Break free from summer’s spiritual dog days
Cathleen Falsani offers seven things to do during the summer in the Chicago Sun-Times,
2) Pray, by yourself, with others, online
There are myriad Web sites where you can leave a prayer request, pick up someone else’s prayer request to pray for, be guided in prayer by clergy, or join in a prayer chain. Beliefnet.com has scads of different online prayer chat rooms where you pray with others for yourself, family and friends or strangers.
Among the more interesting Web-based prayer sites I found while killing some dog-day time earlier this week was Sacred Space, a site run by the Jesuit fathers in Ireland. At www.sacredspace.ie, the kind Irish priests will guide you through a 10-minute prayer session right at your computer, with on-screen cues and scripture passages chosen especially for each day. It’s free.