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April 13
Stay with it – even when you're bored. If you're still there, it is still pleasing to God. … Your prayer and my prayer do not glorify God the way we think it does. You can't add to God's glory. He already has it. God didn't create us because he was lonesome. He didn't create us because he needed more glory. He can't have more glory than he always has. He never changes. He is infinite - without end. But we glorify Him in our prayer - because his glory shows itself in us.Read More -
March 22
Monsignor Lavalley weaves two great saints - Joseph and Peter - into his meditations on the way of the cross.Read More -
March 11
"Surrender to the love of God. That's the heart of contemplative prayer." In the fifth in Monsignor's continuing talks on silent prayer, he reflects on passages in the Gospel of Mark, where Jesus prays.Read More -
February 19Prayer is a dialogue between God and a human being. Prayer is not a feeling; it’s opening the heart to God. In this talk, Monsignor Lavalley discusses what Jesus – the ultimate authority – says about prayer in Matthew’s Gospel.Read More
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February 14In his third talk, Monsignor Lavalley distinguishes between two types of silence. One is just a void. The other is contemplation. It's preparing a place where God is in control. Embrace the silence, he urges, where God is in control.Read More
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February 4In the second of a series on silent prayer, Monsignor Lavalley addresses our felt need to appear better than we are - even when we're alone with God. "You can't earn God's love," he says. "I'm going to repeat that. You can't earn God's love - because you already have it. The imposter does not need to exist in front of God."Read More
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January 29Today, there's a hunger for God, and a hunger for prayer. With this talk, Msgr. Lavalley begins a series on contemplative prayer. Practicing contemplative prayer is not for the chosen few, an exclusive club, he says.Read More
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December 21
Monsignor Lavalley reflects on our preparation for the Feast of the NativityRead More -
December 8
Monsignor Lavalley reflects on the primary feast day of Mary, the mother of God.Read More -
December 7
Monsignor Lavalley reflects on the primary feast day of Mary, the mother of God.Read More
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