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What’s new? Hopefully one or more of these links given below can help enlighten your day and strengthen your prayer life! No doubt you have received articles and links in your e-mailboxes concering our faith that you’ve passed along to family, friends, and acquaintances. We here at Our Catholic Prayers wish to do so here as well!

Now that the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations are done, we find ourselves faced in 2009 with many anxieties and challenges. Many people are wondering what will become of their jobs, their savings, and even their homes. This is indeed a time when we must turn to God in prayer now more than ever.

For those of you who have visited our prayer requests section and posted your intentions, be assured that we here at Our Catholic Prayers and many of our readers are praying for you. Please feel free to post requests and to tell others about this page as well!

Here’s a good example of the power of prayer in a time of turmoil. This powerful article about a couple whose prayers helped them tremendously during a true crisis is both moving and inspiring.

They were trapped in the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India when it was being assaulted by Muslim terrorists last November 26th. When they were rescued by the Indian army they credited the rosaries and other prayers they were saying for helping them survive their 15-hour ordeal.

On a lighter but also inspirational note, read about Coach John Harbaugh whose faith has helped him take his team, the Baltimore Ravens, far on the road to the Super Bowl. As his brother Jim says, “his relationship with God is the thing he leans on whenever he has tough times.”

The important thing moving forward is for us to keep God front and center in our lives as much as possible.

These suggested New Year’s resolutions can help with that goal. And as we pray for ourselves and others we must continue to pray for the right to life for the unborn as well. This letter to our incoming President, Barack Obama, emphasizes the importance of the pro-life cause for our faith and, indeed, for all of humanity!

Our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for “sobriety and solidarity” in facing the difficulties ahead in 2009. He asked in a ceremony described here on December 31st that we “be not afraid” of the New Year, in a wonderfully resonant echo of our Lord’s words (in John 6:20).

He further suggested that we draw strength from our hope in “eternal life in communion with Christ and with the whole family of God." (Our Holy Father’s prayer intentions for the new year can be found here.)

Pope Benedict also reminded us that we always have recourse to our Blessed Mother for spiritual help and protection. Indeed, New Year’s Day also marks an important feast in our Liturgical Calendar, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. And, as Deacon Keith Fournier points out in his article on Mary “The Mother of God calls us to be ‘Bearers of God.’”

We here at Our Catholic Prayers wish you all a Blessed 2009 and we thank you for your support!

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