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It seems like I’ve been in a bit of a prayer rut lately. Maybe it’s the changing season; maybe it’s that I am undergoing some kind of change myself. I dunno. But I do know that I have felt an absence of something, or perhaps not so much an absence of something as a deep-seated yearning for something more.

Enter the social utilities where I play a bit throughout the day. Many of you come to the forums here at Rosary Army. Others participate in any number of opportunities to twitter, plurk, pownce, rejaw and otherwise microblog your activities throughout the day. These utilities are wonderful ways for us to connect to a community of faithful Catholics that share our lives in all the mundane and dramatic turns that make us human.

One of my plurky friends, Edgar the Mexican, announces the Angelus daily. Okay, it’s not a ringing bell, but it is a call to prayer nonetheless. Do churches outside of Rome even ring the bells anymore? Anyway, in his own gentle and not at all in-your-face kind of way, he simply announces the Angelus. If the intent to pray is a prayer in and of itself, then I have been praying along with Edagr every time he posts.

It’s not enough though. I mean, I’m not looking for a short cut. When my friend Linda asked me recently if I ever pray the Angelus, well, it was clearly more than a coincidence. One thing is running across a prayer while visiting Catholic websites, where, frankly, it’s kind of expected, it’s quite another to be out for lunch with a friend and have the topic come up.

So, I got the message. Loud and clear. Maybe this is what was I was yearning for. Maybe, within the prayer is the one thing that I need to change. Maybe, just maybe, I’m getting better at listening to God.

Here’s the part that moves me, that makes me pause and really submit:

Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
Be it done unto me according to thy word.

Join me, Edgar, and the Church universal in this call to prayer. See ya at noon!