On the days when I get really fearful, I say a tiny prayer. It’s called a breath prayer. During a series my pastor in Connecticut taught on the Beatitudes, he taught us how to say breath prayers — ...

Each High Holiday season, we return to the same liturgy. Year after year, the same words, often the same tunes. The repetition and comfort in the familiarity of the prayers often highlights what we ...

“Come, Lord Jesus. Be our guest. Let thy gifts to us be blessed. Amen.” I grew up with this meal prayer. The prayer is simple and profound. “Come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20) is the last prayer in ...

These prayers rarely appear in books about spirituality. They are too brief, too ordinary, too woven into the fragile rhythms ...

Worshippers join hands during the Our Father. Sunday Mass offers us several reminders on the importance of forgiveness, such as during the Our Father. (CNS photo/Jim West) A Reflection for Thursday of ...

I have to be honest. I always have struggled with prayer. Maybe my struggle has been with the way in which our culture has always portrayed prayer, as this redundant and repetitive exercise before ...