Daily Prayers

Prayer is Love, I want to Love

Category: Fr John’s Weekly

  • Mamon Has Claimed Them

    The sixth book of the Bible is the Book of Joshua. It is horrifying. The book teaches that God wanted Joshua to exterminate the local people, the Philistines, who had lived there for centuries. Today we would call that genocide. Do you believe God would demand genocide? It is one of the biggest lies in…

  • Belief, Love And God

    This moment came in my prayer: “I can’t believe in God. I can only love God.” I felt blessed. Many, if not most, even all, people in the world and in our human history could say that. Now it was my turn. Belief is out of reach, but love unites everyone. The human race loves…

  • Compliment, Give Thanks, Pray

    You may be your own worst critic. Don’t be. Be your best supporter because only you know the small things that you think and do and say. Every compliment thought or said is positive, each small prayer is good – for other people’s kindness and encouragement. Don’t criticise yourself for what you can’t do but…

  • Creation And Sin; Guidance And Mercy

    The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Bible. Chapter one is a poem in which the author imagines God as a working man, working for six days and then taking a day of rest. God’s final act on the evening of the sixth day is to create human beings in “our own…

  • Documents of Vatican II

    A book which summarises the sixteen documents of Vatican II. The excitement of those days flowed for me again as I was reading and writing. I revisited the press conferences, heard the issues debated in lectures at the Lateran University and…

  • How I Occupy My Time

    Every day I am grateful God has extended my life, by three years now, and I long to fulfil three promises: (1) to my friend, Prof. Gerry Potter, to speak about Salvestrol on his behalf and that of his family; (2) to share his concern for the poor of the world to benefit from Salvestrol…

  • The Human Trinity

    Each of us is the third person of the human trinity. We know that two other people have been involved, however that happened. The life of the third person, the child, confers a new title on those two others. Until the conception of the child they were man and woman, husband and wife, partners, surrogates,…

  • Boys And Girls

    Dear Girls and Boys, You are living in the best time of history the world has ever known and you must help the grown-ups to understand. You know how you can talk and send messages to family and friends in any part of the world. You will keep on learning in ways many grown-ups will…

  • The Greatest Suffering, Dementia & Alzheimers

    I have been in hospital chaplaincy for eight years in south Wales, six years in East Anglia, twelve years in Leicester. The greatest suffering I have seen over those many years is Dementia/Alzheimer’s (D/A), the burden borne by loving families and carers. The terrible switches in mood, the confused vicious and spiteful words of those…

  • Church And Church Attendance

    Church and school were only a few hundred yards from my home and I tried to go to mass every morning when I was a teenager. I loved the silence. Some people read from prayer books, others said the rosary, others simply knelt there. A community of separated prayer – but a community. We knew…