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.

Monsignor Lavalley weaves two great saints - Joseph and Peter - into his meditations on the way of the cross.

"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.

We are very pleased to announce that Monsignor Lavalley's presentations on prayer will resume this Sunday, March 10, at 1:00 p.m. in St. Francis Xavier Church. All are welcome.