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Are you looking for more structure and discipline in your prayer life? Would you like to improve concentration by reflecting on your meditation sessions? Do you want to monitor your meditation practice and personal growth over time? Is it your desire to gain insights into your thoughts, emotions, and experiences? This book may be just what you're looking for!

I am not a poet, but during my prayer today, the Holy Spirit gave me words of my own to complete the melody of a song that kept repeating in the background of my mind after I awoke: Tapestry by Carole King. I hope these words from God bring you as much consolation and joy as they have for me! God bless!

"Amoris Laetitia: On Love in the Family" is the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis offering pastoral guidance to help families grow together in their faith and to encourage them in the face of mounting challenges. It is directed primarily to those engaged in family apostolate and to families themselves, with a recommendation that each part be “read patiently and carefully."  Because of all the media attention to the controversial sections of the eighth chapter, many people think this document is limited to only issues about divorce, remarriage, and discerning “irregular” situations.  Focusing on this controversy detracts from the beautiful message of fidelity to the “Gospel of the family” this document contains.  Here I summarize chapter four, “Love in Marriage,” which discusses the transformation of love, using Saint Paul’s famous passage about love from 1 Cor 13:4-7.  (Click heading to read more)

Pope Francis end his Apostolic Exhortation emploring all to strive "towards something greater than ourselves and our families, and every family must feel this constant impulse. Let us make this journey as families, let us keep walking together. What we have been promised is greater than we can imagine. May we never lose heart because of our limitations, or ever stop seeking that fullness of love and communion which God holds out before us." And he ends with a Prayer to the Holy Family. (Click header for this prayer)

The eyes of the Church are turned toward helping marriages and families. The face of God is turned toward our greatest needs for healing and holiness. Family life is a holy privilege that requires ... (Click heading to read more)

Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Plymouth, MI, hosted a five-week program in 2015 to look at the biblical vision of marriage and family. Pastor, Fr. John Riccardo and Deacon Jonathan Fasnacht discusses various aspects of marriage and family. (Click heading for links to each of the five podcosts)