Prayer Articles
by Michele Frankeni
You can’t ask that
In honour of the second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly to be held on 24 July (the fourth Sunday of July), we revisit...
Prayer everywhere
There are no constraints on when, where or how we pray. It is in Matthew’s Gospel (6:6-16) that Jesus teaches about prayer. He calls out...
Prayer for St Therese of Lisieux (1 October)
This prayer is to be done in a group setting and the process is based on that used by the Christian Life Community, an Ignatian...
Praying for the sick
The feast day for St Bernadette, the patron saint of illness is 16 April. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage communities we pray for...
Year of St Joseph
Pope Francis, to mark the 150th anniversary of the declaration of St Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, has dedicated most of this year...
November’s two important feasts
November begins with two important feast days –All Saints Day on 1 November and All Souls Day on 2 November. Pope Francis has said that...
International Women’s Day prayer rite
Hymns, readings, reflection and prayers of intercession for International Women’s Day on 8 March. HYMNS: Gather Us In, Marty Haugen; God has Chosen Me, Bernadette...
Beauty in woundedness
As a Vietnamese-American Jesuit who teaches at Seattle University, Trung Pham uses his art to express the emotions of never fully belonging. When Jesuit Trung...