It is Friday, for many of us the end of our work week and the start of the weekend…for others our work is just beginning. […]

It is hard to believe that I have reached the halfway point in this week! I thank God for strength and inspiration and you, who […]

It is so nice to be able to share this time with you. So far this week, we’ve been talking about prayer and some of […]

Good Morning everyone. Our next story about prayer is, again, taken from Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditations by Anthony de Mello, S.J. This […]

When trying to come up with a theme for this week, I came across a book on my shelf called Taking Flight: A Book of […]

Prayer is the natural response of people who know their place in the universe, It is not designed to be a psychological comfort zone, though, […]

A portion of St. Patrick’s Breastplate…. Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win […]

All things come from you, O God, and to you we return. All things emerge in your great river of life and into you we […]

“John 20:16 recounts the encounter between Jesus and Mary of Magdala, two people who love each other. Jesus says, “Mary.” She recognizes him and says, […]

For the freshness of this new day, thanks be to God. Blessed are those who know their need for theirs is the grace of heaven. […]

Acts 2: 1-3 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly from heaven there came a sound […]

Daniel 3: 27-28a And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s counsellors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any […]

Isaiah 42: 2-4 He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not […]

Job 40: 3-5 Then Job answered the LORD: “See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my […]

Psalm 89: 3-4 You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to my servant David: ‘I will establish your […]

Deuteronomy 29:2 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of […]

Genesis 1:28: God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over […]

Sometimes when I pray, something opens that I have no words for. Something that resists all my efforts to name it. As daily I look […]

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with […]

“The old pond. A frog jumps in. The sound of water.” Reading Basho again today. He lived a turbulent life, this master of Japanese haiku. […]