This informative resource by Mike Aquilina and Regis Flaherty has been around for a long time and we can see why: it demonstrates in an easy-to-read and no-nonsense way the breadth and the diversity of Catholic devotional life. Here are a few practices that are covered:
• Praying the Sign of the Cross
• Praying the Angelus
• Praying the Rosary
• Going to Confession
• Using Holy Water
• Making a Novena
• Praying the Stations of the Cross
• Using a Vigil Candle
• Beginning Spiritual Direction
• Making a Consecration
Aquilina and Flaherty provide step-by-step guidelines to these devotional rites and rituals of the Catholic faith. They use quotations to supplement the material, and they also reveal the blessings and graces accruing from these practices.
