Deb's Podcast

May these holy novena's bless your life abundantly during this most holy season of Lent.  May our Lord dwell deeply into your heart, mind, and soul.  We know as Christians, as Catholics, the power each and every one of these prayers hold deep within us, offering the gifts we need to continue living the life we are called to live in Christ Jesus. In time, God will reveal to us perfectly all th...

A Saint in our lifetime.  Mother Teresa.  How fortunate we are to know of her life  and her great works. She is an inspiration to us all.  Mother could be found in the slums, in search of the most destitute people, poor, abandoned, forgotten were highly sought after by this great woman of faith.  My first recollection of her was on television she was sitting on the curb of a street holding in her...

I so thank God for the gift  of knowing the word and the meaning of holiness.  I just think of Mary the holy Mother of God and her Son and instaneously I am brought into their holy presence.  I just need to sit there within their company and listen to the silence, the calm, the peace, yhe love that is truly available through our Lord himself.  Faith too is the greatest gift to mankind.  So very fe...

Blessed are we as Christians to pray these prayers together during this most holy season of Lent.  A time of great awareness.  A time of great repentance.  We should be making a forty day fast.  Fasting from food, fasting from negativity, fasting from anything that is preventing us from being in a holy state of mind, body, soul, or spirit with our creator.  If you are struggling to fast in this fa...

We will never fiully know the impact of every single prayer we recite from our heart for ourselves, those we love, and for those we never met.  But I would imagine someone up above is listening with the utmost greatest compassion.  We will never know why we suffered here on earth, but as the saints remind us not even our sufferings go to waste.  They are being used somehow someway for the greater...

How very blessed we are to have these special prayers known to us over the decades as Novena's.  We are so encouraged by them as we remain faithful to Christ and our life as Christians.  We desire to go deeper into the prayers and as a student myself currently studying within the Dominican Lay Group, I have greatly experienced the countless blessings of being united in prayer with fellow Domi...

The Holy Infant Jesus Of Good Health is Venerated At His Shrine In Morelia, Mexico.  How This Devotion Developed...About 1942 a small wooden statue of the Holy Infant Jesus in a private home in Morelia, Mexico, began to cause astonished surprise.  The LITTLE Infant seemed to respond in wondrous ways to prayerful petitions, especially in matters of health.  These special favors were first granted t...

In the early 1990's I belonged to a Marian Cenacle.  It was there that my  personal devotion to our Blessed Mother Mary increased greatly.  I was introduced to these Marian devotions through Judge Schmitt and his lovely wife.  God rest his soul.  We gathered after mass  to say the Rosary and deeply meditate upon each mystery.  Then we recited together the Act Of Consecration and sang  Marian...

Why the urgency for so much prayer?  Good question.  We desperately need purification.  We don't see our self as sinners. We have become desensitized to our sinfulness, we are disgraceful when it comes to not wanting to work on the inside of our heart, mind, soul, and body.  As our skin gets dirty on the outside, so does the inside of our body. Sure we can wash our skin with soap and clean it...

Sadly, even the greatest intercessor, can sometimes be forgotten.  I make it a point to always include our holy Mother Mary as I journal with you in every podcast.  Mary is so very worthy of remembrance!  The holy mother of God.  Mary, Stella Maris! The Star of the Sea, watching over every one of God's children, morning, noon, and night.  We rely on her fully to hear our cry for help when hel...

Pope Leo XIII  "    We ought to pray and invoke the Holy Spirit, for each of us greatly needs his protection and His help.  The more a man is deficient in wisdom, weak in strength, borne down with trouble, prone to sin, so ought he the more fly to Him who is the never ceasing Fount of Light, Strength, Consolation and Holiness." The novena in honor of the Holy Ghost is the oldest of all n...

How great is your desire to know Christ?  Do you desire him so much that you would be willing to place him at the very helm of your daily life?   Would you be willing to make Christ the most important part of your life?  Would you be willing to die for him, as he died for you?  Christ desires this gift of eternal life for all humanity, but I question, does humanity desire eternal life with Christ?...

We will never fully know the power of every prayer we ever said in the silence of our own heart in the company of Jesus Christ.  When we return to Jesus one day, I will have that answer given to me I am most sure of it.  For now, we are oh so, way too busy to recognize the great fruit within us and we miss the opportunity to say or show our thankfulness to our Lord in full.  For today, and every d...

Our God is a God of order.  And for Him to create the entire universe, He had to be  orderly.  In His perfection were  are all made perfect.  In the womb of our very mother.  Christ was present from the moment of conception He created flesh, bone, cells, veins, arteries, lungs, heart, brain, feet, hands, eyes, nose, lips, hair, ears, throat, tongue, every single part of you was made by Him - for H...

Allow me to exemplify upon this most precious wonderful gift of when we readily accept God as our Lord and Saviour.  It is then, we are a forever changed people. We never want to stop growing in his presence.  Why is that you may ask, well, I believe it is because, when we accept Him, we invite Him into the interior cell of our being. We are much more aware of our accountability, and we become mor...

Prayer. It changes us.  We may not always see it at first but later we learn that prayer strips us of all the things that we do not need to be carrying around with us for the journey.  I call it excess baggage.  Its time to get rid of the things that weigh us down.  And when we do we can breathe easier and live happier productive lives.   Layer upon layer this excess weight is stripped from the co...

As we continue our prayerful journey together tonight, I ask God to guide you very personally into this novena.  The deeper we go into the prayerful life the more meaningful our life will become.  To be rich in Christ, is to be rich in His love.  His love for us is tremendous.  More so contagious!  Those of you blessed to be walking with the Lord for a very long time know this truth.  I don't...

What a great way to begin this Lenten Season 2023!  We welcome our Lord and enter into this most sacred time within His holy presence.  The longer I walk with Christ, all the more I want to be totally devoted as His own.  I love our faith.  It is so welcoming.  And when we see how real and alive we are in Christ, we live out the beginning of our eternity on earth.  How blessed we truly are to know...

What is it about prayer that opens us up to the Holy Spirit?  Do we even understand what this means?  I believe we are given these special prayers to recite for a reason, mainly I believe, to help us find our way, and to help save our very souls from final damnation, the very soul that our Lord himself gave to us personally.  One cannot see ones soul.  However, ones soul does, in fact, exist.  It...

We are reminded about the great corporeal and spiritual works of mercy that God himself has commissioned to each and every person he has ever created.  Especially today as I reflect upon the life of service offered by Bishop David G. O' Connell.  His desire to do Gods work was obviously great!  Today after reading about his life works as a priest, associate pastor, and bishop, I was reminded...

The power of prayer is worth experiencing! If you truly want to live a fruitful life you have this opportunity to do so every single day.  Start now.  And  you will begin to see the seed of great fruit sprout in your life. We must desire Christ, and when we desire Christ, we change.  We can never change on our own.  We need the help of God.   We grow in his goodness and in his greatness and it is...

This Novena will change what God wants for you to change in your life.   If it is the light of Jesus you are truly desiring to experience, I personally encourage you to recite this novena.   Just this past week, the week before my dads first anniversary of his death, I was given the vision of light.  It followed me throughout my home, morning, noon, and night.   That illumination at first alarmed...

My precious Lord...Saint Padre Pio...Dad....I discovered that the greatest strength of God, is readily available to everyone who desires great silence .  A silent prayerful life has taken its hold over me. It is increasing my faith, enriching my values, and molding me into the woman I have always desired to be.   I am so very thankful to have the daily support of my creator, guiding my spiritual g...

Receiving the Holy Eucharist.  If we only knew the great gift awaits us and that great gift is Christ!  To receive the Holy Eucharist in the greatest awe as did Blessed Imelda, we would all die of joy inside!  Blessed Imelda, was raised beautifully by her parents, to love the Catholic faith, especially prayer and holiness of the mass.  Her mom had taught her to cook and sew for the poor, and to pe...

Enter into the truth.  Accept it as it truly is.  It is there my brothers and my sisters, we truly discover every answers to the questions of life that appear as a great mystery.  A mystery so great and unknown becomes solved instantaneously in the light, purified by the truth, simply by making the distinct choice to choose wisely.  Our pastor tells us, very often only God himself can make us holy...