Category: Prayer
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Pray for the Council of Cardinals
This week begins a third meeting between the Pope and the Council of Cardinals. Pray for God’s love to fill their hearts and for His guidance to enlighten their discernment on key reform issues facing the church. Read more here: With reforms unclear, Francis starts possible bellwether week | National Catholic Reporter.
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My Enemy, My Love
This article from John Martens writing in America Magazine is an answer to a recent prayer. In his discussion of loving our enemies, he concludes: It is this desire (for perfect love), grounded in the longing to be holy as God is holy, that allows us to rise above our feelings for vengeance, feelings which…
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Another Miracle Especially For Us – God Found Under a Chair!
God Found Under a Chair!. Enjoy this wonder-filled miracle from Lessons By Heart.
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7 Steps For Sharing Our Decisions With God
Becky Eldredge over at the dotMagis blog for Ignatian Spirituality wrote a few months back of her experience in deciding between two possible places for her and her husband to move to and make their new home. For the past year, my husband and I have been discerning our future steps after my husband’s graduate…
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Meditation 13 – Seeing God in others, seeing good in others
Are you resolved to avoid that occasion of sin, to give up the object which leads you astray – not to read that book, which excites your imagination; to withdraw your friendship from that person who is irreligious, and whose presence disturbs the peace of your soul? Will you go at once and be kind…
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Reflecting God’s Divinity
I’ve tried to find words to express the tremendous tsunami of emotions and joy that I have experienced since reading Fr. Martin’s book “The Jesuit’s Guide to (Almost) Everything,” earlier last year. Similar to one’s experience of God, I think, my comprehension of its significance has taken — will take — time to fully appreciate.…
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Meditation 10 – Make me worthy to be called a friend
Are there about you friends who seem less kind than formerly, who neglect you through indifference or forgetfulness, without your having consciously done anything to wound them? Pray for them, and I will restore them to you, if their companionship is good for you. For me this might just as easily read, ‘Are there about…
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Meditation 9 – What we ask in faith, God provides
Do you dread something painful? Is there in your soul a vague fear, which seems unreasonable, and yet torments you? Trust fully in My providence. I am here, I see everything; I will not leave you. I’m such a weenie! I’m still concerned about that dinner party. It’s tomorrow night and it has me losing…
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Meditation 8 – Forgive, forget, move on, be blessed
Have you nothing to annoy you? My child, tell Me your annoyances, with every detail. Who has pained you? Who has wounded your self-love? Who has treated you contemptuously? Tell Me all, and then say that you forgive and forget; and I will give you My blessing. We’ve just rounded the half-way mark in our…
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Will You Come and Follow Me
This is re-blogged from Keeping Company and Teilhard de Chardin. A possible answer to my prayer request, below? Video: The Summons.
Walking With My Brother 