During my seminary experience, I would occasionally pray with a friend who began his prayer: “Lord, thank you for prayer.” From my youth, prayer had always been associated with meal times, stressful ...

The "priestly prayer" of Jesus in this Sunday's Gospel shows that prayer is both personal and communal because our relationship with God is both personal and communal. We are united in love by God who ...

Thank you God for Israel. Thank you God every day for the miracle of Israel that my ancestors longed and prayed for. Thank you for the miraculous salvation and the start of the Great redemption of ...