Tag: Prayer

For some time now I have had difficulty connecting with God in my prayer, as if he isn’t there for me or doesn’t care. I find him aloof. Is it possible that he can be aloof from us human beings, and what should I do in this situation?

Revisiting books about family life in the past is a nice reminder of just how good we middle-class Catholics have got it today. So join Philippa Martyr in thanksgiving for the blessings of our modern world.

Spiritual dryness and difficulty in prayer is a common challenge that many of us face. Fr Jacques Philippe and his Community of the Beatitudes is at the ready to help when we don’t know how to rekindle the love of prayer in our life.

Prayer is the cultivation in one’s heart of receptivity, openness and acceptance before the God who offers himself to us.

Blessed Estephan Nehme’s words were few yet filled with wisdom, reflecting a deep relationship with Christ, being focussed on words he had repeated since his childhood: “God sees me.”

A band of merry mothers has taken a leaf out of St Monica’s book, turning to prayer and our Lord to guide their children, themselves and their family.

Every person has memories of hurt inflicted, trauma endured, negligence and lack of love. Yet for God the past is no obstacle. Prayer is our way of redeeming and healing memory, and we can all join the Good Thief in asking God to be with us in two simple words: “Remember me.”

Since 1997, Our Lady of Fatima Kingsgrove parishioner John Deacon has walked the streets of his parish with a message, blessings and prayers for neighbouring homes.

Just as Olympics captivate viewers with feats of sporting achievement, Rosario and the Hozana Association are looking to inspire a deep relationship with Mary during this year’s games with their Rosary Olympics.

For the last decade Monica Doumit has kept up a little tradition when praying for vocations. This Vocations Awareness Week, have you got a special way to ask God to send more workers into the harvest?

Personal prayer is as necessary for our spiritual life as oxygen is for our bodies.

Madeleine Delbrêl was a French Catholic poet and mystic who founded a lay community devoted to living with and serving the poor during the Great Depression. Her key writings, published for the first time in English, reveal a startlingly contemporary call to discipleship and sanctity right for the ordinary person