They are my prayer after reading the news of a mass shooting, ever since the Sandy Hook shootings in Newtown, Conn. I prayed them again on Aug. 27, after the shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis during a school-wide Mass. Mr. Frey posted his speech to social media, introducing it with “words aren’t enough” and framing it as a call for better gun policy. We also need to recognize, however, that our proven inability to respond to the particularly American scourge of gun violence and school shootings is not only a political problem but a spiritual one. But we need to want to say it, and we need to want to say it together, and right now we cannot.