Most of us are feeling the pressure at this time of year. Too much to do; too little time. Here’s a prayer for anxious people, written by William Browning, C.P. I found it on the Orientations website, a fine resource for prayer maintained by the Canadian Jesuits. A Prayer to the Holy Spirit O Holy [...]
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A friend sent me this prayer written by St. Anselm of Canterbury, a twelfth-century theologian and philosopher. Anselm is famous for an ontological proof for the existence of God. He held that the concept of God is unique in that anyone who understands what is meant by the the question “Does God exist?” will see [...]
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Patient Trust Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that [...]
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Today Pope Benedict XVI beatified John Henry Cardinal Newman, one of my heroes. A formative period in my life was during the 1990-91 academic year which I spent at Oxford, and among other things I studied the Oxford Movement in which Newman was a prime mover. What impressed me then–and what still moves me today–is [...]
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I Choose to Breathe the Breath of Christ I choose to breathe the breath of Christ that makes all life holy. I choose to live the flesh of Christ that outlasts sin’s corrosion and decay. I choose the blood of Christ [...]
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Here is a prayer for the beginning of the work week. It’s a reworking of Oscar Romero’s poem “Prophets of a Future Not Our Own,” by Lisa Kelly at the Ignatian Life blog. She did it, she says, “to remind myself that while I am not the Master Builder, I am the worker, present in [...]
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Our Creighton Online Ministries website has many prayers by and for mothers. Click here. Here is a Mother’s Day prayer: I [we] thank you, Creator of us all, for my [our] mother[s]. I thank you that she gave me life and nurtured me all those years. She gave me my faith, helping me to know [...]
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I love the prayer called St. Patrick’s Breastplate. Today, the feast of St. Patrick, is a great time to pray it. I like the prayer because it’s an invocation of God’s protection on a journey, and a journey is a good metaphor for life. Oh, yes — the imagery of the prayer is wonderfully vivid. [...]
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Today is the traditional beginning of the Novena of Grace in honor of St. Francis Xavier, a nine-day devotion that has been popular for centuries. The first Novena of Grace dates back to 1634, when the intercession of St. Francis obtained the miraculous cure of another Jesuit. The novena ends on March 12, the date [...]
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My sister and her husband, who live in Oregon, had their inaugural bike ride of the season yesterday. She wrote that the sun was shining, daffodils are up and blooming, crocus fields are thriving and it was 65 degrees as they rounded the road on their way home. It is in contrast to the unusually [...]
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