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At every weekday Mass, our priest reads the prayers of the people and then asks the parishioners to add their own prayer requests. When Father Stephen asked this of us Tuesday, I asked for prayers.
Walking Our Faith
I call this column “Walking Our Faith” because I believe the greatest evidence of our faith is how it shows up in our lives. Whether you are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or a good person who believes you don’t need God, your beliefs show up in who you are to the world.
You can sit in a pew every Sunday, but if the rest of the week finds you cheating in business and personal relationships, I doubt anyone will see you as a person of faith.
Yes, we are all human and fail the golden rule on occasion or daily. But I believe the closer our walk with God, the better we will become. If only because when we know better, we do better.
I hurried into 8 a.m. Mass Thursday and saw Father Stephen kneeling at the back of the center aisle silently praying the rosary. After Mass, I asked him why he did that. He gave me.
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My mother and I lived together for 20 years after my father passed away in Kyiv, Ukraine. Mom and I lived and worked together overseas, then in Evergreen, where I bought a house. In 2015, my mother decided to return to her home in Florida.
When she arrived, one of the first places she went was Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, where she had been a member since the 1970s.
Her church was her first stop because church is my mother’s passion and so is God. She spends hours each day reading her Bible and praying, but what she found at Coral Ridge were friends who she had known for decades and new friends who helped her reestablish a sense of being home after so many years away.