Continuing his series on the Four Holy Habits, Bishop Donald Hying turns to the second habit: daily prayer. At its heart, prayer is communion with God. Bishop Hying looks to the prayer life of Jesus himself, who spent whole nights absorbed in prayer to the Father, as the model for our own prayers. He explores the many forms prayer can take, from the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours to the Rosary, Lectio Divina, meditation, and contemplation, and offers honest encouragement for anyone who struggles to focus or feels they don't know how to pray. His practical advice for beginning: start small, start with the Gospel of Mark, and trust that the Lord will do the rest.

Bishop Donald Hying opens a four-part series on the Four Holy Habits – the simple spiritual practices he has invited every Catholic in the Diocese of Madison to embrace since launching the Go Make Disciples initiative. He begins with the first and most important: keeping holy the Sabbath. Bishop Hying reflects on why each Sunday is a "mini Easter," why the Eucharist stands at the very center of Catholic life, and what it would mean to reclaim Sunday not only as a day for Mass but as a true day of rest, worship, and time with those we love.

Show Notes
In this episode, Bishop Hying references Dies Domini ("The Lord's Day"), St. John Paul II's 1998 apostolic letter on keeping the Lord's Day holy. Read the full text at the Vatican website: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1998/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_05071998_dies-domini.html

In the second of a two-part conversation, Bishop Donald Hying and Fr. David Carrano turn from why young people are searching to what happens when they find the Church. Fr. Carrano, pastor of the St. Paul University Catholic Center at UW-Madison, describes the peer-to-peer ministry at the heart of St. Paul's – students, interns, and missionaries who build the bridges that lead others to Christ – and the remarkable number of students received into the Church this year. Together they consider what parishes might learn from campus ministry, and why teaching people to pray may be the most important work of all.