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When a child is born, parents have a flood of hopes for their future — health, happiness, love, a successful career and maybe a family of their own one day. For many Catholic parents, those hopes are centered around the Catholic faith guiding each step of that child’s life.
There are many ways parents, along with the Church, can help guide their children to have a strong foundation of faith, as well as ways to cope when they choose a different path as adults.
For the past four years, about 30 people have met at Christ the King Church in Little Rock to pray for the intercession of St. Monica that the Holy Spirit will move their children, other relatives or friends back to Catholicism.
The St. Monica Prayer Group began in 2019, following a dream by parishioner Evelyn Moseley, who founded and leads the group with help from fellow Bible study friends Dianne Toomer and Dana Bauer.
The group attends More... 
During his weekly adoration hour at midnight on Friday mornings, St. Joseph Church in Conway parishioner Don Kremer would walk into the adoration chapel, approach the altar, stand on the steps with his arms raised, praying for his four adult children to come back to the Church.
On July 27, 2018, he heard an answer. But it wasn’t what he expected.
“I clearly heard Jesus say, ‘You are praying the wrong prayer.’ It really shook me up More...
Brian Werner, 45, faithfully attends Mass at either Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Barling or Sts. Sabina and Mary Church in Jenny Lind. In itself, it is not out of the ordinary. But for the better part of his adult life, the cradle Catholic was not active in his faith.
“I always had a relationship with God that never went away,” he said. “I just didn’t see the necessity to be in church all the More...
When a child is born, parents have a flood of hopes for their future — health, happiness, love, a successful career and maybe a family of their own one day. For many Catholic parents, those hopes are centered around the Catholic faith guiding each step of that child’s life.
There are many ways parents, along with the Church, can help guide their children to have a strong foundation of faith, as well as ways to cope More...
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