We are God’s children. One of the things he teaches us is how to pray.
This attitude erupts into prayer. If we've lost it, there's a rather simple way to get it back.
The human capacity to attend to things, says Jordan Peterson, is in some sense the highest psychological function
Our ability to turn toward God in loving stillness is a gift that "comes forth direct from the deepest heart of God himself"
It almost seems too simple. But that is by God’s loving design.
"Have no fear of either your misery or your powerlessness, for I know well how to vanquish them."
Have you noted this surprising line in the Catechism? God wills to make humans holy, but not as individuals ...
We’re convinced we need something that goes beyond what the world and all things finite can provide. And prayer is the most reasonable way to come face to face with that mystery ...
After confessing our sins, we are often given prayer as penance. Here's how that works.
One cannot always meditate, but one can always enter into inner prayer, independently of the conditions of health, work, or emotional state.
Even amidst our excessively hectic and distracted lives, we are called to this prayer. And God won't refuse it to those who ask.
“Prayer is too often reduced to hard and fast rules, is mapped out and labelled and regimented till it hardly seems at all to be the language of the heart.”
“By this short and sure means I advanced in the knowledge of God with whom I resolved to remain forever.”
Two of the greatest temptations we struggle with are being tormented by the hurts of the past and, conversely, fretting about the future. Prayer opens us to now.
The gift that Jesus desires you to give him at this moment — no matter how mortified and miserable you may be — is the gift of yourself, just the way you are right now.
If you, Lord, look upon me for an instant, I am at once made strong and filled with new joy.
Prayer is of the heart for the heart is the place of encounter
