Episodes
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
"I can't say it enough: Stay with it. When you're bored, and 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
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
"I can't say it enough: Stay with it. When you're bored, and 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
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Monsignor Lavalley weaves two remarkable saints, St. Joseph and St. Peter, into his meditations on the Way of the Cross.
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
"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.
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Prayer is a dialogue between God and a human being. Prayer is not a feeling; it’s opening your heart to God. In this talk, Monsignor Lavalley discusses what Jesus – the ultimate authority – says about prayer in Matthew’s Gospel. 5th in an on-going series of talks.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
In his third talk, Monsignor Lavalley distinguishes between two types of silence. One is just a void. The other is contemplation. It's preparing a place where God is in control. Embrace the silence, he urges, where God is in control.
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
In the second of a series on silent prayer, Monsignor Lavalley addresses our felt need to appear better than we are - even when we're alone with God. "You can't earn God's love," he says. "I'm going to repeat that. You can't earn God's love - because you already have it. The imposter does not need to exist in front of God."
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Today, there's a hunger for God, and a hunger for prayer. With this talk, Msgr. Lavalley begins a series on contemplative prayer. Practicing contemplative prayer is not for the chosen few, an exclusive club, he says.
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
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