The Tree of Healing: On Prayer

Now available on Amazon/ Kindle: The River of Life. Recipient of the Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval. This story about Rose's father is the prequel to The Tree of Healing.

Twelve-year-old Anthony is carefree until his beloved father passes away. Questioning suffering and death, Anthony grows distant from God. A heaven-sent friend helps him to see God’s tender providence within the ebb and flow of life, in currents of loss and restoration, and in the living stream of Christ’s Blood. While trying to find the burial site of martyrs and searching for treasures they hid, he finds a hidden treasure that was before him all along: Christ Crucified. Anthony comes to understand what his father meant by his last words to him, that he would always find him in the Heart of Christ, open at the cross. When Anthony pours himself out for God, water springs up from the earth as a personal sign of the pouring out of Christ’s Heart in a great river of life.

On Prayer

The Ways of Mental Prayer
Treasury of Latin Prayers
Divine Office
The Liturgical Year
Lectio Divina

The Seven Sorrows of Mary Devotion
The Seven Sorrows and Joys of Saint Joseph

The Stations of the Cross
      Our Lady of the Rosary
                                                                                                           The History of the Rosary
                                                                                                           Rosa Mystica

                                                                                         St. Louis de Montfort's Way of Total Consecration
                                                                                     The Universal Living Rosary Association
   The Rosary Confraternity

Litany of Loretto

Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom and is rich in prudence: The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chiefest and purest gold: She is more precious than all riches: and all the things that are desired, are not to be compared with her. Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and glory. Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed. (Proverbs 3:13-18)

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Leaving Fin for Wing
Sometimes I glimpse Your glory
Before it hides and dims,
Heaven half-revealing
The sea in which I swim.
Those times, my Lord, I try
To drink and drink You in.
So cold, I rise from depths
If only for a breath
And linger at the surface,
Your warmth upon my skin.

Sometimes I’m mired in darkness
And evil that men do,
Brought down in corruption
To fathoms that I rue.
Those times, my Lord, at length
I call to You anew.
Sinking in my debts
Between the hooks and nets,
So deeply scarred from sin
And broken through and through.

Sometimes I want my soul
To blaze out into view
In glory just to prove
The praise that is Your due.
That time, my Lord, my eyes
Won’t cry and cry for You.
I'd meet a martyr’s death
And stretch out to the breadth
Of fullness of Your truth,
All for the love of You.

At last, I'd leave this sea
Of tears and would begin
To rise above the surface,
Leaving fin for wing.
That time, my Lord, I’d breathe
And breathe You from within.