All Parishioners Invited to Join Our Parish Page on the Hallow App to Pray Together
Our parish’s first prayer challenge, which begins Pentecost weekend (June 7-8, 2025), will be “Witness to Hope,” where you will be able to walk and pray through the life of Saint John Paul II. Once you join the app, visit our Basilica’s parish page on the Community tab and click on the “Witness to Hope” prayer challenge.
Inspirational Quotes on Prayer:
Break off from your cares and labors.
Make a little time for God and rest a while in him.
+ St. Anselm
Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.
+ St. Therese of Lisieux
Prayer is the place of refuge for
every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
+ St. John Chrysostom
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.
+ St. John Vianney
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
+ St. Ignatius of Loyola
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone.
+ St. Frances Xavier Cabrini