I had the old cordless phone in my hand, ready to punch the numbers. I was calling my mom on a normal Thursday morning. Then I realized what I was doing. Mom wouldn’t be picking up on the other side.

Tragically, our news reports tell the stories of individuals losing their lives, with their years cut short in an instant. Hearing it shocks us, but it also reminds us that life is like a breath, not ...

In our fast-paced lives, it’s easy for prayer to become a routine, losing its profound power in what we may call its familiarity. I believe there is a transformative practice of maintaining a daily ...

One of the key lessons I learned growing up was that making time of prayer a daily habit is essential for developing a spiritual life. I grew up in a family where prayer was very much a part of the ...

St. Francis de Sales provides a number of practical tips for engaging in daily prayer that remain relevant in today's modern world. While there are many books about prayer written by saints, they ...

The Church offers to us the following four ways that we can create a rhythm of prayer in our daily schedule. In addition to our spontaneous moments of prayer throughout the day, the Church encourages ...

A distraught friend told me, "I think all I have left is prayer." I thought about this, then decided to turn my photos into ...