Tag: prayer

Touching on an incident where a priest hearing confessions was pepper-sprayed, a recent article from OSV News looked at how clergy and layfolk might...

Living liturgically means approaching Lent as a built-in annual retreat. For most Catholics, that takes a time-tested and traditional shape. Prayer, fasting and almsgiving...

Q: When I was Evangelical, we were told Jesus wanted to heal us, every time; we need only ask “in his name.” If we...

“The Lord must love you very much,” a wise friend recently encouraged me. I’d just shared with her that a close relative of mine was...

For love of the house of the Lord I will ask for your good. -- Ps 122:9 Sometimes Jesus' words are so familiar to us we...

Q: What happened to Limbo? (Sacramento, Cal.) A: Traditionally, limbo was thought of as a “place” in the afterlife that was neither heaven nor purgatory,...

Throughout the seasons and feasts of the liturgical year, the church pauses to give special honor to Mary, mother of Jesus, the son of...

"Lord, now let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled." Thus begins the Canticle of Simeon, the prayer drawn from the words...

On July 9, 2019, my parents celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary, and my mom was diagnosed with cancer. I was in Washington, nearing the end...

If there is a universal concern among people of faith, it comes with phrases like, "I wish I could pray better" or "I don't...