Prayer
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“If we don’t pray, we remain attached to earthly things, we become small like them, we get pressured by them, we sell ourselves to them — because we give our love and our heart to them. “We must pray!” — Karl Rahner, Why We Need to Pray Read more
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The Lord seems to have increased my burden in prayer for the American Church. I ran across this prayer (in part) this morning: Revive your Church, Lord God of hosts, whenever it falls into complacency and sloth, by raising up devoted leaders… and grant that their faith and vigor of mind may awaken your people… Read more
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Gracious Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in want, provide for it;… Read more
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My thoughts got a bit long (and can go longer) on our current spiritual situation. I put an extended thought HERE. Read more
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Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever… Read more
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Matthew 17:14-21 Verse 16 — “And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” Read more
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Do you have particular passages of Scripture where you read them over and over, or come to them regularly on a reading schedule, and you are reminded of when God spoke to you in that passage? There are a few passages that are radically life-changing for me. They are passages where in that holy moment something… Read more
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What is it to “pray without ceasing”? (1 Thess. 5:17) Hans Urs von Balthasar in his book Engagement with God gives us this thought from Origen: Read more
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A prayer for today captured me in light of the horrifying news the past few days of how we are treating children in this political war over immigration. Here is part of that prayer: Let your way be known upon earth; Your saving health among all nations. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;… Read more
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I had to share this passage: “OUR PRAYERS ARE honored beyond anything we imagine here on earth. They break through the time barrier to join the eternal worship. Angels bring them before God with reverence and tenderness. The prayers of the faithful are placed upon the altar. At long last those noiseless cries for justice… Read more
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