Miracle Of St. Nicholas Prayer/Spirituality worthy of all our imagination

worthy of all our imagination and of all our daring

and from Rituale Romanum on the "The Rite of Blessing and Sprinkling Holy Water on Sundays"

to encourage them on the field of spiritual combat and to draw them higher in the practice of Christian virtues

Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary

confusing both aspirants and spiritual directors

Miracle Of St. Nicholas Prayer/Spirituality worthy of all our imaginationillustrated by Judith Brown It was the day before Christmas in a small Russian village. Alexi's babushka was telling him what Christmas was like when she was a girl before the soldiers came. "Our church was as crowded as a pod full of peas. Candles made the church as bright as the sunniest day. Watching over us was the blessed icon of St. Nicholas." And so unfolds a story that poignantly reveals how, though quiet and hidden, faith and hope cannot be