The How-To Book of Catholic Devotions, Second Edition. Mike Aquilina

      

       The How-To Book of Catholic Devotions

       The How-To Book of Catholic Devotions

       Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You

       Second Edition

       Mike Aquilina and Regis J. Flaherty

      Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division

      Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.

      Huntington, Indiana 46750

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      Copyright © 2016 by Mike Aquilina and Regis J. Flaherty. Published 2016.

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      ISBN: 978-1-61278-965-1 (Inventory No. T1729)

      eISBN: 978-1-61278-971-2

      LCCN: 2015953312

      Cover design: Lindsey Riesen

      Cover art: Shutterstock

      Interior design: Dianne Nelson

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       Table of Contents

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       One: A Beginning

       1. A “Plan of Life”

       2. How to Pray

       Two: Catholic Prayers

       1. How to Pray the Sign of the Cross

       2. How to Pray the Basic Prayers: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be

       3. How to Make a Morning Offering

       4. How to Pray at Mealtimes

       5. How to Make an Act of Faith

       6. How to Make an Act of Hope

       7. How to Make an Act of Charity (Love)

       8. How to Pray the Jesus Prayer

       Three: A Tradition of Prayer

       1. How to Make a Prayer of Thanksgiving

       2. How to Read the Bible

       3. How to Practice “Mental Prayer”

       4. How to Meditate

       5. How to Pray an Aspiration

       6. How to Pray to the Saints

       7. How to Pray to Angels

       8. How to Observe First Fridays and First Saturdays

       9. How to Help the Dying

       10. How to Pray for the Dead

       Four: Praying with Mary

       1. How to Pray to Mary

       2. How to Pray the Rosary

       3. How to Pray the Angelus and Other Noonday Prayers

       Five: Penitential Devotions

       1. How to Examine Your Conscience

       2. How to Go to Confession (Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

       3. How to “Offer It Up”

       4. How to Fast

       5. How to Spend Your Fridays Like a Catholic

       6. How to Live Lent

       7. How to Make an Act of Contrition

       Six: Eucharistic Devotions

       1. How to Pray the Mass

       2. How to Make a Holy Hour

       3. How to Make a Eucharistic Visit

       4. How to Keep the Lord’s Day Holy

       Seven: Sacramentals and Blessings

       1. How to Pray with Sacred Images

       2. How to Make a Consecration

       3. How to Make a Pilgrimage to a Holy Place

       4. How to Pray a Novena

       5. How to Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet

       6. How to Pray the Stations of the Cross

       7. How to Use Holy Water

       8. How to Use a Vigil Candle

       9. How to Wear a Scapular

       10. How to Wear a Medal

       Eight: Living the Faith

       1. How to Keep the Presence of God