prayer
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Resting in God
It’s been a while, but today I took my lunch hour at church. My lack of mid-week ventures hasn’t been due to lack of desire—I simply didn’t know where to go. There were many options when I worked in Manhattan, but most parishes in the suburbs are locked tight during the week. Except, it seems, Continue reading
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Give us Your Weary
We also offer you our fatigue this evening, because we are a bit tired from the various events of this day, as on many other days. We are content, Lord, to offer you this fatigue because it is our daily vesture. —Carlo Maria Martini, SJ I received a tiny prayer book on my retreat, something Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6