Holy Souls Church

A reflection from Pope Francis for the Year of Prayer

Twenty-eighth Sunday of the Year

We consider how our prayerful dialogue with God is meant to embrace the events of each day, in our homes, daily chores or work.  All our thoughts and activities should be a part of our daily conversation with the Lord.  There is no aspect of our everyday lives, however mundane, that cannot be offered in prayer to God and become an occasion of deeper union with him. Blaise Pascal observed that humans are so frail that even a drop of water can destroy us, yet in our fragility, prayer is a mark of our supreme grandeur, for prayer can work miracles in our world, transform lives and history, and serve the coming of God's kingdom of justice and peace.

To read the full reflection and find more resources at dioceseofnottingham.uk/yearofprayer

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Quote of the Week:

"I am of course far from denying that every article of the Christian Creed, whether as held by Catholics or by Protestants, is beset with intellectual difficulties; and it is simple fact, that, for myself, I cannot answer those difficulties.  Many persons are very sensitive of the difficulties of religion; I am as sensitive of them as any one; but I have never been able to see a connection between apprehending those difficulties, however keenly, and multiplying them to any extent, and on the other hand doubting the doctrines to which they are attached.  Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.  There of course may be difficulties in the evidence; but I am speaking of difficulties intrinsic to the doctrines themselves, or to their relations with each other.  A man may be annoyed that he cannot work out a mathematical problem, of which the answer is or is not given to him, without doubting that it admits of an answer, or that a certain particular answer is the true one.  Of all points of faith, the being of God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with the most power."

St John Henry Newman, Feast 9^th October