Prayer Articles
How do we create space for God in our lives?
Reflections from Catholics exploring our relationship with God through prayer.
The gift of difference
The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief on 22 August reminds us of the need to live...
Feast of the Assumption – a Catholic belief
The doctrine of Mary’s Assumption into heaven, celebrated on 15 August, reflects the long insistence on the importance of Mary in the Catholic Church. The...
Small businesses build better communities
Pope Francis’ August prayer intention for small and medium-sized businesses is once again a reminder of the need to nurture community. Pope Francis’ concern for...
Pray as you go slow
By Anne Rennie
Good prayer happens when we surrender the time to it. The first prayer of my day is to thank God that I’m alive to hear...
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...
The work of prayer
Prayer is an investment in a relationship and requires commitment time, listening and caring. ‘I’ve always believed in grace’ I stated at the end of...
Places of faith
Churches, old and new, are central to our community and personal faith. The doors of the small Victorian church are small but solid. They have stood...
In the presence of God
The aim is to develop a personal prayer life to such an extent that whatever you are doing or wherever you are, you are praying....
Valuable lessons
A society that does not appreciate the value of its elderly is an impoverished society. The way in which a society treats children, the chronically...
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...
Celebrating Christ’s presence
The feast of Corpus Christi celebrates Christ’s gift of the Eucharist. Corpus Christi focuses on Christ’s presence under the form of bread and wine. This focus...
Unconditional love spreads
Nothing commends our faith better than the generous and expansive love that we bring to our friends, workplaces and the groups of which we are...
The wholeness of prayer
Prayer makes our lives complete. It adds colour and is its own reward. Anyone who prays knows that prayer is messy. Yet we dream of...
Prayer has many faces
Thankfully there is nothing complicated about prayer. It is simply an encounter between ourselves and God. When I was a young Jesuit in training, there...
Jesus with us
An association with the Jewish feast of God’s giving the Law through Moses makes it clear that the Ascension of Jesus is about presence, not...