Good prayer is expansive. What do I mean by this? First, our prayer must be as wide as the world. No one is to be excluded from our prayer. I love the hymn that says, “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea.” Can we say, there’s a wideness in our […]
praying for the world
Our Prayer Must Be Expansive
by Melannie Svoboda SND on October 5, 2020
Praying beyond our Windows
by Melannie Svoboda SND on February 3, 2020
The Talmud says, “Never pray in a room without windows.” I don’t think we have to take this injunction literally. But I do think we must follow the deeper implication of these words and always pray expansively, that is, with the larger world in mind. In her book, The Breadth of the Soul: Reflections on […]
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