The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
Chapter IV
Reflections on Prayer
Do not think that you have to be on your knees to pray. Sacred Scripture tellsl us: "Pray always." This means there is also the Prayer of Action.
Hence never undertake any duty, whether it be Kitchen Police, shouldering a gun, typing a letter, dressing children, sitting down to a meal, going to a movie, listening to a dull story, studying or digging, without doing it in the name of God. It then becomes a prayer.
Every action is an unsigned check; when we offer it in the name of God, we sign God's name to it, and give it the value of a prayer.
[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons
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