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SCRIPTURE NOTE Today’s readings continue the theme of prayer. In a society where money and power are everything, the ‘little people’ don’t have a chance. The First Reading states that God treats all people fairly. He shows no partiality to the rich and powerful. He listens to the humble prayer of the just and the […]

REFLECTION I am neither a man of letters nor of science, but I humbly claim to be a man of prayer. It is prayer that has saved my life. Without it, I would have lost my reason long ago. If I did not lose my peace of soul, in the midst of my many trials, […]

Thanks to the book Schindler’s Ark, and the film, Schindler’s List, the name Oskar Schindler became known to millions of people around the world. Schindler was a German industrialist. During World War II he saved over a thousand Polish Jews from the concentration camps. As the war ended the Germans pulled out of Poland, and the people […]

Faith is not a thing, but a relationship with God. The expression to lose your faith, as one might lose a key or a purse, is really rather silly. Faith is not a thing which one loses; we merely cease to shape our lives by it. All of us should make our own the prayer of […]