In this week’s Sunday Gospel, the Lord gives three prescriptions for prayer. The Gospel opens in response to a request, “Lord ...

The prayer of praise serves us. The Catechism defines it this way: “It shares in the blessed happiness of the pure of heart who love God in faith before seeing Him in glory” (no. 2639).

Prayer and praise are two of the most powerful weapons that has been given to the Body of Christ. The challenge is that most of God’s children do not operate in these weapons.

If the Kaddish is a prayer to sanctify God in the face of unbearable grief, to say that, yes, I am wounded, but I still will stand and praise God and ask that His will be done, then an atheist’s ...