Sunday Synopsis Fr. Dear friends in Christ, On the Seventeenth Sunday of the Year, C (July 27, 2025), I bring you greetings ...

Sunday Reflections 17th Sunday of year C Be generous and perseverant in your prayers ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel, ...

"Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.' 2 And he said to them, 'When you pray, say: ...

The mystery of prayer, as Jesus reveals to His disciples in this week's Gospel, is the living relationship of beloved sons and daughters with their heavenly Father.

As we reflect on these truths, may our prayer life be transformed — from duty to delight, from formula to friendship, from ...

“If we pray rightly,” St. Augustine taught, “we say nothing but what is already contained in the Lord’s Prayer.” The prayer ...

Mark Plemmons' Friday Five includes a granddaughter's visit to Ireland, a big award for a local business leader, a library ...

For St. Augustine, the prayer Jesus taught his disciples truly is the perfect prayer, a prayer containing all prayer. The disciples had watched Jesus pray to his Father "in the Holy Spirit." Jesus ...

In a Mass celebrated prior to the start of the conclave Wednesday in Rome to elect the next pope, one of the most senior cardinals stressed the importance of unity and prayed for a pontiff who ...

There are countless reasons to pray for the cardinal-electors, but here are the seven that stand at the top of my list. The first three have to do with the opposition arrayed against disciples of ...

Our one request should be the same as the twelve disciples so long ago: “Lord, teach us to pray.” The 74th Annual National Day of Prayer will be on Thursday, May 1.

The Rev. Brian Zahnd, creator of the Prayer School, is coming to Canton. He contends prayer is much more than simply talking to God.