Aspirational prayers

“There is a balm in Gilead;” so goes the great old hymn and “like a bridge over troubled waters” goes the lyric to a song by Simon and Garfunkel. Jesus is the one who has laid down His life on the Cross of Calvary as a bridge to rescue you and me by His victory over Satan, sin, evil and death. In the Catholic Christian tradition it is believed that all the graces that flow to us, flow from the…