Prayer can take place in a variety of settings and conditions, and address what is uppermost on our minds at any given time. Events and
Wrath — an old-fashioned word, today almost used only in reference to God’s anger and in “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, from which novelist John
Envy, in our modern idiom, is treated almost as a joke, a backhanded way of celebrating our neighbor’s good fortune: “I envy you, brother.” “You
Lust — is it even a sin anymore? British journalist, satirist, and Catholic convert Malcolm Muggeridge once complained of the West, “The orgasm has replaced
Gluttony. It’s not a word we commonly hear or read in conversation anymore. We may merely think of it as a “fat-shaming” synonym for overeating.
Like you, Dear Reader, I was angered and sickened by the Pennsylvania grand jury report. But the lynch-mob mentality that quickly formed among the
