by Jennie Murphy | Mar 8, 2023 | Blog Articles
Perhaps we don’t realize it, but whenever we pray, we renew the image of God within us. Even when we pray on the Click to Pray app or pray for the Pope’s prayer intentions, we shine forth with the image of God. The biblical passage that underlies this...
by Jennie Murphy | Feb 22, 2023 | Blog Articles
It is beautiful to reread the following two passages at the beginning of the book of Acts (Acts 2:42-47; Acts 4:32-35) to see how the early Church fostered community. Today, the parish wants to reawaken that early sense of fraternity. By proposing the intention for...
by Jennie Murphy | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog Articles
We have been created by Love and for love, in such a way that our life could be summed up as the path in which we learn how to learn to love and be loved. We are people “on the way,” learning how to be the people God has created us to be. During our life...
by Jennie Murphy | Feb 8, 2023 | Blog Articles
Researching the origins of Christianity is an opportunity to recover the meaning of life from the roots that hold us together in faith. If we look at the prayer life of the early Church, we find that it can be split-up into various types of prayer: the prayer of...
by Jennie Murphy | Jan 25, 2023 | Blog Articles
Tertullian, an ecclesiastical author of the late second century, writes in one of his first treatises on prayer that “only prayer conquers God” (De oratione 29, 2). It’s a provocative phrase! But already in the Old Testament, the book of Sirach tells...
by Jennie Murphy | Jan 18, 2023 | Blog Articles
The prayer intention proposed by Pope Francis is a beautiful and vast project. Education is a word that crosses social and human realities. There is no need to be a teacher, professor, special educator or parent to participate in education. Everyone in his profession...
