Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Friends, All Saints Day falls on a Sunday this year, so the Church can give special attention to this important solemnity. Léon Bloy famously said that there is only one real sadness in life: not to be a saint. Sainthood is the ordinary goal of Christian life; it’s what the whole ...  Show more

Friends, peace be with you—an echo of the words of the risen Jesus in our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter, also called Mercy Sunday. Christ gives his disciples the gift of shalom (peace). But there’s an exceptionally important juxtaposition here: He also shows them his wou ...  Show more

At the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us to pray through his own prayer to the Father. As we watch Jesus pray, his prayer becomes our template for our own prayer. Fr. Mike emphasizes that our prayer should not just be external, but rather should be an internal conversion of h ...  Show more

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Jesus teaches that the first words we speak in prayer should be adoration. But what if adoration is more for us than it is for God? What if adoration is the necessary inner work we need to pray with wide-eyed faith?

Karim Istanboulian shares from Matthew 6:5-15 on learning to pray according to the Father's will from the way that Jesus modeled prayer to us. يشارك كريم اسطنبوليان من متى ٦: ٥-١٥ عن تعلّم الصلاة بحسب مشيئة الآب من الطريقة التي اظهر فيها يسوع لنا الصلاة