Even people who don’t follow sports have heard of Tim Tebow. Many have seen a picture of him kneeling on a football field in an attitude of prayer. Some ridicule him. Others admire him. We don’t know the content of his prayer, but we can be sure he is not expecting God to intervene and direct an errant...
Some may find in our litanies a helpful source of prayer. Not only can we pray a litany straight through, but we can just pick out one or the other invocation to open our hearts to God. In the litany of the Sacred Heart, for instance, we might pick out “Burning furnace of charity.” The image of Jesus’...
A marvelous beginning: “I love….” Only one other psalm begins with these words—Psalm 116. They bespeak an open heart, a joyful appreciation of God’s goodness. They are the main reason I was first attracted to this psalm. I have since found many more attractive traits. Three levels I find in...
My own take on golf is expressed in the statement: “It’s a terrible way to ruin a good walk.” But my brother-in-law tells me that when he gets on the golf course and takes his first swing, he forgets all his worries and troubles.
Maybe that is what prayer can be.
With the first nudge of the Holy...
Many years ago, Raul Plus SJ, wrote a book called Radiating Christ. In recent years it has been reissued. I do not remember any individual statement from that book, but it strikes me that the very title is a fine summary of spirituality.
In my community at St. Francis Seraph Friary, there are 10 confreres...
