In August, I emailed my priest, Fr. Mark Burke, to ask for help living with my parents during COVID. We talked, and he included a prayer:
You can grow in your faith if you ask God for the grace to see your parents as He does. Ask for the grace to listen to them better. Let your faith be manifest in your charity. God gently will work through you, even if you’re unaware.
that I prayed, and later realized applied to more than my parents. I’ve come to see it as a statement of my values in life, and often the nearest I have to an answer to “what does it mean for me to be Catholic here?”
It’s largely about listening.
