Prayer
Motivation is the key to carrying out any worthy enterprise. Great men and great women have clear goals and strong motivations. They know what they want and they have a clear plan before their eyes. CEO’s in successful companies know what they want, have goals, deadlines, and concrete steps to attain those goals. Professional athletes…
Read MoreAn excerpt from “The Story of a Soul” an autobiography of St. Therese the Little Flower. With me prayer is an uplifting of the heart; a glance towards heaven; a cry of gratitude and love, uttered equally in sorrow and in joy. In a word, it is something noble, supernatural, which expands my soul and…
Read MoreThis past week, we discovered a nest in our backyard containing three baby birds. They must have hatched very recently because they are at the stage where they are still quite ugly—no feathers, huge heads, and gaping mouths. Our two boys are absolutely delighted, and they express their excitement by running around the yards shouting,…
Read MorePrayer is the key to salvation. St. Augustine says that he who prays well lives well; he who lives well dies well; and to he who dies well all is well. St. Alphonsus reiterates the same principle: “He who prays much will be saved; he who does not pray will be damned; he who prays little places…
Read MoreRecently, St. Michael Catholic Radio was able to have Bishop Edward Slattery participate in KWHB- TV47’s National Day of Prayer Month campaign. Here is the video that will continue to be played on KWHB Ch. 47. We thank Bishop Slattery for participating and setting a prayerful example for us all to follow. The Tulsa Diocese…
Read MoreThe Didache is an extraordinary document in Christian History. Although it is not part of God’s word, it gives modern day Christians a blueprint of how the earliest Church Fathers understood the Church during Her infant stages. Today as I was reading it my eyes focused on Chapter 10 titled, “Prayer after Communion”. I read it with…
Read MoreThis Sunday at 3:30pm, St. Michael Catholic Radio will be filming the Divine Mercy Chaplet at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Broken Arrow, OK. Click here for a map We want to invite you to come pray with us as Deacon Dick Berbett, accompanied by a few members of the St. Benedict choir, will lead us in…
Read MoreFather Matt Gerlach is the pastor at St. Pious X Parish in Tulsa, OK. He studied Theology at Saint Meinrad School of Theology and is the Director of Propagation of the Faith in the Tulsa Diocese. He is the youngest of 6 kids, he has 14 nieces and nephews, and 30 great nieces and nephews.…
Read MoreLent is coming up very quick. St. Michael Catholic Radio will be doing something special this Lenten season, in hopes to help everyone grow in prayer and faith while going through these 40 days of suffering. We will be displaying 1 Bible verse everyday for our readers to memorize. It won’t be a tough verse,…
Read MoreBefore I start, let me say one thing: discovering how to pray is a lifelong adventure and the methods I describe below are a starting point, a map that can point us in the right direction. Let us also remember that prayer is not rigid and full of formulas we must use. If we restrict ourselves to saying “100 Our Fathers…
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