Tonight, join Deacon Tom and Mary Jane Fox for a program on “The Necessity of Prayer.” Why do people pray? How to pray? Why am I so distracted during prayer? Does God hear all prayer? How did Jesus pray? These and your questions are answered at 8pm Central Time.

• TV: Catholic Television of San Antonio, Time Warner Cable Channel 15
• Radio: South Texas KJMA 89.7 FM
• Online: Guadalupe Radio Network, http://www.grnonline.com (Click “Listen Live”, then click the link for South TX.)

Email your questions to live@catholic.org and call us during the program: (210) 734-5371.

Saint of the Week: St. Bridget of Sweden (Stop by the Pilgrim Center of Hope on July 15 for a ladies’ Afternoon Tea with St. Bridget of Sweden at 2pm. More details here.)

Bridget’s feast day is July 23. Mother of eight children. Widow. Foundress of the Bridgettine order. Learn more here.

Pearl of the Week: In the School of the Holy Spirit by Jacques Philippe. Scepter Publishers, 2002. 90 pages. Ask for it at your local Catholic bookseller.

Purpose of the book:
- to describe simple and concrete ways to live docility to the Holy Spirit.
- How can the Spirit illuminate and strengthen our hearts?
- By being more attentive to the Spirit’s presence in us through Baptism, we learn to follow the inspirations that God places within us.

From the book:
“Prayer of praise purifies the heart.”
“There is no doubt that if we thank God with all our heart for each grace received, especially for the inspirations, he will grant us more.”

The Church invites us to invoke the Holy Spirit as the Interior Teacher of Christian prayer. (Catechism of the Catholic Church #2680)