Family Prayer Resources

Looking for ways to support the domestic churches in their prayer lives? Check out these resources:

"Harcourt Religion - Family Prayers." your.harcourtreligion.com. 25 May 2000. 25 May 2007 .

Lewis, Suzanne. Children's Daily Prayer. Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2006.

Martin, Michaelann, Carol Puccio, and Zoe Romanowsky. The Catholic Parent Book of Feasts: Celebrating the Church Year With Your Family. : Our Sunday Visitor, 1999.

Renz, Kelley. God Listens to Our Children: Kids' Prayers for Every Day of the Liturgical Year. : Our Sunday Visitor, 2006.

"Ten Prayers Every Catholic Child Should Know - Ten Prayers for Catholic Children." Catholicism - Roman Catholicism - Roman Catholic Christianity. 2007 .

Thompson, Katie. The Complete Children's Liturgy Book: Liturgies of the Word for Years A, B, C. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 2004.

United States Catholic Conference. Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers. Washington D.C.: Usccb Publishing, 1989.

Catholic Prayers (Small Prayerbook). Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1990.

Table Prayer Cards: Table Prayer Card for Autumn and Winter. Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2001.

What would Jesus drink?

I'm a fan of Starbucks. It's not so much that I like paying $4.00 for a cup of coffee. It's my amazement at how many people, especially young people, seem to be hanging around all the time. Starbucks is good a creating a community gathering place. That didn't happen by accident. Starbucks CEO Jim Donald says it is part of their marketing psychology. Starbucks wants us to think of their coffee shops as a primary place in our lives.

We say the first place is home, second place is office, and then Starbucks is a third place. They use our stores for gathering spots, and we think that that that's what makes that whole experience what it is today.

Anyone see "church" on that list? Me either. What I wonder, every time I stand in line with people ordering "half-caf fraps" and "double shot lattes" is what can we learn from Starbucks to make our parishes as inviting, especially to young people.

[ABCNews.com]

Prayer space in the domestic church

We arrange our homes to reflect our personalities and interests. Literature lovers fill their rooms with books and comfy reading chairs. An enthusiastic cook may spend thousands turning a dull kitchen into a glittering showpiece. Yet aside from occasional holiday decorations, the spiritual side of life rarely plays a starring role in the home.

Read rest of this helpful article on creating a prayer space in the domestic churches of the parish. Click here.

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How Latinos practice their faith

According to a major study released this week, Latinos are very religious.

The report's main conclusion — that Latinos and their embrace of charismatic styles of worship are reshaping the nation's religious landscape — garnered the most attention when the document was released Wednesday. But the study also took a close look at how Latinos practice their faith.

Read all about it in the L.A. Times.

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Cyber confession

A woman kept her secret for nearly two decades.

Finally ready to confess, she turned not to a minister, but to her computer.

The confession appears at ivescrewedup.com, a website launched by the Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City. It's one of a growing number of such sites across the country -- some secular and others church-sponsored -- that offer a place to spill out ugly secrets or just make peccadilloes public.

The Miami Hearald reports confession Web sites attract hundreds of admissions a day.



Just click and confess. [via DallasNews Religion]

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