Tag: Prayer

Pope Leo XIV's September prayer intention is "for the care of water" as Christians celebrate the Season of Creation.

Did Jews at the time of Christ pray at set hours, and how did that practice shape the prayer of the early church?

How our moments of frustration can become moments of prayer for strangers. 

In a world where attention has become a commodity, Eucharistic adoration offers something radically different: the experience of being truly seen. Rachael Ndaira reflects on how gazing upon Christ in the Eucharist teaches us to pay deeper attention to God and to one another.

Going to Mass can easily become routine, but Mass is the source and summit of the Christian life and draws us into deeper union with God. If we can bring to it greater attention and devotion it can transform our spiritual lives.

By contemplating Christ’s face, especially in his suffering, we recognise the seriousness of sin and the depths of divine mercy and we are called to imitate his humility and charity. To contemplate the face of Christ is to enter into deeper communion with him.

A mother reflects on how the demands of daily life can dull the soul—and how prayer and the Eucharist restore joy and strength. In the midst of ordinary tasks, she discovers the need to “sharpen” her spiritual life.

Simcha recounts her latest experience losing her phone and what she learned along the way - how much do you use your phone and how does it take you away from God?

If you pray aspirations while doomscrolling, you’ll pray more, which will open up unsuspected horizons for your spiritual life, and you’ll doomscroll less. Which is probably not a bad thing.  

True prayer requires more than good intentions. It calls for discipline, silence and a turning away from the noise of daily life.

Prayer is a lifting up of the soul to God by which we come into contact with the Blessed Trinity living within us. It begins in the quiet interior conversation we have with ourselves and ends in God. Attentive, humble and faithful prayer slowly transforms the soul, drawing it, as St Teresa of Avila teaches us, into ever-deepening friendship with Christ.

The Stations of the Cross can be simple, no fuss, and utterly harrowing, says Philippa Martyr