All Parishioners Invited to Join Our Parish Page on the Hallow App to Pray Their Lent Pray40 Challenge
Our parish’s next prayer challenge, which begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026 — is “Lent Pray40: The Return,” where you will join others on a journey back home to the Lord – no matter our sins, no matter our struggles, no matter how far we’ve strayed away. Just as we’ll see through the Parable of the Prodigal Son, we’re all farther away from God than we need to be…but the good news is God is always waiting for us with open arms, running out to us while we are still a long way off. Once you join the app, visit our Basilica’s parish page on the Community tab and click on “Pray40.” Or click here for more information. Click here to join Hallow and then follow the steps below to join.
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