On Rosh Hashanah is it written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Who will live and who will die…. Who by fire and who by water.” These words from the “Unetaneh Tokef” prayer lie at the heart of the Rosh ...

For centuries, people have offered prayers for the sick, often with surprising results. Now, medical research has shown proof that healing prayers have positive results for the sick. Spiritual gurus ...

The Gospel reading for October 5, 2011, Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, is Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer in 11:1-4. The request they make of Jesus in this short passage ...

In Lent’s middle stretch, when prayer can falter, the saints call us back to deeper communion with the God who dwells within ...

Let’s face it. Prayer is a bit of a mystery. We pray to Someone we can’t see, sometimes matter-of-factly, sometimes with great passion, and sometimes in desperation. Rarely do we receive immediate ...

During my life, I’ve had several people who I considered to be best friends. We shared everything. One friend was April. We were roommates in Spartanburg, where we both had our first professional jobs ...