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Spirituality of the Daily Round
Catholic Wisdom
It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.
— Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, Catholic saint
A Prayer in Response to the Arizona Shootings
On January 8, 2011, Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic member of the U.S. Congress, was shot in the head outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, while holding a public event. Six other people at t…
A Prayer for those in the Path of Hurricane Irene
August 27, 2011. Hurricane Irene made landfall this morning on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and continued making its way up the Eastern seaboard of the United States where hurricane warnings we…
A Prayer for the 145 School Children Murdered in Pakistan
O Loving One, Ya Wadud, we grieve with the parents, family, and friends of the 145 school children who were murdered at their school in Peshawar, Pakistan, by the Taliban, on December 15, 2014. May …
A Prayer for Libyan Refugees
The United Nations refugee agency says almost 100,000 people have fled the fighting in Libya and gone to Tunisia and Egypt. The situation is now seen as a "humanitarian emergency." Many of these peo…
A Prayer for Those Suffering from Depression
An estimated 21 million Americans experience some form of depression every year. It is an emotionally, physically, and spiritually depleting disease that can lead to suicide.
We are still reelin…
Walking as a Spiritual Practice
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake," Wallace Stevens once said. I'd make that a "walk around the city." I love to walk and have made it a daily part of my spiritual practice. Mary …
Touching the Earth for Our Adversaries
One of the great challenges in all the world's religious and spiritual traditions is learning to love our enemies. Contemporary cultures still honor the eye-for-an-eye approach to enemies. Revenge i…
The Ritualized Life
Catholic Wisdom
The rosary is a bodily prayer, a prayer of touch.
Our hands touch God when our fingers touch the beads.
— Christine Lore Weber in Praying the Body and Soul by Jane Vennard
Parochial Prayer
By Eleanor Goetz in the KidSpirit Power issue.
Three hundred forty-five years ago Roger Williams declared, “forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils.”
Williams was a 17th-century English …