Prayer for the Extraordinary Missionary Year 2019
Heavenly Father, when your only begotten Son Jesus Christ rose from the dead, he commissioned his followers to “go and make disciples of all nations” and you remind us that through our Baptism we...
Category: Prayer
Prayer is one of the pillars of Christian Life. It’s not effortless and needs work. There are many sources of prayer – some formal, some modern and some biblical – each with their own positives and negatives. One of the first things to pray for is that God will open our eyes to his love and kindle a passion for his name. Prayer Resources: Articles on Prayer; Prayers for every season.
Pray With the Pope: October 2019
Pope’s Prayer Intention: That the breath of the Holy Spirit might engender a new missionary “spring” in the Church. The world, said Bl John Henry Newman, “grows old, but the Church is ever young....
Salve Regina Prayer
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, Poor banished children of Eve; To thee do we send up our sighs, Mourning and...
Pope Francis joins Prayers for Victims of Bloody Weekend in US
By Rhina Guidos – Pope Francis joined Catholic Church leaders expressing sorrow after back-to-back mass shootings in the United States left at least 29 dead and dozens injured in Texas and Ohio. After the Angelus...
Pray with the Pope: August 2019
Let families be ‘schools of growth’ Intention: That families, through their life of prayer and love, may become ever more clearly true “schools of true human growth”. The survival of family life surely points...
Bring Prayer and Action Together
Athaly Jenkinson, East London – It was good to read Bishop Sithembele Sipuka’s address to new PhD graduates saying that reconciliation “must find expression in the concrete situations of conflict and not just in...
St Jude Prayer for Healing of Cancer
St Jude Prayer for Healing of Cancer God of healing mercy, in Jesus your Son you stretch out your hand in compassion, restoring the sinner, healing the sick, and lifting up those bowed down....
Pray With the Pope: July 2019
General Intention: That those who administer justice may work with integrity, and that the injustice which prevails in the world may not have the last word. ‘The arc of the moral universe is long,...
St Thomas More’s Prayer for Good Humour
Prayer for Good Humour Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest. Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humour to maintain it. Grant me a simple soul that...
Pope to Worldwide Prayer Network: Heart of Church’s Mission is Prayer
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Prayer helps men and women to view reality through the eyes of faith and to have a spiritual outlook on life in order to see God working in their...
Teaching your Child to Pray
Parents have a duty to teach their children the faith, including prayer. ERIN CARELSE offers some ideas about how to introduce prayer into the lives of our children. Teaching our children to pray is a vital...
Grahamstown Spiritfest to Offer Contemplative Prayer
By Samantha Carolus – Contemplative prayer will again form part of Spiritfest at this year’s Grahamstown Festival. Spiritfest will be hosting a collaboration between the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) and the Centre...
