Archive for June 2021

“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” “When you forgive some deeper, divine generosity takes you over.” John O’Donahue The word “love” does not appear in the Lord’s Prayer.  Have you ever noticed that?  Nowhere does Jesus, as He is teaching the model prayer, mention love.  That seemed highly unusual…

“I Am . . .The Potter.  You are the clay.”  Jeremiah 18:1-6 “In prayer we journey forward to our origin.  We close our eyes in prayer and open them to the pristine moment of creation.  We open our eyes to find God, His hands still smeared with clay, hovering over us, breathing into us His…

“Jesus, having loved His own, loved them to the end.”  John 13:1 “True prayer is nothing but love.”  St. Augustine “Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.”  St. John Vianney “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is…

“A day in Thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.  I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the mansions of the wicked.” Psalm 84:10 What Saint’s Day is observed in Scotland, but in few other places in Christendom?  If you guessed “St. Columba”, you’re right! …