Congratulations, you have decided to accept the CrossFit Training 30-Day Prayer Challenge!
Prayer is a "surge of the heart" (CCC 2558), like "oxygen for the soul" (St. Padre Pio) and yet it often is the most difficult and neglected aspect of our Christian life. If you struggle to find time in your daily life to pray, you are not alone. If you struggle to find a format of prayer that you can commit to regularly, you are not alone. If you struggle to follow through on your well-intended resolutions to grow in personal prayer, you are not alone. If you have a wonderful life of prayer, but feel as if God is calling you to something more, you, also, are not alone.
Just as it can be said that the Holy Mass begins at the moment in which we begin preparing for it, so too has your CrossFit Challenge already begun by your desire to begin it.
Our hope is that this blog will be a space for inspiration, encouragement, and walking together in community toward deeper prayer lives, together! May this space be a place of shared struggles, encounters with the Living God, and tips to continue to grow.
If, at any time, you would like to contribute to this blog in the form of sharing what God is stirring in your heart through specific prayer encounters, please email your story to Maegan (mfrazier@stpeterstpaul.com), or Michael (mdonaldson@stpeterstpaul.com) and we will consider it.
Let us pray.
Beginning August 2, 2014, each parishioner will have an opportunity to take an active role in our 30 Day prayer challenge entitled CrossFit Training. Prayer helps us to focus on how God is calling us to serve in the Church. The challenge will end August 31, 2014. Are you ready for the challenge?
