Catholic prayer

Prayer lifts us out of the doldrums of mediocrity and complacency and draws us into the mystery of Christ.

The tension within each of us is not necessarily bad and is not sinful. Like our human emotions, the tension our longing causes is neutral.

Let’s speak Jesus’s name with tender love at every Hail Mary in the rosary.

Perhaps the most beautiful truth about prayer is that it is never really ours.

In writing to a Poor Clare, St. Bonaventure said, “Your heart is to be an altar of God. It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.”