St. Francis de Sales said, “Prayer accustoms our soul to the presence of God, to produce in us a union with Him which is intimate, simple and perfect.”  St. Thomas Aquinas said, "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Friendship with God through His Son Jesus Christ is a blessed gift, may we use this gift of friendship through prayer to grow ever closer to God.  Friendship with God takes place within the Trinity, Who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Here is a powerful prayer offered by St. John Henry Newman, “Make me preach you without preaching ...

Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as you shine,
so to shine as to be a light to others.

The light, O Jesus, will be all from you.
It will be you who shines through me upon others.

Give light to them as well as to me;
light them with me, through me.

Make me preach you without preaching —
not by words, but by my example
and by the sympathetic influence, of what I do —
by my visible resemblance to Your saints,
and the evident fullness of the love which my heart bears to you.”

Sometime today write your own personal prayer to God, God is waiting to hear from you.

May God Be Praised!