Catholic prayer
When I Am Lost…
I’ve always loved a good mystery. There’s a sense of adventure in not always knowing what’s in store for me.
Is ‘Offering It Up’ Still Valid?
I have trouble dealing with the concept of God accepting pain or illness as payment for some kind of wrongdoing. Jesus did it, but he is God. Is my friend correct? Am I?
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St. Francis Encounters the Crucified Christ
The Franciscan path to God is an inversion of monastic values. Rather than fleeing the world to find God, God is to be found in the world. The idea that “the world is our cloister” finds its root in Francis ...
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Prayer Is Never Ours
Perhaps the most beautiful truth about prayer is that it is never really ours.
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‘Your Heart Is to Be an Altar of God’
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.”
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Go Forth and Share the Good News
God’s love and mercy is revealed in Jesus breathing forth the Spirit of love and forgiveness upon his disciples.
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Pray at All Times
Without prayer, we run the risk of forgetting who we have become, and slowly we begin to feel as if God is distant and uninterested.
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