June 9, 2025

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The Quiet Heart of Prayer

June 9, 2025
Many years ago, a priest gave me advice in confession that ruffles my feathers. He told me that I did too much talking to God—and that I needed to shut up and learn to listen better.
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St. Anthony, Our Teacher

June 9, 2025
In canonizing Anthony in 1232, Pope Gregory IX spoke of him as the “Ark of the Testament” and the “Repository of Holy Scripture.”
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Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile as he prepares to lead a Pentecost prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 7, 2025, with participants in the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations and New Communities. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Holy Spirit fosters unity, peace, justice, pope says at Pentecost vigil

June 9, 2025
On the eve of Pentecost, Pope Leo XIV prayed that the Holy Spirit would help Catholic lay associations, movements and communities live the Gospel before trying to preach it and would be a force for unity in the church and in the ...
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St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Peace

June 9, 2025
St. Anthony’s peaceful way of being still impresses after 800 years.
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