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Personal Intention Book
It’s easy enough to agree to pray for those in need. Someone, somewhere, has a relative, friend, or mere acquaintance they want to pray for, and it’s natural to request that others pray for them, too. “Of course I’ll pray for them,” we say, and might remember to actually do it. But then we stop Continue reading
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Praying to All Who Will Listen
Sunday evening, my sponsor sidled up to me in a way I was accustomed to interpreting as mischievous. Instead, he said, “I have something for you,” and requested I close my eyes as he placed something in my hands. I was the proud owner of my first rosary. I didn’t look up the prayers right 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