Today, you use your cellphone to pray. Bring your cellphone with you. Find a quiet place. Settle yourself. 1. Remember that you are in God's presence. 2. Open your contacts list/address book. 3. Play the song below. 4. Pray for as many people as you can on your contacts list starting with those at the … Continue reading #31: Using Your Cellphone to Pray
#30: Angry Prayers
Angry Prayers Brendan Busse, SJ Everybody hurts. When I don’t have words to articulate my pain or frustration, I get crude. But crude is probably better than repressed. So I let ‘em rip: Damn it. Damn. Damn. Damn it. This is my psalm of lament: “God, damn it” (Psalms of Brendan – Book 1, verse … Continue reading #30: Angry Prayers
#29: Soon Love Soon
The grace I suggest that you ask for today is the grace to wait in joyful hope. It is a special grace we ask for at mass. It is a beautiful grace to ask for every day-- there is a kind of waiting that is impatient, that forces change, a kind of waiting where we … Continue reading #29: Soon Love Soon
#28: May I Remember
There is great hate in the world, but there is also great love in the world. Today we pray for love and the hope that the last word is not death, not hate, but love. Pray this slowly and out loud, letting the words roll in your mouth and pausing for words that strike you. … Continue reading #28: May I Remember
#27: Touched by an Angel
A Maya Angelou poem is prayer beautifully penned, the words are worship, life encapsulated into rhyme. This is a prayer for Valentines Day. Listen to the video, and read the poem yourself, letting the words take flight in your heart. And when you are ready, write down your reflections on love in your journal. Touched … Continue reading #27: Touched by an Angel
#26: Playing Dead
Playing Dead Joyce Rupp A large, green grasshopper, jumping like he's in the circus, moves before me on the path. I step nearer and touch him with my long stem of grass. He's suddenly silent. Not a breath of movement from him, like a little bump of green. "Clever," I say to myself, "neat way … Continue reading #26: Playing Dead
#25: Prayer of Thomas Merton
This is a good prayer for those who are lost and do not know their way. When you pray, you look for patterns-- patterns of consolation or desolation, patterns of happiness and sadness, patterns of clarity and confusion. These patterns help you track the trajectory your life is going. Today, I suggest you focus on … Continue reading #25: Prayer of Thomas Merton
#24: The Irish Blessing
Today we pray the Irish Blessing. The first part of the prayer is the most popular, but the succeeding parts are just as beautiful. It's something you say to people at weddings or before parting. But it's also good to pray with yourself as its object. I suggest you pray this aloud, letting the words … Continue reading #24: The Irish Blessing
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