There are many ways to pray. But three weeks into the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, I can say this: The Ignatian Way, for me, is like filling up with high-octane gas. They had me at Day 1, ...

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.” Romans 8:26 As we draw closer to ...

Buried deep in the Norton Anthology, George Herbert’s little poem with the unpretentious title “Prayer” is easy to miss. Decorously contained on a half-page with regular rhyme and punctuation, it ...

My husband and I went to see the movie “War Room” over the Labor Day weekend. “War Room” is a faith-based movie about the power of prayer. Hollywood movie critics were surprised at how well the movie ...

Francis began a cycle of catechesis dedicated to the "Our Father", highlighting how Jesus was "a man of prayer". "Even if we have been praying for so many years, we must always learn!". "And we do not ...

“I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs,” said slave turned abolitionist statesman Frederick Douglass. His words give a sweet reminder of the dangers of believing in ...

Volumes have been written about prayer and praying, but I didn’t learn to pray by reading what others have written about prayer. My parents taught me to “talk to God” before I learned to read. Even ...

Rabbi, please say a prayer for my wife; she was just diagnosed with cancer, and is terrified. Rabbi, my husband has been out of work for months, and he has a really promising interview this afternoon.

Imagine you love the sport of tennis. You watch every match you can on TV. You subscribe to Tennis magazine. You buy instructional videos and read biographies of famous players. Then one day you pick ...

Prayer in the life of the Holy Family of Nazareth at the heart of the last general audience of the year. "Children, even from an early age, can learn to perceive the sense of God, through the teaching ...