even after a year. We have seen many answers to prayer and many miracles and trust like my daughter when she had a separate prayer need - when she had a partial answer to prayer, she trusted in God to fill in the blanks - and He did. That God intended to bring some greater good out of it - so we continue to believe for our miracle. "Ask, and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened. For everyone that asks receives and he that seeks finds and to him that knocks, it shall be opened" Matthew 7:7 So we nee...

I am pleased to be writing a post on the new Blog for women bloggers. Fellow bloggers have been a great source of comfort, inspiration and teachings on my Catholic journey. It’s encouraging to see so many Catholics sharing their faith on Blogs and social network sites like Facebook. The Pope is encouraging the use of social media to spread the gospel. There is certainly a lot of coverage of matters specific to the Catholic faith and the pro-life movement and a lot of opportunity to make change for the good through such formats as on line petitions in order to make real changes in the world. There is time for us to encourage one another in the faith and share a little humour and discuss matters close to our hearts. It was interesting that the Pope made sure that the Beatification of Pope John Paul II was streamed live on line and met with fellow Bloggers from all nations the day after on 2nd May! I look forward to reading my fellow female blogger posts. So get Blogging!

A Day at the Ranch looking at all those well cared for kittys always cheers me up!

Any Christian woman or woman interested in Christianity can post even if you don't have your own blog! Just send me your email address to rosary@blueyonder.co.uk

Pictured Fr Sean Coyle (I have ongoing discussions with Fr Sean Coyle about what is most important..the couple or the couple as parents? He writes a provocative piece at Bangor to Bobbio, here & below. What do you all think?) Today's news reports the separation of a prominent American couple (not the couple in the photo at whose marriage I officiated!), both Catholics, after 25 years of marriage. Their four children range in age from 21 to 14. The couple issued this statement, part of which I emphasise: 'This has been a time of great personal and professional transition for each of us. After a great deal of thought, reflection, discussion, and prayer, we came to this decision together. 'At this time, we are living apart while we work on the future of our relationship. We are continuing to parent our four children together. They are the light and the centre of both of our lives.' I do not know all that is behind this particular separation and clearly it ...