Whenever a soul knows it’s loved, it wants to stay and flourish in the love that’s given. When we talk about prayer, we’re talking about being in the presence of the God who loves us. The soul, ...

I suppose I learned to pray like many people in the mainline church do: I memorized prayers for mealtime and bedtime, and I listened to what felt like the excessively long prayers of the people at ...

Every year, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams commissions a book for the Anglican Communion to read during Lent. This year he asked Ruth Burrows—known as Sister Rachel in her Carmelite community ...

When praying, remember the words of Jesus when he taught the 'Our Father,' Pope Francis said Wednesday, meeting God as his beloved child and speaking from the heart. Some think that to pray is to use ...

If you believe in the power of prayer, would you please pray more? More and more, I’m convinced that the world would be a much better place if we took prayer more seriously. Prayer is not just a ...

Readings: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14 Perhaps this is a provocative assertion, one whose truth you might initially be inclined to deny, though it probably corresponds to ...