Prayer

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Prayer Lifts Us Up

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

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Open to a Future in God

We are invited into relationship with God who loves us and is faithful to us even when the world around us seems to fail.
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On Hold

Have you ever made a call to a business or a doctor’s office and been placed on a very long hold? I know I have.
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Defining Prayer Anew 

And though you believe you hold no hope, you just bought three pears and are waiting for them to ripen in the bowl.
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God’s Self-Offering

The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...
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Control, Surrender, Loss

If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.
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Lent with Padre Pio: Good Friday

Padre Pio was investigated by the Vatican regarding his claims of the stigmata and many suggested that he was inflicting the wounds on himself.
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