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Praying to All Who Will Listen
Sunday evening, my sponsor sidled up to me in a way I was accustomed to interpreting as mischievous. Instead, he said, “I have something for you,” and requested I close my eyes as he placed something in my hands. I was the proud owner of my first rosary. I didn’t look up the prayers right… Continue reading
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Vision of the Night
I was five years old when I prayed for the first time. I don’t know what made me do it. We weren’t a church-going family at the time, and it’s not like my five-year-old friends were talking about God. I probably saw someone do it on TV. I didn’t know what people prayed about, but… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6