Oh God, . . . since my most recent bad news I have trouble doing anything, including praying to you. Let me be lifted on the ...

There are layers of answers to that. One purpose is obedience to God, because in so many different places we are urged to pray, and we are urged to pray without ceasing. So even if we were not able to ...

I'd always wondered why the chazan (cantor) asks God for eloquence in approaching Him. Wasn't the holiday prayerbook all he ...

Then, if God does not grant our request, we're thrown into a faith crisis, believing He no longer answers us. The real problem, however, is that we misunderstand the Lord's three answers to prayer: ...

Life is full of moments where our emotions—love, joy, sorrow, confusion, hurt—render us speechless before God. Liturgy provides structured prayers that give us a voice when our own words fall short.

The term Islam means submission to the will of Allah (God) by doing what has been commanded ... and it is also recited during daily prayers. 2) Salah (ritual prayer) Salah or ritual prayer is ...

Experiencing the mercy of God requires discovering one's own brokenness, keynote speaker Father Mike Schmitz told the ...

for we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying." Through Sacred Scripture the invisible God, out of the abundance of his love, speaks to men as friends so that he may ...

If all the rest had been sufficient for my love, I would not have needed to create you.” God goes on to explain. “Can’t you ...

Adults may react differently. To them guardian angels might seem weird, intrusive, or maybe a little hokey. We like to think ...

Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation” (Eerdman’s, 2024) is a well-written biography of the president who won a 49-state ...