"Christian prayer is always a response to a presence already felt. The awareness of a desire to pray again is already prayer. As the desert fathers so often said, "If you want to pray, you are already praying."

- Edward J. Farrell from Gathering the Fragments

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This picture is one I took when I visited India last January. Here is a man praying at a little outside sanctuary to Mary, in the shadow of the huge cathedral of St. Joseph and St. Philomena, in Mysore, India. It was a great blessing to experience prayer on the other side of the world, with people of many faith traditions.