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Devin Rose Wants to Bring His Popular Novena App to Android, and He Needs Your Help

We covered the amazing development of Devin Rose’s Pray the Novena app, and how he made praying novenas ridiculously easy. Immediately upon it’s release people were asking when it would be available for Android users. Well, Devin agrees, all users should be able to pray the novenas with simplicity and ease. He wants to port […]

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11 Historical Facts You Probably Didn’t Know about the Hail Mary, but Should

By Chloe Langr

1. A devotion to the Hail Mary prayer can be traced to the 1100s. Abbot Baldwin, the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1184 wrote about a devotion to the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer and said, “To this salutation of the Angel, by which we daily greet the most Blessed Virgin, with such devotion as we may, we

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10 Ways to Pray Unceasingly and Still Get All of Your Work Done

By Laura Hensley

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) How does one remember to pray “unceasingly” as we are commanded to do? Unless we are a hermit or cloistered nun, it seams next to impossible! It’s actually different that you might

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5 Nonessential Ministries No Parish Should Go Without

By Robert Barbry II

Technically, there isn’t much outside the Holy Mass that a parish is obliged to offer its congregants. Within the Mass the mandate to provide for the catechetical, pastoral, and sacramental needs of the parish are essentially covered. There are many ministries that often get overlooked, underestimated, or taken for granted that if they no longer

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5 Reason to Attend Daily Mass, and 5 Ways it will Change You

By Robert Barbry II

For many of us, the idea of making Daily Mass is a luxurious thought. We so quickly dismiss the idea without truly contemplating the real benefits of ‘sacrificing’ a portion of our day. I was one of those people… until I started going to Daily Mass. 1. 30 Minutes of Peace Whether you’re a

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How to Deal with Social Media Outrage Fatigue

By Shaun McAfee

The use of social media is a tremendous gift, but it also can have a darker side to it. Each day as we scroll through the news-feeds of the various platforms we use daily, we are inundated with news from around the world. This news makes the world seem smaller and at times the onslaught

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10 More Things You Might Be Doing Wrong at Mass

By David Rummelhoff

It was said in last week’s list that this is a bit tongue-in-cheek. I don’t know if that’s worth repeating. What I do know is that there’s still a lot more you might be doing wrong at Mass. Without further ado, and with only the Ordinary Form of the Mass in mind (Fr. Z.), what

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Top 10 Apps for Catholics

By Chloe Langr

https://www.playbuzz.com/chloem26/top-ten-apps-for-catholics

10 Things You Might Be Doing Wrong at Mass

By David Rummelhoff

[Edit – July 27: Mea culpa! Fr. Z. has rightly noted that I failed to declare that I was speaking only about the Ordinary Form of the Mass. I imagine anyone familiar with the Extraordinary Form recognized my undeclared specificity rather quickly. Regardless, no disrespect intended; many of us at EpicPew are fond of the EF.

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