The Family Room (The Quest)

Sara Sullivan and Kristine Bruce met by phone one day in 2021 to discuss Kristine’s apostolic initiative called “Praying for Our Prodigals.” In the conversation, they shared their love of prayer, especially praying the holy rosary for special intentions. This episode is about how efficacious our prayers and redemptive sufferings are for those we love who are away in some way from the Faith. Sara is an adult convert to Catholicism. (She was 33 the first time she celebrated the Sacrament of Reconciliation and made her First Holy Communion. She was baptized as an infant in a Methodist church.) Sara shares some of her conversion story, and Kristine shares the providential way God put the “Praying for our Prodigals” apostolate on her heart, and then, out into this hurting world, a world so in need of prayer, self-sacrifice, and God’s merciful graces. Fasting is touched on in a beautiful way.

Resources

• Join Kristine Bruce and others in praying the rosary every Wednesday for prodigals

• The rosary is a spiritual weapon. Read Father Calloway’s book, Champions of the Rosary: The History and Heroes of a Spiritual Weapon

• What are the steps to becoming Catholic? Sara entered Mother Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). The USCCB webpage, Christian Initiative of Adults is excellent.

• Delve into the power of fasting with this blog post from The Catholic Gentleman

Key Scripture

• Psalm 16:11, “You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever.”