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(1Th 5:17) Pray without ceasing.
FATHER ALTIER HOMILY: Center your life on Christ
SUBSTACK: Persistence in Prayer
FATHER JEFFREY KIRBY: Prayer is the blood pressure of the soul
There are many mysteries and challenges surrounding prayer. As a help to navigating these realities, the Catechism of the Catholic Church gives us three facts about prayer: 1) It is always possible to pray; 2) Prayer is a necessity; and 3) Prayer and Christian life are inseparable.
Our hearts were made for God, and so wherever our hearts find themselves – no matter the location or the time – they’re able to turn to God and pray. There is no place or time that can ban or bar the prayer of God’s people.
The Catechism teaches: “It is always possible to pray: the time of the Christian is that of the risen Christ who is with us always, no matter what tempests may arise. Our time is in the hands of God.”
Saint John Chrysostom explains: “It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone, or seated in your shop, . . . while buying or selling, . . . or even while cooking.”
Since prayer can be made and offered anywhere, we are called to readily avail ourselves of its comfort and grace. Life cannot be lived well without grace and prayer is an active channel to receive the grace we need in the joys and struggles of our lives.
Prayer should not be seen as an option. We need prayer just like we need food and oxygen. In our secular age, we have forgotten this pressing truth. As believers, we need to counteract the influence of secularism and turn quickly to the power of prayer.
The Catechism teaches: “Prayer is a vital necessity. Proof from the contrary is no less convincing: if we do not allow the Spirit to lead us, we fall back into the slavery of sin. How can the Holy Spirit be our life if our heart is far from him?”
The way of grace is the way of prayer. The abundant life is only found in the mystery of prayer. As believers, we need to live and give witness to the urgency and power of prayer. Rather than follow the path of secularism, which denies the existence of God and the reality of grace, we are called to quickly turn to prayer and drink from its rich wellsprings.
Without prayer, the darkness and meaninglessness of sin rule our lives. Without prayer, nihilism blankets our hearts with darkness. Without prayer, we endlessly follow our own paths in a circular motion devoid of love and purpose. Prayer lifts our hearts, empowers our souls, and helps us to encounter God and know of his love.
The Catechism reminds us: “Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy…. For it is impossible, utterly impossible, for the man who prays eagerly and invokes God ceaselessly ever to sin.”
MORE: When our faith is exposed, we see how we’re approaching prayer
EXCERPT CRISIS MAGAZINE: Toward Traditional Catholic Spirituality
Put together, all the teachings of Our Lady at her appearances and the message are always the same. The message is extremely simple but infinitely profound: we are all called to continual Repentance, personal Prayer, and daily Sacrifices. Then we take these sacrifices with us to Mass each Sunday to be united with the supreme Sacrifice of our Redeemer. These Sacrifices—made to God in, with, and through Christ—enable us to receive our Father’s Love in return, to the measure of our inner spiritual capacity to receive it. This is the only active participation that really matters. Then we must use the divine love that we have received at Sunday Mass to make each day the Mass, through continual daily Repentance, Prayer, and Sacrifice.
This is the profound, ongoing, mystical dynamic that enables each one of us to imitate the spiritual life that was lived by Our Lord Himself when He was on Earth—then to do this with such regularity and perseverance that our daily lives become the Mass, the place where we continually offer ourselves in, with, and through Christ to the Father, in all that we say and do. That is why our Morning Offering—which we know Christ Himself said, in a prayer that the Jews call the Shema—is crucial to remind us of the very essence of our daily spiritual lives in which we exercise the priesthood to which we were called at Baptism.
This is the profound mystical and daily dynamic that gradually enables our heartbeats to synchronize with the heartbeats of Christ—as together with Him, in Him, and through Him we are united with our loving Father, who created us for this very purpose, beginning in this life and continuing to eternity in the next life.
However, we are, it seems, at all times surrounded by the usual culprits who muddy the waters for themselves and others with their inevitable skepticism, questioning the veracity of any or all the appearances of Our Lady no matter how cast-iron the evidence. Let me quote from one of the visionaries who was weary of their incredulity. She said what really matters is the message, even if all the signs and miracles and the appearances of Our Lady herself are denied. Why? Because it is the simple message of the Gospels. It is the True Catholic Traditional Spirituality that was first lived by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, beginning at Nazareth and continuing throughout His life on earth, ending with His death and glorification.
Then see how it was put into practice by the faithful in the early Church that He founded. Study this simple teaching, love it, live it, and you will be living the very essence of True Traditional Catholic Spirituality. It is sadly not precisely the same tradition as practiced by our parents and grandparents that so many believe to be the tradition to which we must return. If it was, why did Our Lady have to appear?
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October 15, 2025(1Th 5:17) Pray without ceasing.
FATHER ALTIER HOMILY: Center your life on Christ
SUBSTACK: Persistence in Prayer
FATHER JEFFREY KIRBY: Prayer is the blood pressure of the soul
There are many mysteries and challenges surrounding prayer. As a help to navigating these realities, the Catechism of the Catholic Church gives us three facts about prayer: 1) It is always possible to pray; 2) Prayer is a necessity; and 3) Prayer and Christian life are inseparable.
Our hearts were made for God, and so wherever our hearts find themselves – no matter the location or the time – they’re able to turn to God and pray. There is no place or time that can ban or bar the prayer of God’s people.
The Catechism teaches: “It is always possible to pray: the time of the Christian is that of the risen Christ who is with us always, no matter what tempests may arise. Our time is in the hands of God.”
Saint John Chrysostom explains: “It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone, or seated in your shop, . . . while buying or selling, . . . or even while cooking.”
Since prayer can be made and offered anywhere, we are called to readily avail ourselves of its comfort and grace. Life cannot be lived well without grace and prayer is an active channel to receive the grace we need in the joys and struggles of our lives.
Prayer should not be seen as an option. We need prayer just like we need food and oxygen. In our secular age, we have forgotten this pressing truth. As believers, we need to counteract the influence of secularism and turn quickly to the power of prayer.
The Catechism teaches: “Prayer is a vital necessity. Proof from the contrary is no less convincing: if we do not allow the Spirit to lead us, we fall back into the slavery of sin. How can the Holy Spirit be our life if our heart is far from him?”
The way of grace is the way of prayer. The abundant life is only found in the mystery of prayer. As believers, we need to live and give witness to the urgency and power of prayer. Rather than follow the path of secularism, which denies the existence of God and the reality of grace, we are called to quickly turn to prayer and drink from its rich wellsprings.
Without prayer, the darkness and meaninglessness of sin rule our lives. Without prayer, nihilism blankets our hearts with darkness. Without prayer, we endlessly follow our own paths in a circular motion devoid of love and purpose. Prayer lifts our hearts, empowers our souls, and helps us to encounter God and know of his love.
The Catechism reminds us: “Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy…. For it is impossible, utterly impossible, for the man who prays eagerly and invokes God ceaselessly ever to sin.”
MORE: When our faith is exposed, we see how we’re approaching prayer
EXCERPT CRISIS MAGAZINE: Toward Traditional Catholic Spirituality
Put together, all the teachings of Our Lady at her appearances and the message are always the same. The message is extremely simple but infinitely profound: we are all called to continual Repentance, personal Prayer, and daily Sacrifices. Then we take these sacrifices with us to Mass each Sunday to be united with the supreme Sacrifice of our Redeemer. These Sacrifices—made to God in, with, and through Christ—enable us to receive our Father’s Love in return, to the measure of our inner spiritual capacity to receive it. This is the only active participation that really matters. Then we must use the divine love that we have received at Sunday Mass to make each day the Mass, through continual daily Repentance, Prayer, and Sacrifice.
This is the profound, ongoing, mystical dynamic that enables each one of us to imitate the spiritual life that was lived by Our Lord Himself when He was on Earth—then to do this with such regularity and perseverance that our daily lives become the Mass, the place where we continually offer ourselves in, with, and through Christ to the Father, in all that we say and do. That is why our Morning Offering—which we know Christ Himself said, in a prayer that the Jews call the Shema—is crucial to remind us of the very essence of our daily spiritual lives in which we exercise the priesthood to which we were called at Baptism.
This is the profound mystical and daily dynamic that gradually enables our heartbeats to synchronize with the heartbeats of Christ—as together with Him, in Him, and through Him we are united with our loving Father, who created us for this very purpose, beginning in this life and continuing to eternity in the next life.
However, we are, it seems, at all times surrounded by the usual culprits who muddy the waters for themselves and others with their inevitable skepticism, questioning the veracity of any or all the appearances of Our Lady no matter how cast-iron the evidence. Let me quote from one of the visionaries who was weary of their incredulity. She said what really matters is the message, even if all the signs and miracles and the appearances of Our Lady herself are denied. Why? Because it is the simple message of the Gospels. It is the True Catholic Traditional Spirituality that was first lived by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, beginning at Nazareth and continuing throughout His life on earth, ending with His death and glorification.
Then see how it was put into practice by the faithful in the early Church that He founded. Study this simple teaching, love it, live it, and you will be living the very essence of True Traditional Catholic Spirituality. It is sadly not precisely the same tradition as practiced by our parents and grandparents that so many believe to be the tradition to which we must return. If it was, why did Our Lady have to appear?
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 3- "On Exile or Pilgrimage"
11. When we have lived a year or two away from our family, and have acquired some piety or contrition or continence, then vain thoughts begin to rise up in us and urge us to go again to our homeland, 'for the edification of many', they say, 'and as an example, and for the profit of those who saw our former lax life'. And if we possess the gift of eloquence and some shreds of knowledge, the thought occurs to us that we could be saviours of souls and teachers in the world, that we may waste in the sea what we have gathered so well in the harbour. Let us try to imitate not Lot's wife, but Lot himself. For when a soul turns back to what it has left, like salt, it loses its savour and becomes henceforth useless.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerR...@aol.com
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