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Prayer As Relationship: Our Friendship With God
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Prayer as Relationship"|Many of us remember the oldest and best definition of prayer: "raising the mind and heart to God." I suspect that most of us practiced the first part, raising ...
Praying in Ordinary Time Before Lent
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
The five to eight weeks of Ordinary Time - after the Christmas Season and before Lent begins - is a wonderful time to pray. In many ways, it can be a pre-Lent period.|Staying Focused by following the readings|In our Weekly ...
Praying the Rosary
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the beginning of "Praying the Rosary"|In the beginning of his 2002 encyclical on the Rosary, Pope John Paul II said:|The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the ...
Praying As We Age
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Praying as We Age"|Prayer is essentially about nurturing our relationship with God. We can have a relationship with each of the persons of the Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. ...
Praying the Psalms
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Praying the Psalms"|Using the Psalms is a great way to pray. These wonderful examples of Hebrew poetry come from worship services, important celebrations and historical events, songs ...
Prayers for Fathers and Husbands
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Prayers for Fathers and Husbands"|For Fathers Coping with a Teenager|Now what, Jesus? Once again I have been dismissed by my own child who looks at me as if I am a stranger and an ...
Peter Remembers His Call From Jesus
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Peter Remembers his Call from Jesus"|I get asked about it all the time, so I don't mind talking about it again. People are always asking, "So, Peter, what was it like the day Jesus ...
A Rosary for Alzheimer's Patients: Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first three paragraphs of "A Rosary for Alzheimer's Patients"|Agony in Garden|For the length of time it takes to pray 10 Hail Marys, I meditate on the Agony in the Garden. I picture Jesus, troubled and afraid, ...
Prayer for the Loss of a Grandchild
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Oh, God,|This is so unfair! Not our grandchild! It isn't fair! It isn't right! Our darling, young grandchild, the one we delighted in at birth, tended to, babysat and loved without limits. Why now are our hearts broken by ...
Finally, the Sacred Silence
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Finally, the Sacred Silence"|I wanted to pray with my mother. After a half day in airports and on planes, I had returned for another visit to see her, another four days of watching ...