Fred Power, SJ

For 56 years, Fr Fred Power,S.J. promoted the Canadian Apostleship of Prayer Association and edited its Canadian Messenger magazine for 46 years. He is now Chaplain at the Canadian Jesuits Infirmary at Pickering, Ontario.


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    13 Mar

    The need of each one to be an evangelizer is a high priority today. At the end of January 2015, The Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization hosted a 3-day meeting in Rome with delegates from across Europe to identify new and effective ways of passing on the faith. The press release from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales about the meeting noted "There is not a single day when Pope Francis doesn't call us to go out to share our faith...

    20 Feb

    Taking out insurance on property, on travel, on health, and on one's life is recommended as prudent and a wise safeguard. In remuneration for an accident or fire or whatever is unforeseen one is reimbursed for a certain amount depending on the amount requested. If we apply the same kind of prudent action to what we can call "Etrnal Life" insurance, the premiums are miniscule compared to the forthcoming compensation . We can say and rightly so that the compensation is "out of this world." Of course we are referring to eternal happiness with God in the life that He wants to give us at the time of one's death in this world....

    07 Feb

    On January 3, 2015, the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, Father Adolfo Nicolas, S.J., the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, wrote to all the members about the Re-creating of the Apostleship of Prayer. He had asked their executive directors to undertake a process of renewal of this ecclesial service after 170 years during which the original vision had become in need of new modalities that would be more attractive and compelling to the present age....

    14 Jan

    This article concludes the series of eleven articles on some basic points about praying. It is hoped that they have been of some help in the recitation of set prayer formulas as well as being a stepping-stone into the area of mental prayer. May it foster more openness to the grace of being in God's presence which is a purpose of praying....

    17 Dec

    The new Catechism of the Catholic Church is now the main guide to our beliefs and practices. There are four parts: the creed (37%; the sacraments (23%); the commandments (27%); and prayer (11%). In the section on prayer, the central emphasis is on the Our Father...

    16 Oct

    Father Bernard Basset, ,S.J, was an outstanding Jesuit priest in England who was highly successful as a communicator in writing and speaking. He gave a series of talks on personal prayer that were broadcast on the then world-wide Sacred Heart Program on radio. They were subsequently published in the Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart magazine....

    17 Sep

    Where should we make our personal prayer? Should it be in church, at home, outdoors while communing with God's nature? We read in Matthew's Gospel that Jesus had something to say about where we should pray. He did so in answer to the request by His apostles to teach them how to pray. "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret" (Mt. 6:6)....

    21 Aug

    One of the conditions for praying is a conviction of our dependence on God. If people are not praying, it could be a sign that they feel quite self-satisfied, self-confident, self-assured. For those who fit this life style, "self" seems to be quite sufficient....

    17 Jul

    There are times when even the thought of praying seems overwhelming. One does not have to be in a hospital recovering from a serious operation to fel that praying just now seems too difficult. One is too weary for anything. Perhaps it was such a situation that the master of praying, St. Ignatius of Loyola, had in mind when he proposed a method of praying he called "A Measured Rhythmical Recitation."...

    22 May

    The Buddhists of Tibet use prayer wheels which consist of a wheel, a cylinder, or vertical drum containing written prayers. Each revolution of the wheel represents one repetition of a prayer. The mechanical action seems to replace the need for mental attention being given to the prayer. Christian prayer is not to be one of rote or mechanical. The minimum requirement for a Christian is attention to the words because the purpose of praying is for a deeper relationship with God. There can be a growth in this relationship if we pursue it diligently. God is leading us and teaching us and uniting Himself with us....

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