Understand All Saints and All Souls, with gentle ways to pray for someone who has died, remember their name and use a rosary or Anglican prayer beads.

Learn how to pray a St Jude novena, who the saint was, and how nine days of prayer can support hope and care for someone facing difficulty.

Discover Teresa of Ávila’s approach to prayer as friendship with God, with a simple five-minute practice rooted in attention, ordinary life and handmade devotion.

An autumn garden can look untidy to us and generous to almost everything else. Saint Francis helps us see the difference.

Padre Pio was a Capuchin Franciscan whose extraordinary reputation grew from an ordinary discipline of prayer. For his 23 September feast, we reflect on the rosary, service and the holiness of faithfully showing up.

What can one hive inspection teach us about attention, responsibility and control? A beekeeper reflects on creation through Saint Francis.

Saint Francis loved creation—but he also embraced poverty, approached people others avoided and crossed a war line in search of peace.

The Peace Chaplet is a simple Catholic devotion formed around seven Our Fathers, seven Hail Marys and seven Glory Bes. Here is its history, meaning and complete prayer pattern.

Saint Francis lived before the division between England and Rome. Discover why Catholics and Anglicans honour him—and how their prayer differs.

Discover the biblical history of the Tau cross, why Saint Francis adopted it as his sign, and what this simple Franciscan cross means today.

On 3 October 2026, Franciscans will mark 800 years since Saint Francis’s Transitus. Discover its meaning and gentle ways to prepare.

Wearing an Iona rosary opened unexpected conversations about prayer, repetition and faith. A short reflection on visible devotion.

Discover what Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Hildegard, Faustina and Catherine of Siena teach us about prayer, trust, mercy and action.

Discover Saint Melangell, the Celtic patron saint of hares, and her enduring story of sanctuary, compassion and gentle prayer in Wales.

Discover Saint Hildegard of Bingen, her mystical visions, healing herbs, sacred music and the greening power of God known as viriditas.

Discover an A to Z of Celtic saints from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, with stories of prayer, pilgrimage, healing and faith.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on 16 July, a feast day loved by many Catholics because of its connection with Mary, the Carmelite tradition, the Brown Scapular and quiet devotional prayer.

Saint Dymphna is known as the patron saint of mental health, anxiety and emotional distress. This gentle guide explores her Irish story, her link with Geel in Belgium, and why Catholics still turn to her for courage, refuge and prayer.

Choosing a Marian rosary as a gift can feel deeply personal. A rosary is not only a beautiful Catholic object. It is something made to be held, prayed with, carried, remembered and returned to over time.

Iona: an island in a wider Celtic Christian story Iona is a small island with a deep Christian memory. Its story belongs not only to Scotland, but to the sea roads between Ireland, the Hebrides, monastic communities, pilgrims, makers and the wider Celtic diaspora. Iona is often spoken of as one of Scotland’s most sacred Christian places. That is true, but it is not the whole story. Iona also belongs to the sea. Its Christian memory flows across the water between Ireland and S