When I was a child, I thought I was the luckiest kid in the world because I got four lullabies sung to me every night, one each from my mother, father, sister and brother. I can still hear their voices – soprano, alto, tenor and bass – singing my favorite songs. To be loved like that, so specifically and tenderly, night after night, year after year, was one of the strongest shaping influences from my childhood. But it wasn’t until I started singing lullabies to my own children that
During his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI said that there was one prayer that he wished all Catholics would learn to use. Can you guess what it is?
Not the rosary. Not the Divine Mercy Chaplet, either.