Lord, why do you grant me the grace to see you so clearly, yet deny this same gift to the one whom I so desperately love?

Jesus Christ, you traveled through towns and villages “curing every disease and illness.” Come to our aid now, that we may experience your healing love.

“The function of prayer is not to influence God,” Kierkegaard said, “but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

It is a beautiful thing when the sacred and the quirky come together in such a way that only Catholicism can arrange.