Talk on Prayer and its Deeper Purpose, Tuesday, 23 May, 12:45 - 1:45 PM by Father Donald Haggerty (In-Person & Zoom)
Please join in for this talk by Father Donald Haggerty who will present on the "Prayer and its Deeper Purpose: Why Pray If God Already Knows Everything?" at Secretariat Building S-18MM2. Please email us if you need help entering the building!
The presence of prayer in human lives displays immense differences and variations. The commitment to a particular religious faith naturally affects the practice of prayer, but even within a shared religious faith, there are vast differences among people in the pursuit of prayer. People who do pray with some degree of dedicated effort often have reasons we might not suspect. Indeed, a sense of God and the experience of faith – and how deep they are -- cannot but influence a personal approach to prayer. The talk will address the deeper attraction that prayer can assume in our lives. Part of that question is to face objections to the notion of prayer, as in the subtitle. But our primary effort will be to engage the real desire we have as human persons for an interior depth of spirit and an engagement with the mystery of God.
Speaker: Father Donald Haggerty
Topic: Prayer and its Deeper Purpose: Why Pray If God Already Knows Everything
Venue: Secretariat Building S-18MM2
Date/Time: Tuesday, 23 May, 12:45 - 1:45 PM EST
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/join (Meeting ID: 9173535387 & Passcode: 9173535387)
Speaker Bio: Father Donald Haggerty, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of New York, has served at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan for the last seven years. He taught in seminaries for twenty years, including the New York Archdiocesan seminary, and for 30 years has given numerous retreats across the world to the Missionaries of Charity, the religious congregation of Mother Teresa of Kolkata. Between 2011 and 2015, he lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia while teaching and helping these same sisters of Mother Teresa in their work for the poor. He is the author of five books on prayer and contemplative spirituality. The most recent was published last year by Ignatius Press: Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation.