The way of return, to God's beautiful intention, is by way of holiness, found only in Christ. Listen - listen for your call, your vocation from God! You may hear His invitation to personal consecration in Christ, committed to holiness in Him, to remaining in communion with Him, and with all who are in Him, in loving solidarity with every created human person... and in earnest devotion to prayer and reparation - in particular, through the precious gift of prayer, the Our Father.

Persons of Consecration, Reparation, Prayer and Renewal Genuine renewal in the Church will not come through careless or indifferent hearts - persons who hold the name of the Church, but do not love the living Faith or strive for His Truth. Renewal will come through persons of consecration, devotion and reparation, who give themselves to Him. We need to draw close to Him in prayer - heart to Sacred Heart. We need to grow to love Him as He deserves, to discover and embrace His consecration. The prayer He gave us, the Our Father, can teach us to pray and can lead us into consecration, devotion and reparation. Reparation is an invisible, spiritual work of repair, of restoration, of rebuilding, of cleansing and of renewal. Reparation is owed in justice, for the damages and insults of sin. Reparation is a work of sacrificial love, following the example of Jesus. Reparation is a silent and hidden apostolate, seeking and receiving no praise of men, trusting only in the Father who sees in secret and rewards in secret. Reparation is an apostolate open to all, and especially to the ordinary. The most common and ordinary of human works can be offered to God in a loving gesture of reparation, and are received in love. The most ordinary of persons, in the most ordinary of lives, can offer in prayer to God the most ordinary of moments - yet in the transforming power and light of love - unto holy reparation in union with the Cross of Jesus. There is no suffering that God permits to us too great or too small that we cannot unite with His holy sufferings on the Cross. Reparation is a work of love, our common vocation. Reparation is a fruit of prayer along the ordinary path to holiness, our universal call. Every age presents its own challenges, and opportunities, to the Christians of its time. Certainly this age with its entrenched secularism and materialism, its consumerism and hedonism, presents the Church with challenge! Many persons outside of the Church, and even some within her, are hungry for a more substantial food, and are thirsty for a deeper truth, than they have yet known. Christ is that truth and that food - and yet many, in an increasingly "post-Christian" culture, remain ignorant of Him who is so close to them. The Church is sent to such people! The Church is entrusted with that very Gift that the world so desperately craves, and needs. Many within the Church are weak also, and hardly know for themselves the Gospel they were sent to share with others. Many in the Church receive the holy sacraments of Christ, but fail to hold on to His grace when the church service is over. Many do not really know the doctrines of the Church; many have compromised the Christian moral imperatives. Many in the Church do not have that personal communion with Christ that is prayer. The world needs Christ and His truth! Christ has entrusted His Gospel, and His ministry, to the Church - and the Church needs renewal. The book, The Ordinary Path to Holiness, is offered to pass on to the Church a treasure almost forgotten: traditional Catholic spirituality. True and lasting renewal in the Church requires a solid foundation - authentic communion with the living Christ. We need, in the Church His Bride and His Body, persons of consecration and of prayer. Renewal in the Church requires persons consecrated to His life, and in communion with Him through a vital, authentic life of prayer. Consecrated persons of prayer among the laity, among our priests, among our deacons and religious and bishops - these will be the fertile ground out of which will come renewal. The book, The Interior Liturgy of the Our Father, is offered toward that work: renewal.