Are you in need of a spiritual boost..... a "pick me up from the pew"?  Join fellow parishioners every Christmas and winter in our Parish Book Program!

The Parish Book Program is designed to reconnect men, women, and families within our faith community - to help engage Catholics and reinvigorate parish life.  According to research, each year only 1% of Catholics in America read a Catholic book. Each Christmas, as we share the joy of the Birth of our Lord, we can share the gift of knowledge and, at the same time, share our Catholic Faith!

Each year, every family who attends Mass on Christmas will receive a complimentary copy of a great Catholic book.  The title will be carefully selected to meet people where they are and lead them to where God is calling them to be, especially in light of our yearly Faith Formation theme.  Following the distribution of books, study groups will be formed to discuss the book.
 

2021 Parish Book Program - The 15-Minute Prayer Solution, by Gary Jansen

"I don’t have time to pray."

"I don’t know how to pray."

"I don’t know what to pray for."

Perhaps you identify with one or all of these statements; most people do. But with Gary Jansen’s The 15-Minute Prayer Solution, anyone can learn to turn those “I don’t” statements into “I do” declarations— and be transformed in the process.

Drawing on spiritual practices from the Christian tradition throughout the centuries, Jansen offers numerous and wide-ranging prayer exercises that can be completed in less than fifteen minutes. The Jesus Prayer, lectio divina, the Examen, imaginative prayer, and many more ways to joyfully encounter the Living God are explained. Deeply personal stories, thought provoking modern-day parables, and even humorous anecdotes bring spiritual ideas down to earth, revealing the practical side of prayer.

And, as Jansen himself discovered, if you’re willing to take just fifteen minutes a day to pray, you may soon find that the entirety of your life has become a prayer, a relentless desire to place God at the center of everything.

Take this opportunity in our Saint Pius "Year of Prayer" to grow in your relationship with the Lord!

Copies of The 15-Minute Prayer Solution will be available beginning at the Christmas Masses. 

Tentative 2021 Dates 

Saturday, January 9, 10:30 a.m.:  Host Training
Saturday, January 16/Sunday, January 17:  Parish-wide kick-off
Jan 17-23:  Read Chapters 1-4 (pp. 1-53)
Jan 24-30:  Week 1 Small Group Gatherings: for Week 2, read Chapters 5-8 (pp. 55-84) + Tugwell reading in Participant Manual
Jan 31-Feb 6:  Week 2 Small Group Gatherings: for Week 3, read Chapter 9-11 (pp. 85-102) + Matthew reading in Participant Manual
Feb 7-13:  Week 3 Small Group Gatherings: for Week 4, read Chapters 12-14 (pp. 103-118) + Boulding reading in Participant Manual 
Feb 14-20:  Week 4 Small Group Gatherings, for Week 5, read Chapters 15-18 (pp. 119-140) + Kreeft reading in Participant Manual
Feb 21-27:  Week 5 Small Group Gatherings: for Week 6, read and pray over 1 chapter every day from Chapters 19-25 (pp. 141-175)
Feb 28-Mar 6: Week 6 Small Group Gatherings
TBD: Wrap-up Prayer Session and Talk

Register below!