Category: Prayer
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A place of our own
If there’s one thing amiss here in this house, if there’s one little spot I have longed for — it’s that one obvious place where I can go to be with You. Just a corner of calm, where I am away from — at least off to the side of — the bustle of other…
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More worthy of You
Oh Lord, You are drawing me more and more deeplyinto the mysteries of the Holy Rosary andinto praying for our world.I pray that my prayers are pleasing to You andthrough them that I am drawnmore deeply into relationship with You,more worthy of You,more formed by You,more conformed to You,more pleasing to You,more worthy of You.In…
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The passion of our time.
When I heard of the Supreme Court’s decision adding sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, my first reaction was: All humans deserve the opportunity to seek employment free from discrimination. Yet, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles and president of USCCB lays…
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Feeling small in isolation
I’m feeling very little in this time, Lord, as though You in a holy chastisement have sent all us squabbling children Into a sort of global time-out, Restrictions, like when I was a child and someone else was in control of my life. I gave in back then to my parents authority. I wasn’t one…
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In this time, send us Your Peace
Good morning Father. As with the whole of the last week, You have blessed us here with clear skies and warm weather. These blessings have been appreciated by everyone in our community and all our neighbors who are clearing and cleaning up debris, recovering after the treacherous tornadoes that attacked our area. So much devastation.…
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The storm of our life
So many thanks to each of You who has thought to check in on us here in Nashville after the tremendous tornado that blew through our lives early Tuesday morning — super Tuesday 2020 will forever have a different meaning for us. We’re safe…now. But there are so many others — people who live just…
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Lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from the Evil One
Father, I pray that You protect me from the temptations of Satan, the evil one. Guide my path and give me such insight — Your sight — to see beyond my earthly desires. Help me to understand and long for Your heavenly desire for me. Help me to follow where You lead and to pitch…
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When I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied
What should I do, Holy Lord? How should I be, when I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied? 1. Turn around, retrace your steps, figure out where you lost your way, where you lost sight of My love for you.2. If you search and search to no avail, do as Mary and Joseph did when they lost…
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Divine anticipation
That feeling. That sense of excitement. Of an inexplicable, almost physical knowingness. Signaling something momentous is about to happen. Something extraordinary. I have naught to do but wait In the full incredulous knowledge that You are at work and About to reveal Yourself In my life, In the world, In Your perfect answer to prayer.…
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Love Song
Words don’t flow the same way, Father, when I speak to ones other than You. The point of my story is too easily lost, when I lose sight of You. And my purpose dims, when my eyes turn from You. I only want to write to You, Father, My Heart. My words are meaningless and…
Walking With My Brother 