{"id":9,"date":"2010-04-25T10:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:48:48","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/statue-100904-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/statue-100904-05-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Praying Statue\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Last night in a homily at <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter-libertytown.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Peter&#8217;s<\/a>, Fr. Brett shared a prayer he teaches people to pray:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;God, I want to want what you want.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Does it really need to be any more complicated than this?<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Brett is vice-rector at the nearby Mount St. Mary&#8217;s Seminary and assists Fr. Jason with the Mass schedule on occasion.\u00a0 He has also authored a book on discerning a vocation to the diocesan priesthood called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vianneyvocations.com\/\" target=\"_self\">To Save A Thousand Souls &#8212; <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vianneyvocations.com\/\" target=\"_self\">A Guide to Discerning a Vocation to Diocesan Priesthood<\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night in a homily at St. Peter&#8217;s, Fr. Brett shared a prayer he teaches people to pray: &#8220;God, I want to want what you want.&#8221; Does it really need to be any more complicated than this? Fr. Brett is vice-rector at the nearby Mount St. Mary&#8217;s Seminary and assists Fr. Jason with the Mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}