The Body And The Blood When I sat still for a few minutes and wondered where was my favorite place to pray, at first I felt a bit defeated. I have prayed in all sorts of places. Fields. Bus stations. Chapels. Cathedrals. Church after church after church. Walking down the street. The big stuffed chair in my room. How could I choose a favorite place? But after a few minutes of prayer, ironically enough, I saw before me the small...
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(by Joe Simmons, SJ) This past weekend witnessed the canonization of seven new saints in Rome. For holy men or women to be recognized as capital-S Saints in the Roman Catholic Church, typically two miracles need to be attributed to their intercession. Usually these come when someone is healed without an easy medical explanation. Call me the modern skeptic, but I always found this litmus test to be… well… troubling, I guess. In my...
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Slide Show What a full prayer this was! The images never stopped. It was a slide show, with many images all montaged together. By the end I thought it had become a mosaic. And then the mosaic was on the ground, under my feet. Instead of being on a wall. It was too much, really, to look at. To take in. My life has been a path of prayer. I even wondered, during this time of prayer focusing on the concept of prayer, if every single...
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