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Q: When I pray a petition, I can’t help feeling that if I pray for one person only, the prayer will be stronger or more effective than if I pray for 20 people at once. For example, is “Please help David” a stronger prayer than “Please help all my family”?
The majority of the healing encounters in the Gospels are initiated by the person who desires healing.
We often complain about what we don’t have, when Jesus points to our resources to make a difference in the world.
All excommunications are meant to be medicinal. They are a kind of shock therapy intended to make sinners aware of the seriousness of their sin and their spiritual condition and call them to conversion.
Saint Francis of Assisi famously said, “Let us begin again, for up to now we have done nothing.” Each day is a new start to make a difference in the world around you, to soak up God’s mercy and love for you, and to try again to be the best version of yourself for the Lord.
Eleven years into this ministry, Sister Norma sees the same stumbling blocks that seem to prevent us from seeing migrants with eyes of compassion and having a fruitful, heart-driven dialogue about immigration.
The Book of Blessings directs that the blessing should not be given unless those who live in the home are present—you don’t just bless empty living quarters.
Reflect One of the saddest realizations of our current culture is how polarized we Americans have become—politics, faith, how we treat people different than us.
As the 2024 election draws closer and tempers flare, let us pray that the message above from St. Paul
Will we see our pets and other creatures in the next life? Only God can answer a question like this.
