When I was younger, a nun told me that if I only prayed when I was in trouble, then I was indeed in trouble. That maxim was filed away and revived when I began reading Learning to Pray: A Guide for ...

Jesuit priest Martin (The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything) argues prayer is for people of all religious traditions and denominations in this astute work. While Martin acknowledges that prayer and ...

NEW YORK — Father James Martin infrequently prayed until his late twenties. And even when he did pray, as he recalls, it was asking for God’s help on things like acing a test, hitting a home run in ...

Catholic publishers have recently released some fantastic books to help your prayer life, your parenting, and your understanding of the Catholic faith. Check out these titles for unique additions to ...

The tradition of writing prayer guides reaches back to the early centuries of the church, to Origen and Evagrius and to the many treatises on the Lord’s Prayer by church fathers. The tradition has ...

Part memoir and part meditation, Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers That Even I Can Offer is Leah Libresco’s spiritual journey as an atheist convert to Catholicism. The Catechism of the Catholic ...

Great figures from church history have much to teach about talking with God. Gary Neal Hansen used to think he had a peculiar prayer life, because his prayers were unlike those of people around him.

Buried deep in the Norton Anthology, George Herbert’s little poem with the unpretentious title “Prayer” is easy to miss. Decorously contained on a half-page with regular rhyme and punctuation, it ...

Volumes have been written about prayer and praying, but I didn’t learn to pray by reading what others have written about prayer. My parents taught me to “talk to God” before I learned to read. Even ...

The Book of Psalms can teach people how to pray and is the “prayer book ‘par excellence,’” Pope Benedict XVI said in his June 22 audience with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. “These inspired songs ...

On the eve of choosing the 12 apostles from among his disciples, our Lord spent an entire evening on an unnamed mountain praying to God (Luke 6:12). Interestingly, Luke tells us, not that Jesus ...