Prayer

In line with the Synod of Synodality and its emphasis on listening, the Diocese of Saskatoon has embraced open ears in its series of recent faith gatherings. Listening was the theme of the recently held four-week Adult Faith Awaken formation series, and it’s a theme adhered to with the diocesan Spring Congress, aptly titled “Speak Your Lord, Your Servant is Listening,” which wraps up April 25 in Kindersley.

Happy Month of the Holy Rosary! The Holy Rosary is the solution. To what, you ask? To whatever problem you might have. 

Freshly-brewed coffee awaited a group of Christian men from different denominations, tired in body but alive in spirit, as they funnelled in to join in Iris Ministries’ inaugural Men’s Breakfast gathering.

What secularists never understand is that human dignity is not centred on our desire to be free from all external constraints. Instead, the great dignity of the human person is about our yearning for truth and our ability to seek and find that truth.

In light of the Quebec government’s threat to ban public prayer, Verbatim reprints “A Note on Prayer” from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Episcopal Commission for Doctrine.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has issued a two-page Note on Prayer for the Jubilee of Hope. The note, written by the bishops’ Commission for Doctrine, outlines characteristics and forms of Christian prayer, and concludes by sharing prayer resources, compiled by the bishops’ Ad hoc Committee for the Jubilee.

During my husband’s years in business school, he learned about the power of the “nudge”: how to form a new habit by connecting it to a habit you already have. This practice changed my life.