Fabulous books have been written about prayer, and myriads of prayers are available in print. Here, prayer language is primarily Scripture itself. The poetry, songs, dialogue, and prose of the Bible ...

When I was in college, the choir I was in performed a piece that took its text largely from today’s Gospel reading. This was a song we sang in concert settings and Sunday evening Masses, but for ...

What looks like “resting in God” might actually be a mask for resignation. When we suffer, we may outwardly appear to be “resting in God,” accepting whatever he gives us. But what looks like rest ...

Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long. — Deuteronomy 33:12 I wrote a letter to our children as each became a teenager. In one I talked about our identity in ...