Ralph Martin Blog Posts

Joyous Meetings in Rome

Joyous Meetings in Rome

by | Jun 30, 2025 | ,

Dear Friends, In the days leading up to the conclave, I published a YouTube video that offered some thoughts on it. You can view the video here. Now that Pope Leo XIV has been elected, let’s pray that God will use him to help the Church gather around the person of...

The Call to Holiness

The Call to Holiness

by | Apr 28, 2025 | ,

Holiness is not just a good idea or an optional extra. God commands each of us to be holy because He is holy (see Lv 11:44-45, 19:2, 20:7, 20:26). To be in union with Him, something must change in us. When Moses asks to see the Lord, God responds that “man shall not...

A Privilege to Serve, Reasons for Gratitude

A Privilege to Serve, Reasons for Gratitude

by | Mar 27, 2025 | ,

Dear Friends and Fellow Disciples, As usual, there is a lot going on—thanks be to God! So much great work for the kingdom is being made possible through your support! The class I taught during the fall semester at the seminary was perhaps my best class ever, both...

The Four Last Things

The Four Last Things

by | Feb 25, 2025 | ,

Pope John Paul II said the Church cannot omit, without serious mutilation of her essential message, a constant catechesis on man’s Four Last Things: death, judgment, hell, and heaven. Knowing what comes after this earthly life can guide us in it. Beyond the mysterious...

Honoring Fifty-One Years of Service

Honoring Fifty-One Years of Service

by | Jan 10, 2025 | ,

Dear Fellow Disciples, This marks the first month in fifty-one years that Gary Seromik, our office manager, chief administrator, finance person, and translator is not working for Renewal Ministries. He is retiring, and while we will miss him, we are grateful that he...

Launched into the Deep

Launched into the Deep

by | Dec 13, 2024 | ,

Let’s thank God! It’s been an amazing year with so many opportunities to help people come closer to Christ or come to Him for the first time. We carried out thirty-five separate missions this year to twenty-five different countries, where we were able to help...

On Mission in Ukraine

On Mission in Ukraine

by | Nov 1, 2024 | ,

Dear Coworkers in the Gospel, Once a year, we gather with our Country Coordinators, who are noble brothers and sisters who work with us around the world. At last year’s meeting, Andrzej Lewek, from Poland, asked if I would come to Ukraine to help strengthen the...

Finding Inspiration

Finding Inspiration

by | Oct 18, 2024 | ,

Dear Fellow Disciples, I am inspired by you. I am inspired by how many of you use our booklets or books to spread God’s Word to others. I am inspired by how many years many of you have been supporting our ministry. I am inspired by the notes you write and the stories...

On Mission in Uganda

On Mission in Uganda

by | Sep 7, 2024 | ,

Dear Partners in Evangelization, I am excited to share with you the amazing experience a group of us recently had during an almost two-week mission to Uganda. I was joined by Bishop Scott McCaig, of Canada’s Military Ordinariate, who is a long-time friend and member...

Thankful to Serve

Thankful to Serve

by | Jul 5, 2024 | ,

Dear Friends, Each day brings a new adventure, a new challenge, a new invitation, doesn’t it? What will the Lord place in my path today? How can I be alert to what God is giving me to do? What will the challenge of the day be? To resist temptation? To love? To...

Time to Lay it Down

Time to Lay it Down

by | Jun 6, 2022 | , , ,

The following post is condensed from a video on Renewal Ministries' YouTube channel. It is important to keep the big picture in mind as we make our way through troubling times. We must see the larger picture the Lord has prepared so that we can effectively cooperate...

A Letter from Ralph

A Letter from Ralph

by | Feb 8, 2022 | , ,

It is good for us to remember that it is Satan who inspired mankind’s original turning from God and continues to inspire the human race’s rebellion against God. At the same time, remember, friends, that it is the love of Christ that will help us overcome Satan’s deceptions if we simply stay connected to Christ!

Reply to Dr. Larry Chapp

Reply to Dr. Larry Chapp

by | Jun 18, 2021 | ,

A friend recently sent me a lengthy essay that Dr. Larry Chapp, a retired professor of theology, posted on his blog, which was later shared on various Facebook accounts. As I read it, I must admit that it came across as a rather emotional and hostile reaction to a...

A Church in Crisis: Where Do We Stand?

A Church in Crisis: Where Do We Stand?

by | Jun 14, 2021 | ,

This article originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' June 2020 newsletter and is taken from Ralph Martin’s talk at the recent Renewal Ministries’ Gathering. You can view the entire talk here. People are deeply troubled right now by what’s happening in the world and...

Embracing the Three Disciplines of Lent

Embracing the Three Disciplines of Lent

by | May 20, 2020 |

Dear Faithful Friends, Can you believe it? Lent is here! I must admit, for most of my life I’ve had mixed feelings about Lent—understanding it was “good for me,” but not really looking forward to the self-denial. This Lent is a little different, because the Lord has...

Is There Any Hope for Me?

by | Jul 20, 2018 |

Millions are asking, sometimes in groans too deep for words, is there any hope for me? Will my life ever be a success? Will I ever find real love, or ever love others truly? Is there really, after all this disappointment, sorrow, and tragedy, any hope of everything...

A New Pentecost: Why Now?

by | May 18, 2018 |

Pope John XXIII implored the whole Church to pray in preparation for the Council, asking God to send us a “new Pentecost,” and Benedict XVI called for the whole Church to pray for a renewal of Baptism and confirmation and be “baptized in the Spirit.” For more than 40...

Personal Prayer—Being Present Is Essential

by | May 4, 2018 |

  Prayer is simply the name that has traditionally been given to communication, or conversation, with God—it is awareness of Him, consciously being present to Him, and Him being present to us. Most of the laws we discover in the development of our human...

Avoiding a Lukewarm Path

by | Mar 9, 2018 | ,

The following is an excerpt from Ralph Martin's newly re-released booklet, "What Happens When I Die?" This may come as something of a surprise, but Scripture indicates that lukewarm Christians have a chance of being damned. I was surprised, even shocked, when I...

The Fruit of Fasting

by | Feb 9, 2018 | ,

All of us are praying for people—for healing, for conversion, for a good job, for a good marriage, for financial provision, and many other intentions as well! In my own life, I’ve often noticed an acceleration in answered prayer for specific intentions when I’ve added...

Guide to Personal Prayer

by | Jan 26, 2018 |

Many spiritual writers, including the saints, offer suggestions concerning methods on prayer. Francis de Sales, very much influenced by his own experience of St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, offers some suggested structures and formats for the practice of...

Growing in Freedom

by | Dec 15, 2017 |

[photo source] Everything that exists is a gift from God. Yet oftentimes we look to the things and creatures created by God for a satisfaction and fulfillment that only God Himself can provide. When the soul wraps itself around the things and the people of this world...

1977 Kansas City Prophecy

by | Mar 14, 2016 | ,

Prophecy given at Kansas City Charismatic Renewal Conference, 1977 | by Ralph Martin "Come before me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit for the body of my Son is broken. Come before me with tears and mourning for the body of my Son is broken. The light is dim,...

Habemus Papam!

by | Mar 20, 2013 |

Habemus Papam! Since the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope during the recent Conclave, I've received numerous inquires asking me what I think. Even though I do not know him personally, these first few days of Pope Francis' ministry certainly seem to...

Some Reflections on the Election Results

by | Dec 5, 2012 |

We've had a little time now to absorb the American election results and I know many of us are disappointed and tempted to discouragement. I know many of us tried to follow our Bishops' guidance and recognize that we can never vote to promote intrinsic evils such as...

Final Update from the Synod in Rome

by | Nov 3, 2012 |

The Synod ended yesterday with a beautiful closing Liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica that Pope Benedict XVI presided over. I was asked to announce the Glorious Mysteries of the rosary, in English, as the rosary was recited before Mass began, and do the first reading at...

Pope Benedict XVI honors Sr. Ann Shields

by | Jul 25, 2012 |

Dear Friends in Christ, We just learned that the Holy Father has awarded Sister Ann Shields the Benemerenti Medal in recognition for her service to the Church. News of the award was made by the Most Rev. Earl Boyea, Bishop of Lansing, on the Diocese of Lansing...

Final Rome Update

by | Jun 20, 2011 | ,

Through a Providential series of events I was able to defend my doctoral dissertation the evening before we needed to leave Rome. Thanks be to God. The defense went well. Mission accomplished. Back in the US. More later! Thanks for your prayers and support. The...

Rome Update #2 by Ralph Martin

by | Mar 7, 2011 |

Rome Update #2: March 6, 2011  Dear Friends,  Well. I kept waiting for things to slow down and they didn’t and my good intentions of sending more frequent updates hasn’t worked out, but today there’s a chance to write something.  It has almost been a month since my...

Rome Update from Ralph Martin

by | Feb 8, 2011 |

Dear Friends,  Well, it’s been 10 days since we arrived in Rome and it’s time for a little news. Because of the snow storms on the East Coast, our fight into New York, where we were to get our fight to Rome, was cancelled. We were able to get another flight going...

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