Search This Blog

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Not Your Usual Prayers


This article in Aleteia caught my eye.  It is talking about dangerous prayers.  The article's author, Elizabeth Scalia says that Flannery O'Connor once said, " my prayers take a line through Flannery O’ Connor: “Lord, I’ll never be a saint but I might be a martyr if they can kill me quickly!”

I'm even worse.  I will try to be a normal, ordinary saint, but please Lord, never a martyr. I'm such a coward.

The article's eye-grabbing headline is "Dangerous Prayers."  I won't be a spoiler.  Read the article to see what they are.

No comments:

Hope During Turmoil

 Tomorrow, I'm going to a "My Favorite Poem" event.  I tried to find something apos pro to our times. I looked back to the six...