We begin with a plea (St. Padre Pio / Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

You must speak to Jesus
not only with your lips,
but with your heart.

--St. Padre Pio

    In our more reflective moments, and in our more desperate moments, we feel our need for prayer and try to go to that deep place. But, given our lack of trust and our lack of practice, we struggle to get there. We don’t know how to pray or how to sustain ourselves in prayer. But in this we are in good company, with Jesus’ disciples. And so a good beginning is to recognize what we need and where it is found. We need to begin with a plea: Lord, teach us to pray! 

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI 

Image source: Patrick Dougher, Higher Power, https://artandtheology.org/2023/01/15/a-prayer-by-claude-mckay/
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