tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post8719475602340176100..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: Nah, I Don't Feel Like ItBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-28190237521627741982008-03-18T10:44:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:44:00.000-04:00thanks so much for these reflections! they are al...thanks so much for these reflections! they are always so inspiring! since i'm not able to get to daily Mass as much as i would like and am usually only able to go to daily mass on friday and saturday mornings, these reflections are a real treat. <BR/>i like this one on prayer. yes, sometimes it is a struggle to pray or even a struggle as we're in prayer. i have definitely been through the "night of sense", as you describe, many times. but, one important thing i think i'm learning is to never give up. there are many ways to pray and i think that we sometimes have to go through the "night of sense" to discover how we should be praying. i don't think, as adults, that we should still be praying as we did as children. (although, there is just one daily prayer that i pray daily to the Sacred Heart of Jesus that i've prayed since i was a child. i've always had a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus since i was seven years old.) at this point in my life, i enjoy praying in some different ways: morning prayer with the Capuchin Friars and parishioners at Sacred Heart is a way i like to pray - i feel a very deep connection to the church as a whole when i pray with them like this. i only get to pray like this one or two mornings a week, but it's a nice way to pray. monthly nocturnal adoration is another way i like to pray. you can always pray in different ways when you are adoring the Lord - you can talk to Him, listen to Him or just be still in His presence. <BR/>and there are other little ways that i pray in daily life. the Mass is one of the highest forms of prayer because it unites us with God. if people understood this, Mass would be crowded every day of the week - we would have such a desire to go to Mass as often as possible! i think that if we keep in our mind, heart & soul that when we pray we do it for the glory of God, then we will have PEACE.<BR/>taratarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793445592732648747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-74364048018895910042008-03-17T08:52:00.000-04:002008-03-17T08:52:00.000-04:00Wonderful! Thank you so much for posting this so p...Wonderful! Thank you so much for posting this so powerfully. The "going back to Egypt or trusting the Lord in the wilderness" bit is a choice every day, it seems to me, and we cannot be reminded of it often enough.<BR/><BR/>MikeMike Farleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732248182662167951noreply@blogger.com