Prayer Resources

Beloved – An Audio Meditation

An audio meditation on your belovedness. You are loved. Period.

Gifts Should Have No Baggage

Have you ever received a gift with strings attached? Let’s remove the guilt, conditions, and baggage that often come with gift-giving.

Giving up Catholicism for Lent?

Last Lent you may have seen Stephen Colbert's bit on Ash Wednesday (see the video at the bottom). The broadcast opens on Colbert with ashes on his forehead. "The ash on my forehead is a Christian symbol of sacrifice, penance, and mortality," he began. "It's basically...

Can I call God a friend?

We should have respect and reverence for God, but can we call God a friend? Yes! And here’s why…

What Does It Mean To Be A Christian?

Being Christian is more than professing doctrines and participating in rituals. It’s a Christ-centred lifestyle about loving one another.

Agere Contra

Saint Ignatius knew our human tendencies well. He was a lover of the world and fell easily into lust and vanity. The pulls he felt toward such things he called the "evil spirit". We can tend to stick with what's comfortable and known. This autopilot can get us into...

The Ministry of Remembering

It feels good to be remembered. Ignatius saw the memory as a gift, one that draws us into a deeper union with God.

Art & Imagination – Week 4

Praying with our senses

Just be there

Today's Gospel at Mass is the famous passage in Matthew where Jesus teaches his disciples to pray. It's where we get the Our Father prayer. And he first says to pray in private where only your Heavenly Father will see. I always like checking The Message translation of...

Three Lessons for Being Christian

Lately I’ve felt “more Christian”. Here are three ways we can grow in our Christian identity.

Prayer is an invitation from God, inviting us into relationship with God. It gives us a chance to take part in the story of creation, have an effect on the world, be involved in its God-story, and most importantly, reflect on how we contribute. These resources hope to reveal the infinite facets of prayer, the many ways we reach God, and how God reaches into our lives: in love, with words, in silence, seeking our desires, at different times, in different places.