Prayer for Priests
Pat Rother, Cape Town – With all the trouble in the Catholic Church, I feel we need to pray for our priests. There are thousands of priests affected by what some have done. We...
Category: Prayer
The Rosary is My Secret to Traffic Calmness
Judith Sims, Johannesburg – I have a 10-bead rosary in my car which hangs on the indicator lever. I hold it in my right hand and pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. In this way,...
Centering Prayer Founder, Thomas Keating, Dies at 95
A funeral Mass was celebrated in Massachussetson November 5 for Trappist Father Thomas Keating, a leading figure in the centering prayer movement that got its start in the 1970s.
Change your Mindset, Step out in Faith and Always Trust in God
Have you ever found yourself in a “faith valley?” By that, I mean a place where your spiritual life would really benefit from an answered prayer or an unexpected blessing or something in...
Pray With the Pope: November 2018
Be Driving Saints! General Prayer Intention: In the Service of Peace. That the language of love and dialogue may always prevail over the language of conflict. This is an intention well-suited to the age...
Prayer for the Feast of All Souls
Lord God, you are the glory of believers and the life of the just. Your son redeemed us by dying and rising to life again. Since our departed brothers and sisters believed in the...
My Spiritual Lesson From an Ear Infection
For the past few weeks I have been struggling terribly with my ears. I picked up an ear infection while travelling for work, and it’s thrown me completely off balance, literally. At first I...
What the Rosary Means to Me
“The Rosary is a part of my life, and of who I am. There is an authentic deep sense of consolation for me in Mary’s maternal presence,” writes Kelvin Banda OP One of the...
No Stopwatch When Praying!
Tom Drake, Johannesburg – Different folks, different strokes! I have always had a problem with set prayers rattled off in community, or perhaps even on one’s own. It seems to me that prayer is,...
Family ministry activist Buyi Nkosi Inspired Christian Witness
Family ministry activist Buyisile Patronella Nkosi died on September 25 after a long illness. Buyi Nkosi, with her husband Jabu, worked tirelessly for the Catholic Church Family Ministry, both nationally and in the...
Saying the Rosary at Maximum Speed? No Ways!
Fr Ralph de Hahn, Cape Town – There is normally a universal appeal and emphasis on the rosary over October month as we prepare for the Advent season. The popular form, I gather, is...
Why Do We Pray to the Saints?
A friend quotes 1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.” Her church honours the saints only as exemplars of the Christian life...
