John-Paul Deddens is the founder of Pray More Novenas, an online prayer ministry that has helped Catholics around the world discover the beauty of praying novenas. He and his wife, Annie, met after she prayed a novena to St. Anne, and novena prayer has been woven through their life and ministry ever since.
For more than a decade, the Deddens have played a part in a wider resurgence of novena prayer, and their ministry also offers online retreats for Advent and Lent. For Ascension, John-Paul and Annie co-authored the Pocket Guide to Novenas, a compact collection of twenty novenas — most of them newly written — with guidance on where novenas come from and how to pray them.
