Whenever a soul knows it’s loved, it wants to stay and flourish in the love that’s given. When we talk about prayer, we’re ...

Holy Week immerses us into the sacred pattern of reality itself. It mirrors our life: a journey marked by love, loss, waiting ...

The fourth part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church contains the Church’s universal teaching on prayer and the spiritual ...

This article was originally published in the April 2025 issue of Topic. Read the full issue of Topic, online, here. As ...

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they ...

Many Christians seek his support in prayer to be shielded from all evil. Oh glorious Saint Benedict, sublime model of all virtues, pure vessel of God's grace. Here I am, humbly kneeling before you.

Originally, however, the prayer was written by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. For him, it was a call to confront the realities of the world with courage – relying not on one’s own power but ...

Yet the best-known version of the prayer is not quite the version that Niebuhr originally wrote. According to Sifton, his first version read, “God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the ...