Tag: prayer
Negativity Not Only Stymies Your Life but Is Also Usually a Lie
Life on earth is a constant struggle to find our equilibrium. On our way to that balance, God sends us favors (as indications). Most are small. They add up. There are also the little admonishments. Some are not so little. Mostly we are punished by the lack of His Presence. When we abuse anything God… Read More ›
Couples Praying Together
Many Christian couples do not pray together. They often don’t realize the power and grace of simply sitting down together, regularly, holding hands, and praying from their hearts about the issues of life. They will pray by themselves, they will occasionally say traditional prayers. Facing each other, praying from their hearts, makes them feel uncomfortable…. Read More ›
Are You Loving Your Servitude Yet?
Aside from the political commentary, the following quotation is worth pondering on how we use, or are used, by technology. How do we send out spare time? How do we use our time on a daily basis? Is it really that important that we are right on top of the breaking news that we carry… Read More ›
Prayer for Religious Liberty
O God our Creator, Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit, you call us to live out our faith in the midst of the world, bringing the light and the saving truth of the Gospel to every corner of society. We ask you to bless us in our vigilance for the gift of… Read More ›
The meeting-place of angels, and the harbor of all Souls
(At the consecration of a monastic church dedicated to St. Macarius, the Coptic patriarch Benjamin I, 622-661, relates) When I had finished the divine service and communicated the clergy, I saw again a great grace which I must not hide from thee. For when the old men came up for communion, I saw a vapour… Read More ›
Fulfill what was asked for: Prayer and Penance
For many years — nearly from the onset of its release twelve years ago this week (on June 26, 2000) — there has been an undercurrent of skepticism about whether what the Vatican publicized as the “third secret” was the entire missive delivered by Sister Lucia dos Santos of Fatima, Portugal, who had received it,… Read More ›
Forget the nit-picking
There are times, in all of our walks with God, in Catholicism, when we have something to say. There may be a matter, at church, to be blunt, that we don’t much like. There may even be scandal. Sometimes, it’s just a personal preference. We may be agitated at the length of a homily. Or… Read More ›
Five Hard Truths That Will Set You Free
Some years ago I read an essay by the Franciscan Theologian Richard Rohr. I will say, (honestly) that I do not share a lot of agreement with Richard Rohr (no need to detail that here), but I found this particular essay compelling. I do not recall the exact title of that essay but in my… Read More ›
Fatima: Is Benedict the “Pope” Jacinta saw?
At Fatima was a quiet, largely unknown vision reported a while after the formal apparitions by the young girl, Blessed Jacinta Marto, who in her vision one day “saw” the Holy Father praying alone in a room while people outside “shouted ugly things and threw rocks through the window.” Another time, Jacinta saw a Pope… Read More ›
Don’t neglect your soul,
I found a respectable looking woman wandering about in the desert and I asked her what she was doing in that place. ‘Don’t ask me,’ she said. ‘I am a most unfortunate woman. Don’t ask why – but if you want a servant take me wherever you like. I am unlucky enough to have a… Read More ›