Prayer Happens Here
The world has gone berserk.
Kids dying of starvation in Gaza, youngsters shot in schools, and Grandparents and Moms gunshot in Church at prayer.
There is war and rumors of war, famine, sickness, cancer, mental illness and our folks and old friends suffering from dementia.
Stabbings, drive-by shootings, drug overdoses, rapes, and terrible violence of every kind . . .
The evil, lying and deceiving enemy is lurking all around and among us.
Pray, each of us, for everyone, everything and everywhere.
The Gospel tells us to pray without ceasing.
(1 Thessalonians 5:17).
We all have chores and responsibilities.
Do them, and pray while you do.
For everyone, everything and everywhere.
What is Done Here
Summed up in a single word – prayer –
is what is done here.
When something goes wrong in the world, I hit my knees. A shooting in a school or Church,
an airplane crash, a bus or train accident,
a massive earthquake or even a shipwreck.
And any other calamity.
Prayer requests come from a wounded spouse who has lost their mate, of parents of children who are dying of a terrible disease, of Moms and Dads of victims of suicide or overdose, or children of an old Mom or Dad slowly losing their mind to dementia.
Jesus responds to pleas and supplications we call intercessory prayer.
You ask me to pray, I do. I keep confidences, and I am passionate about serving. I have never turned anyone away.
And there are the horrible stories of addiction to gambling, porn, drugs and all the other aberrations of normal life.
My Radical Approach to Serving
“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness.”
(1 Timothy 2:1–2)
It is a radical expression of self-giving and trust in God alone.
Don’t Let Jesus Walk Away!
There’s been prophetic visions that when Carlo Acutis is canonized, that end time prophecies will begin to be fulfilled and God will send out the Holy Spirit into the world.
It is supposed to be one of several triggers that sets end time events in motion.
Many visionaries and seers in the Church have been talking about the importance of these last months of the year.
Society’s Wounded Victims
I am a longtime radical solitary.
I believe in radical prayer that produces stunning, instant and staggering results.
Today, we usually think being a radical means being contrarian or denouncing the world just for the sake of it. But to be radical is to be rooted—from the Latin radix, a root—and so to be a Catholic radical, is to be rooted deep in the essential traditions and practices of the Church. It is not to be a strange, marginal, or fringe Catholic—it is to be fully Catholic. It is to go to the root of one’s own life and to be transformed into Christ’s image at the deepest level. It simply doesn’t get any more radical than that.
patrick@brpatrick.com
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