Program: #4805
Topic: Prayer
First air date November 7, 2004
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
God called Christopher Botti to carry on a family business that reaches back several centuries.

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Sermon Segment

 
Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B., Executive Director of BenetVision and former prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, speaks about the interior life. She says, “The interior life is a walk through darkness with the God within us, who leads us beyond and out of ourselves to become a living vessel of divine life let loose upon the world.”

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Music Segment


Gerald Anderson (pianist) performs his arrangement of the hymn “Near to the Heart of God” at St. James Cathedral in Chicago.

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Interview Segment

 
Host Lydia Talbot talks with Sr. Joan Chittister. She says, “Once I hear the cry of the poor in the Psalms and I see the cry of the poor on the block in which I live, there is no way that praying those Psalms can be real for me if I don’t make them real on the block on which I live.”

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Reflection Segment

 
Writer Roman Catholic layperson, Tom McGrath, says that every moment of our life can be a prayer.

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