5 Replies to Questions About Catholic (and Biblical) Prayer
‘Prayer is Christian insofar as it is communion with Christ and extends throughout the Church, which is his Body. Its dimensions are those of Christ's love.’ (CCC 2565)
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The Most Important Conversation in Marriage Is Prayer
COMMENTARY: The only way to give our spouse and children the best — which is Jesus himself loving them through us — is to deepen our interior life through the commitment to daily prayer.
Let the Holy Spirit Form You in the Life of Prayer
‘The Holy Spirit who teaches the Church and recalls to her all that Jesus said also instructs her in the life of prayer, inspiring new expressions of the same basic forms of prayer: blessing, petition, intercession, thanksgiving, and praise.’ (CCC 2644)
Pope Francis: Prayer Is Medicine for the Weary Soul
‘We need time dedicated to God,’ the Holy Father said Oct. 16, when ‘we open our hearts to him so that he can daily pour out on us love, peace, joy, strength, hope, thus nourishing our faith.’
Pope Francis: The First Element of Discernment is Prayer
Meeting the Lord in prayer should produce joy, not fear or sadness, which are signs of distance from him.
Praying to Our Father Who Art in Heaven
‘Blessed is the man who goes to sleep under the protection of that outpost, the outpost of those three or four words.’ —Charles Peguy
Spontaneous Prayer, the Tuxedo and the Ball
COMMENTARY: Liturgical Christianity has given me everything my heart had longed for in prayer.
All About Mary and Martha: The Priority of Personal Prayer
User’s Guide to Sunday, July 17
