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Happy Thanksgiving!
We have created a Thanksgiving Grace for you to use at Thanksgiving dinner, or whenever you eat with friends and family. Click here to download and print it. See our other Advent resources at...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Celebrate by sharing this prayer. Click here for Our Lady’s story with friends and family. The art and prayer on this page are by Sister Ansgar Holmberg....
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Pray the Advent Names of God
The O Antiphons are the prayers for Vespers from December 17 through December 23. They are the last signposts on our journey through Advent to Christmas. Sister Joan and Sister Ansgar created art and...
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Make Daily Prayer a Habit for Lent
Our pocket-sized prayer journal has daily prayer at your fingertips. Go to goodgroundpress.com and click on the folding prayer illustration. Download the page, follow the folding directions, and begin...
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Prayer for Parkland, Florida
– Lori True, ritual and liturgy director for the Sisters of St. Joseph in St. Paul.
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Joseph of Dreams, Be With Us
Art by Ansgar Holmberg, CSJ When Joseph didn’t know what to do with his pregnant fiancée, he slept on it. In his dreams, an angel eased his doubt and gave him courage to act. Pray to Joseph today to...
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Blessings on this Fourth of July!
Photo via Flickr user littlestar19 Our 4th Of July blessing is the final two stanzas from the poem “One Today” by Richard Blanco, composed for President Obama’s second inauguration. We are all...
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A Prayer For Today
New Beginnings Spirit of Life, bless us as we enter this new time, and as we bless one another in peace. In this time of hope we wish to affirm life for all. We commit ourselves again to bring your...
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Sister Joan has a new book!
Sister Joan has created a litany for the women in Mark’s Gospel. Sister Ansgar joined the prayer by bringing the women to life with her art. We invite you to join us in prayer and reflection and in...
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Prayer is an invitation
Who is being summoned in this Robert Francis poem? Summons Keep me going to sleep too soon Or if I go to sleep too soon Come wake me up. Come any hour Of night. Come whistling up the road. Stomp on...
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Holy Women, Full of Grace
Women were always there with Jesus. Holy Women, Full of Grace invites you to pray with Jesus’ mother, the generous widow, Jairus’s daughter, and many other gospel women, names and unnamed. An ideal...
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New Online Retreat!
Pray with the women of the gospel. We have a new retreat for you, based on Sister Joan’s new book, Holy Women, Full of Grace. We hope these four sessions with gospel women will be an occasion for you...
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Praying the Advent Names of God
The O Antiphons are the Church’s prayer for the last days of Advent. Each of these cards have been beautifully illustrated by Ansgar Holmberg, CSJ and include a prayer poem written by Sister Joan. On...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Story
Our Mother Who Art Tomorrow is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Click here for her story. Share it with family and friends. The art and prayer on this page are by Sister Ansgar, CSJ. May you and our...
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Holy Women of Luke’s Gospel
Sister Joan and Sister Ansgar have collaborated for a second time on Gospel women. In both his Gospel and in the Acts of the Apostles, Luke tells women’s stories — Mary and Martha, the widow of Nain,...
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Be Ready For Lent!
Four Ways to Be Ready for Lent 1. The Lent/Easter issues of Sunday by Sunday. Nothing beats sharing the Gospel message with friends and family, especially during Lent. Our special price for the eight...
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A Lenten Practice: Living Like Francis
Living Like Francis Today invites both individuals and small groups to explore six Franciscan themes — living simply, humbly, prayerfully, lovingly, with care for creation, and at peace. This...
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Ash Wednesday Prayer Service
Ash Wednesday is next week, March 6. We have prepared an Ash Wednesday prayer service for those of you who cannot make it to church or who would like to celebrate with the homebound or those in...
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Happy Mardi Gras!
Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday. In years past people didn’t eat meat for all of Lent, so this was their last chance to fry pancakes in bacon fat. We have gone beyond that small feast to all-out parties...
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Ash Wednesday
Photo via Flickr user Lawrence OP “So let us be marked not for sorrow. And let us be marked not for shame. Let us be marked not for false humility or for thinking we are less than we are but for...
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