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Pray: Untie knots with Mary’s healing

Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.

Write: Let go of a knot in order to “untie” it.

Letting go is just another phrase that means forgiveness, especially for ourselves.

There is nothing to fear: A meditation on Luke 21

By our perseverance—in faith, not in fear—we will secure our lives.

Write: Compose a prayer for souls

In this season of the Feast of All Souls, write a brief prayer for your own soul, asking God how you might serve Him the rest of your living days.

Read: A real-life refuge points to God’s protection and love

I set aside the twisted, prideful notion that it was my job to safeguard myself and my daughters single-handedly. We needed God’s grace and protection.

Pray: Blessing of the Father

This reading reminds not just fathers and sons, but also mothers, daughters and all those who parent or are parented that God the Father awaits our return from loneliness, anger, jealousy and desolation with His ever-ready blessing.

Write: Find security in your own love and compassion

Write about how past suffering makes you more capable of motherly love.

Pray: Our Mother, Jesus

In this month of Mary, one holy woman reminds us that Jesus is our Mother, too

Read: A Prayer for the Lost

I understood that God’s roadmap for me diverged from the paths of those I loved. I realized the best I could offer my lost ones was prayer.