Know The Faith - Traditional Catholic Lessons and Prayers

Ancient Prayer to Saint Joseph

An Ancient Prayer to Saint Joseph O ST. JOSEPH, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in thee all my interests and desires. O St. Joseph, assist me by thy powerful intercession and obtain for me all spiritual blessings through thy foster Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord, so that, having engaged here below thy heavenly power, I may offer thee my thanksgiving and homage. O St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating thee and Jesus asleep in thine arms....

Prayer for the Synod on Synodality

Lord Jesus Christ, Our God and Saviour, You are the Head of the Church, Your spotless Bride and Mystical Body. Look mercifully upon the profound distress to which Our Holy Mother Church has been subjected. Doctrinal confusion, moral abomination, and liturgical abuse have, in our day, reached an unprecedented height. “The heathens have come into your inheritance, having defiled your holy temple, and laid Jerusalem in ruins” (Ps 79:1). Churchmen who have lost the true Faith and become promoter...

Lenten Reflection - Covetousness

Justice Counters Covetousness (Greed) "Father, Into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit." Find more at: KnowTheFaith.net

Lenten Reflection - Sloth

Diligence Counters Sloth "It Is Finished." Find more at: KnowTheFaith.net

Lenten Reflection - Gluttony

Temperance Counters Gluttony "I Thirst." Find more at: KnowTheFaith.net

Lenten Reflection - Pride

Humility Counters Pride  "My God, My God why hast Thou forsaken Me." Find more at: KnowTheFaith.net

Lenten Reflection - Lust

Chastity counters Lust "Woman behold thy Son; behold thy Mother" Find more at: KnowTheFaith.net

Lenten Reflection - Envy

Pity counters Envy "This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise." Find more at: KnowTheFaith.net

Lenten Reflection - Anger

Forgiveness counters Anger. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." Find more at: KnowTheFaith.net

Devotion to the Five Wounds of Jesus Christ

To the Wound in the Right Hand To the Wound in the Left Hand To the Wound in the Right Foot To the Wound in the Left Foot To the Wound in the Sacred Side     more prayers at www.KnowTheFaith.net

Living the Joy of Pentecost

A reflection from Pope Benedict XVI

Getting to Know St Joseph Better

On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and the Last Day of the Year of Saint Joseph, we welcome Fr Matthias Sasko of the Franciscans of the Immaculate with some insight into the life of St Joseph and how to approach a relationship with him.

Lenten Minute Reflection - 7 Last Words

As we head through Lent towards Good Friday and then onto Easter. It can be power to meditate on what is called the 'Last 7 Words of Christ'. 1) Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. 2) Today you will be with me in paradise. 3) Woman, behold, thy son! Behold, thy mother! 4) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 5) I thirst. 6) It is finished. 7) Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

St Joseph - Advent Reflection Minute

St Joseph is mentioned in all the Gospels, but no words of his are ever recorded in scripture. You could say St Joseph is the strong silent type. The Gospel of Matthew tells us that when Mary was betrothed to him but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit, and Joseph since he was a righteous man, and unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly., but then an angel appeared in a dream and told him not to be afraid. St Joseph did as the...

Waiting - Advent Reflection Minute

Advent comes with some challenges …for us in the northern hemisphere the days are now short and dark. Another challenge especially for children is patience. Waiting for those wrapped gifts under the tree to be opened. Celebrating Advent means learning how to wait. We hear in Psalm 130 - My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for daybreak. But what if Advent is the opportunity YOU have been waiting for? That time to grow in your faith, to better know your faith, to make that commitment...

Begin Again - Advent Reflection Minute

Happy New Year! Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year in the Church. Do you have a New Years Resolution for this New Liturgical Year? Let me recommend a simple one… To Begin Again. Venerable Bruno Lanteri, who founded the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, had a popular phrase he often used… Begin Again. What a great phrase to embrace for Advent. Each Year we have an opportunity to Begin Again with each Advent. If we have struggled in the past year to become better Christians, if we ...

Prayer of Command for Our Families and Our Country

A Deliverance Prayer of Command for the Laity.  

Good Friday Gospel and Homily with Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ

Christ became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every other name.

The Way of the Cross

We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You; Because, by Your holy cross, You have redeemed the world...

Lent Reflection - Lazarus is One of Us

When Jesus arrives at the Tomb of Lazarus, Mary his sister kneels before Jesus and said, “Lord if you had been here my brother would not have died”. Jesus was friends with Lazarus and his sisters. When he sees her weeping, he is moved and The gospel tell us, Jesus Wept. Those 2 words. Are the shortest sentence in the Gospels. "Jesus wept."

Lent Reflection - The Our Father

Think of that person in your life you have a hard time reconciling with…if he or she doesn’t come immediately to your mind ask your guardian angel to help you discern who this person is. Pray for that person every day throughout the rest of Lent, even if you can’t stand them. What good is it to fast and obey every discipline of Lent but still end up after 40 days not reconciled with each other? The Lord’s Prayer is an important prayer to revisit on a deeper level during Lent.

Lent Reflection - The Woman at the Well

There is a lot of depth and interesting details in the story of the woman at the well.. Jesus asks a Samaritan woman for a drink while his disciples are off to buy food... and this request leads to a fascinating conversation. Jesus reveals to her that he has living water that will cause those who drink it to never thirst again, he also reveals he knows the details of her relationship with several husbands and even tells her a non-Jew that he is the Christ, the long-awaited Messiah.  We are t...

Lent Reflection - The Transfiguration

When Saint Pope John Paul the 2nd added the Luminous Mysteries to the Holy Rosary back around 2002, I found the Transfiguration to be the most difficult mystery for me to meditate on. I knew its story but didn’t know to relate it to my life. Years later after dealing with medical struggles, I realized that to experience the Transfiguration was to grasp a small sense of God’s grace in my life...

Lent Reflection - The Desert

It’s OK for Lent to be a struggle. Christ never promised us fame, riches, or happiness in this life, but rather suffering poverty and sacrifice. The desert of lent helps us discern the need for God. We must realize in most cases the desert is more of a path then a place for us to live. If we follow in the path of Christ, that is in His Way of the Cross, we find not a crown of gold but a crown of thorns.

Ash Wednesday Reflection

Our Lady of Hope Novena

I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth; in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come to me all that desire me and be filled with my fruits (Sirach 24: 24-26). O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Grace, Hope of the world. Hear us, your children, who cry to you Let Us Pray O God, who by the marvelous protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary has strengthened us firmly in hope, grant we beseech You, that by pe...

Advent Week 4 - Peace A Gift and a Task

Peace A Gift and a Task

Advent Week 3 - Rejoice in the Lord Always

This 3rd week of Advent begins with Gaudete Sunday.. This is the week of the rose-colored candle on the Advent wreath. Gaudete means rejoice, and rejoice means to feel or show great joy, We are getting closer and closer to the celebration of the birth of our Savior, truly a cause of great joy. When the angel first appeared to the shepherds in fields outside of Bethlehem, the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the p...

Advent Week 2 -Faith and The Saint of Advent

The majority of the details about the nativity all come from the Gospel of Luke, but before St Luke tells us anything about Jesus, he tells us about John The Baptist. In a way, I often think of John the Baptist as the patron of Advent...

Reparation Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Adorable Heart of Jesus, glowing with love for us and inflamed with zeal for our salvation. O Heart that understands the misery to which our sins have brought us, infinitely rich in mercy to heal the wounds of our souls, behold me humbly kneeling before You to express the sorrow that fills my heart for the coldness and indifference with which I have so long returned the numberless benefits which You have bestowed upon me. With a deep sense of the outrages that have been heaped upon You by ...

Advent Week 1 - Hope in the Root of Jesse

It maybe December, but it’s NOT the Christmas season yet. Even if the department stores starting Advertising Christmas immediately after Halloween, it is still several weeks away. We are really just beginning Advent.

Prayer of St Bonaventure

A Prayer of St Bonaventure...

Stations of the Cross through the Eyes of Mary

7 Minute Holy Week Daily Reflection Mary my mother, you were the first to live the Way of the Cross...   Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.

Lenten Reflection: Go and Sin No More!

Many Christians are familiar with the story where the Pharisees bring a woman caught in adultery to Jesus and try to test him for charges against the Law’s of Moses. Jesus had been showing all sorts of mercy that was unusual to them, eating with sinners and tax collectors, driving demons out of gentiles, and even curing people on the sabbath, they thought they could trap him, but Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground,we can assume he was writing out their sins. He then said “Let t...

Lenten Reflection - 3rd Temptation - Doubt

The Devil’s third temptation for Jesus in the Wilderness is Doubt. He leads Jesus to Jerusalem the city where he will soon be rejected and crucified. There he made him stand on the edge of the temple roof, and said to Him “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here “ then flipping the script he tries to trap Jesus with some scripture quoting of his own” for it is written: He will command his angels to guard you, With their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot ag...

Lenten Reflection - 2nd Temptation- Obedience

Obedience is the 2nd Temptation of the Devil for Jesus in the Wilderness. The evil one showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant. Then he said to Jesus , “I shall give to you all this power and their glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I may give it to whomever I wish. ...All this will be yours, if you worship me.” but Jesus again quotes from Deuteronomy and says” ‘You shall worship the Lord, your God,and him alone shall you serve. Unlike the Israelites who gave ...

Lent Reflection - Temptation

During the 40 Days that Jesus spent fasting in the desert, The first temptation he experienced from the devil was that of hunger. The Devil said ““If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” Jesus responds by quoting from the book of Deuteronomy. ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God” ---“God let the Israelites be afflicted with hunger in the desert, but then fed them with manna a food unknown to them, that prefigured ...

Lent Reflection - Why 40 Days?

The 40 days of Lent remind us of when Jesus himself fasted and was tempted in the desert. In the bible 40 symbolizes a time of struggle, purification, and rebirth 40 weeks is the time it take a child to be develop in a mothers womb. Noah in the Ark watched it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and then the people of God were reborn after the flood, Moses went up Mt Sinai for 40 days to receive the Commandments and the and they were reborn in to a covenant and the Israelites wandered in the deser...

Ash Wednesday Reflection

Why is it that on Ash Wednesday, we always hear from the Gospel of Matthew about" not performing deeds of righteousness in order that people see them", we then proceed to have the priest make a cross of ashes on our forehead as we then go out into our workplaces, schools, and the public square? Doesn't this seem a paradox? While the gospel is a good reminder not to flaunt our good deeds nor to think we are better than others because we went to mass on a weekday, the truth is we don't wear t...

Dan Lynch on Our Lady of Guadalupe

Dan Lynch speaks with Drew Mariani about the Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on her feast day.

Advent Reflection Week Four

  We are now in the 4th week of Advent, Christmas will be here before we know it. All 4 candles of the advent wreath are fully aglow filling the room with light to remind us how close we are to the arrival of the Light of the World. The Prophecy we read in Micah says: But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah, least among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel. Bethlehem actually translates as "House of Bread"...  

Advent Reflection Week Three

This 3rd week of advent begins with Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete means Rejoice! We take it from the Traditional Introit heard at Mass: Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete ...that translates as Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, Rejoice! This is the week of the different color advent candle and vestments. While you may be thinking it’s pink, the actual color is rose to symbolize rejoicing in the closeness of Christmas. This week we're going to look at the Genealogy of Jesus found ...

Advent Reflection Week Two

People not that familiar with the New Testament, probably assume the Gospels begin with some cute verse, like, It came upon a midnight clear, or Away in a Manger no crib for a bed. But none of the first verses of any of the Gospels, begin with a Christmas narrative. Matthew starts with a long Geneology and while the Gospel of John’s beginning may sound more familiar: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… after that the Gospel of John along with Mark...

Advent Reflection Week One

Advent is now underway. This week we’ll take a look at what the word advent actually means. The word advent comes from the Latin word ADVENTUS, which translates as arrival or coming...

Halloween and its relationship with Christianity w/ Fr. Doustou

Catholicism and Halloween - A Presentation on Halloween and it's Relationship with Christianity, given by Fr Kyle Doustou of the Diocese of Portland, Maine. 2018

How To Be Holy -TALK THREE w/ Dan Lynch

St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, “We are certainly not seduced by the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our time, we shall find some magic formula. No, we shall not be saved by a formula but by a Person, and the assurance which he gives us: I am with you! . . . “This programme for all times is our pro...

How To Be Holy -TALK TWO w/ Dan Lynch

St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, “We are certainly not seduced by the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our time, we shall find some magic formula. No, we shall not be saved by a formula but by a Person, and the assurance which he gives us: I am with you! . . . “This programme for all times is our pro...

How To Be Holy -TALK ONE w/ Dan Lynch

St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, “We are certainly not seduced by the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our time, we shall find some magic formula. No, we shall not be saved by a formula but by a Person, and the assurance which he gives us: I am with you! . . . “This programme for all times is our pro...

How To Be Holy w/ Dan Lynch - INTRODUCTION

This is an Introduction to three talks that Dan Lynch gave at a retreat in 2003 on St. Pope John Paul II's Plan for the Third Millennium. The 3 talks will be posted in the coming days... St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, “We are certainly not seduced by the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our time, w...

#60 Chaplet of St Michael the Archangel

Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of His promises...