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[“With his whole being (David) loved his Maker and daily had his praises sung . . .” (Sirach 47:8). The Book of Sirach was written in Hebrew by Yeshua ben Sira in Jerusalem (c.180...

[“Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. Lord, hear my cry!” (Ps 130:1)] O Lover, While preparing for Mass on the 10th Sunday of ordinary time I was channeled by...

O Lover, Recently a clause has been coming to me, “Awaken Me to You,” which both escorts into prayer and helps to fend off distractions, even while pointing in a dedicated direction. While paradoxically...

O Lover, I begin ambivalently, raising this prayer-post with hesitancy. As starters, there is a pandemic-like pattern of self-deception in our society regarding both religion and spirituality. Ideational and ideological idolatries abound with the...

O Lover, Across recent decades I have both begun and concluded the day with the praying of Psalm 63:1-8. Recently, just before Mass actually, I was skewered by the line “For Your love is...

[“And, if you have not been enchanted by this adventure—your life—what would do for you?” (Mary Oliver, “To Begin with, the Sweet Grass,” Devotions, 78)] O Lover, The question “is this all there is...

[“This is how we shall know that we are in the truth, and before God be assured in our heart even when that very heart condemns us:  God is greater than our heart and...

[“(You have) self-disclosed to us the Mystery (Mystérion) of Your will, as purposed in the Christ, to be realized when the time was full (kaíros): to draw together into a headship everything (anakephalaiósasthai ta...

[“(I)f ever I could claim to have seen the face of God, it was in the colossal faces of those giraffes” (Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes [2021]).]  [“For (God) brought things into being in...

[“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the son, but the Father alone” (Mt 24:36).] O Lover,  The current religious aspect of our society weights heavily...