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Bring him home: a prayer for “Beloved and his family”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
The Anchoress has just posted a prayer request for a soldier who has been seriously wounded. The A writes: I cannot tell you his name – but if you could storm heaven for “Beloved and his family†at this time – for miracles if God wills them, for peace and consolation if not. The need…
Prayers, please
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Longtime readers may remember a deacon by the name of Tom Stonecipher; last year, I posted an item on him and his remarkable journey to the Catholic Church and the diaconate. Yesterday, the diaconate grapevine passed along news that Deacon Tom has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. I dropped him an e-mail, and this is…
“Please God, help my 401(k)…”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Is that sort of prayer, well…kosher? A writer at Time magazine decided to ask religious leaders in a position to know: Prayer is humanity’s conversation with God. And very often the prayer is a plea. It seems safe to say that in the face of last week’s Wall Street drop, more Americans have fallen to…
A prayer at the start of a new job
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
At Thomas Merton’s hermitage, 2004 Words from the master, with a grateful h/t to Doug Souza: Take my life into Your hands, at last, and do whatever You want with it. I give myself to Your love and mean to keep on giving myself to Your love — rejecting neither the hard things nor the…
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