Tag: The Heart of Catholic Prayer

We finish our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** Whole books with titles like A Treasury of Christian Prayer attest to the fact that the Church has

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** I once read an interview with Garrison Keillor in which he recounted going to a funeral. During the

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** In the gospel of Luke, the angel Gabriel tells Mary, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** The sensation that Evangelicalism flatly contradicted itself in its rush to escape Mary only increased when I noticed

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** When I was an Evangelical, I began to notice that the biblical arguments supporting our picture of things

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** Those of us struggling with or in recovery from Mariaphobic Response Syndrome have certain passages and prayers that

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** One common complaint among many Evangelicals, my old stomping ground, is that Catholics honor Mary “too much.” It’s

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** One of the things that mark the writers of the New Testament is their appreciation for the fact

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** At the time Gabriel appeared to Mary, an emperor ruled the known world. His name was Augustus Caesar.

We continue our deep dive into THE HEART OF CATHOLIC PRAYER. *** In the Old Testament, the standard protocol for angelic appearances is as follows: The angel appears. The human