“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 ...

The tradition of writing prayer guides reaches back to the early centuries of the church, to Origen and Evagrius and to the many treatises on the Lord’s Prayer by church fathers. The tradition has ...

“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 ...

COLUMBUS — Students jumped up and down, screaming with joy as they watched 60 balloons soar into the sky. That's the kind of excitement St. Bonaventure Elementary School Principal Cheryl Zoucha wants ...

Do you want to learn to pray prayers that are heard in Heaven and answered in your life? In James 4, there are a few powerful principles that teach us about the kind of prayer life we need to have. • ...

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.

Do you have children?” For most 30-somethings, this harmless question is the opening volley of a round of acceptable chit-chat. Colleagues at the office fill silences with news of recent pregnancies, ...

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 ...