Let Us Pray

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Interceding for One Another

Years ago, when any of my four children would run crying to me because of an injury or a fight, there was a good likelihood that I could make things better.

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Pray as You Are

God calls each one of us to accept and live out the unique task he has entrusted to us.
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People in Raeford, N.C., pray after viewing the body of George Floyd June 6, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minnesota was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital.(CNS photo/Jonathan Drake, Reuters) See FLOYD-PROTESTS-HOMILIES-ROUNDUP June 8, 2020.

Defiantly Catholic

Our Church is God’s Church, and we belong to God. Church is the place we go to nurture our faith. It is where we go to be community.
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Presence and Surrender

As I gave our son his nightly bath, my wife, Lauren (who I call La La), showered in the other bathroom. It dawned on me: Is this the only time she gets to herself each day? Those 15 minutes in ...
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New Beginnings

God encounters our season of pain and brings forth healing and new life.
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The Living Body of Christ

We are, indeed, the living body of Christ, always becoming one in him who is our Lord and salvation.
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Live in Me, Love in Me, Act in Me

Etched on the back of my mother's headstone are three simple prayers: "Lord, live in me, love in me, and act in me. " Adapted from Clarence Enzler's Everyone's Way of the Cross, these prayers not only perfectly describe my ...
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