Prayer Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/prayer/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:30:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Prayer Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/prayer/ 32 32 A Special Way of Praying for America https://mind-at-work.com/a-special-way-of-praying-for-america/ Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:30:47 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4517 It is hard to imagine a greater need for prayer in our country than the need that exists today. In the past we have faced illness, famine, and attacks from without, but today we face graver assaults from within. At stake are the institutions and processes that have given the U.S. unprecedented economic and social [...]

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]]> The Communion of Saints https://mind-at-work.com/the-communion-of-saints/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:46:17 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3722 The phrase “the Communion of Saints” is very familiar to Catholics, especially older ones, because it is in the Apostles’ Creed that they were taught in childhood. The term is based on the belief that a union exists between the deceased who loved God while on earth and the living who do so now. The [...]

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]]> Does Prayer Really Matter? https://mind-at-work.com/does-prayer-really-matter/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:19:10 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3607 The subject of the homily in a Church near my own parish was prayer. The homilist declared that praying for Aunt Louise’s cancer to be cured or for one’s prodigal son to mend his ways is pointless and therefore immature. The only meaningful form of prayer, he explained, is “Thy will be done” because God is [...]

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]]> Celebrating Thanksgiving https://mind-at-work.com/celebrating-thanksgiving/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:16:31 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2995 Special days of thanksgiving existed in earlier cultures, including Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and ancient Jewish, yet we Americans are more familiar with the ones that occurred several hundred years ago in Florida, Virginia, and most notably Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. From the beginning, American Thanksgiving has been religious, though not in a denominational sense. People [...]

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