25th Anniversary of the National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family (2013)

As we celebrate this twenty fifth anniversary of African American and African Catholic Familyhood, let’s hand over our lives and our families to God. Let’s stand together in our families, stirring the “pot of prayer” in our kitchens, sharing and living the Word of God in our living rooms and resting in the arms of our God in our bedrooms. For God’s arms are not too short to reach us and God’s ears are not deaf to our every call and plea. Let us seek rest in those places from the same God that St. Augustine called on, whispering the name of Jesus on our knees before we sleep and as we rise for “we are restless until we rest in God.”

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