“When we do not worship God, we end up worshiping ourselves,” Pope Francis said Jan. 6 in St. Peter’s Basilica. “Worship means concentrating on what is essential,” he said.

Perhaps we might rethink the tone of our worship to realign it more closely with God’s demands. Maybe we could instruct those who lead worship in justice themes, readings, and songs.

Therefore, we must ask whether it is really a fact that much of our worship has shifted from a focus on God and God’s story to a focus on me and my story.

Lastly, we are not finite beings but eternal beings whose great potential our Father and our Savior most perfectly know. Worship isn’t for God. It’s for us.

It is in this sense that the answer to the question can also be a qualified no. No, we are not praying to the “same” God as far as our images of God are concerned. In fact, this is why we need ...

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When we worship God, even in the comfort of our homes, we make room for Him to move through us. Our way of worshipping Him can be through prayer for others' safety and health.

We must say that although the three Abrahamic faiths all worship the same God, over the centuries that Christianity, Judaism and Islam have existed, there have been times when corrupt and ignorant ...

Hurray! My point here is that this attitude spreads — domestically — like a social disease. If you are a stalwart, unskeptical patriot, you have no choice but to worship the god of violence.

Historically, we have identified our “object of worship”—probably the literal proto-Semitic sense of All_h, El_hîm and Al_h_—as the God of Abraham. And, in general, homo religiosus —within and without ...