“I do not know you God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.” That humble statement is on the back cover of Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal, published last year. In case you’re not familiar with this Catholic, Flannery O’Connor was a gifted short-story writer and essayist who was just… Continue reading On the Nightstand: March
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Like a Little Prayer
“Every chance to write is a prayer,” my fellow Your Daily Tripod contributor Father Joe McCloskey, S.J., wrote to a group of us in an e-mail last week. That’s the thing about Father Joe; I don’t know if it’s his fifty years as a priest or his time with