Prayer & the Christian life

Britain….the western Iran??????

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

A storm has started to develop in Britain after comments made by Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien. Asked whether institutionalised anti-Catholicism existed in Scotland he didn’t need to check statistics…the answer was most certainly a ‘Yes’!

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Rule no. 1: Prayer is Personal

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

So…if prayer is a way of life….if prayer is the actions we do for love of God rather than the words we say then what of traditional prayer? What does a bed ridden patient do to improve their relationship with the Divine?
The answer, in short, is that there are many forms of ‘traditional’ prayer which, [...]

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‘Ubi Caritas Deus ibi Est’

Monday, July 9th, 2007

The main block to many peoples faith is their own image of God. Down through time God has been given many faces and persona’s to go with them. One’s faith is both real (a reality that is God’s existence) yet personal. Mary may be x, y and z but her personal relationships with others make [...]

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Prayer is a way of life…

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

One teaching central to Christs ministry and so to the Church is all too often forgotten. That is Jesus’ news that “the last shall be first and the first last”. He spoke of our call to follow Him as a call to be the servant of all mankind yet many devout Christians are obsessed with [...]

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