A common house of worship featuring a mosque, a synagogue and a Christian church is being planned for Berlin. Berlin Rabbi Tovia Ben Chorin, Imam Kadir Sanci and Pastor Gregor Hohberg hope their dream can become a reality. The trio hope Christians, Jews and Muslims will soon study and pray together. The city has already Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Prayer’
Sterile celibacy leads to bitterness and gossip, Pope warns
Friday, August 1st, 2014Among the dangers of a “sterile” form of celibacy are bitterness and gossip, Pope Francis told a group of Italian priests and bishops on July 26. When a priest disagrees with his bishop or when bishops disagree with each other, they must air their differences – even loudly – but never talk behind each other’s backs, Pope Read more
NZ bishops ask Pope to start a world prayer vigil for Gaza
Friday, August 1st, 2014
New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have asked Pope Francis to declare a global prayer vigil for peace in Gaza and the rest of the Holy Land. In a letter, the New Zealand bishops praise the Pope for his efforts to bring about peace. But the bishops pick up on a request from a Gaza priest, Fr Raed, Read more
Discovering God in silence
Friday, July 4th, 2014
God cannot be found in noise and agitation. His true power and love are revealed in what is hardly perceptible, in the gentle breeze that requires stillness and quiet to detect. In silence, God listens to us. In silence, listen to Him. In silence, God speaks to our souls and the power of His word Read more
Peace summit, no peace
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
Hours before he convened an unprecedented Vatican prayer service for peace in the Middle East, Pope Francis told a crowd gathered in St Peter’s Square that “a church that doesn’t have the capacity to surprise… is a dying church.” By that standard, Francis showed that Catholicism on his watch is alive and kicking by delivering Read more
Is he dead or just meditating?
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014Followers of an Indian guru thought to have died of a heart attack insist he is just meditating and are refusing to let his family take the body away for cremation. They say Shri Ashutosh Maharaj is not dead, he is just meditating deeply and they are keeping him in a deep freeze to preserve Read more
Evangelii Gaudium: The missionary power of intercessory prayer
Sunday, June 1st, 2014281. One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it is the prayer of intercession. Let us peer for a moment into the heart of Saint Paul, to see what his prayer was like. It was full of people: “…I constantly pray Read more
The Way of Holy Week
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
We are people of the Way, an ancient term for the first Christians which is found in the Acts of the Apostles. Jesus showed us that way throughout his whole life on earth, but this way becomes particularly clear and calls to us most profoundly in the events of Holy Week, not only by Jesus’s Read more
Rejoice, Jerusalem!
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
The fourth Sunday in Lent, Laetare Sunday, is my favourite Sunday in Lent, and not just because of the pink vestments that insecure clergy sometimes attempt to convince you are “rose.” So many of the rich images, words, and themes that will recur at the Easter Vigil are hinted in the day’s readings and prayers — the Read more
Pairing Pilates and Prayer
Friday, March 14th, 2014SoulCore is a workout that pairs core stretches with meditation on the Catholic devotional prayers of the Rosary. Each decade (or “mystery”) of the Rosary is paired with an exercise designed to build a particular virtue, like humility, love of neighbor, material detachment, sacrifice and joy. Participants reflect on the mysteries silently while following along with Read more