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Catholic prayer books
Prayers for when the words won't come
I write Catholic prayer books for the moments when people most need to talk to God and least know how to begin: the day of a diagnosis, a night in hospital, the chair beside someone you love.
Catholic authorPrayer books for real moments
Trained in theologyQualified teacher of religion
First bookLet Go into Love, Out November 2026
About Thomas
Ready words for the hard hours
I grew up in a Catholic family, with an uncle who is a priest. I went to a Benedictine school, studied theology at a theological college and qualified as a teacher of religion.
What I see is how many people want to pray and don't know how to start, and it's hardest at the moments that matter: the phone call, the waiting room, the night nobody sleeps. So I write the prayers down. They're short and plain, and you can say them out loud when your own words have run out.
The first book
Out November 2026
Let Go into Love
A 90-Day Catholic Companion for Cancer Patients and the People Who Care for Them
Thirty short pages for the hardest days, each one for a single moment: the day of the news, the first night, the infusion chair. Then ninety days of Scripture and prayer, one page a day, twelve Gospel stories over twelve weeks. At the back, the prayers. Every page has a line for the person sitting beside the bed.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God's love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 8:38–39 · World English Bible
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Nine days with Saint Leopold
A novena from Let Go into Love, free as a PDF. Nine pages, one for each day, each with a moment from the life of Saint Leopold Mandić, the Capuchin confessor of Padua who was confirmed in 2020 as patron of people with cancer in Italy.