Reflection Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. The heart of Christianity is our Lord Jesus Christ while the heart of our relationship with Jesus is our prayer life. To keep ones relationship with Jesus alive and strong, one needs to have a consistent prayer life. Consistency means being faithful to a prayer life that we fully give to our Lord. Our relationship with our Lord like any interpersonal relationship calls for discipline and to a great extent depends on discipline. Our faithfulness to Jesus in prayer forms a part of our response to His love. This means that we all need to have a fixed amount of time everyday dedicated to prayer and to give exclusively to our Lord. If it is true that our Lord has a very important place in our hearts then we should be able to find time to pray to Him and be with Him. Our fidelity to a regular schedule and amount of prayer time for the Lord is one measure of how much we love our Lord. We need to be faithful to our commitment to regularly pray to our Lord, fellowship with Him and commune with Him as it is during these quiet times with our Lord when He pours His transforming grace into our hearts and molds us into the kind of servant that He wants us to be. Just as an athletes physical fitness can be summarized in ones training and exercise, our discipleship in Christ is a function of ones prayer life. But for both to work, there should be consistency. Just a little time for exercise, each and every day. Just a little time, each and everyday... time set aside for God. When we are consistent in our fellowship with God in prayer, loving and serving our brothers and sisters becomes second nature. We become Christ for others, men for others. “Beloved, you are faithful in all you do for the brothers and sisters, especially for strangers; they have testified to your love before the Church. Please help them in a way worthy of God to continue their journey. For they have set out for the sake of the Name and are accepting nothing from the pagans. Therefore, we ought to support such persons, so that we may be co-workers in the truth.” 3 John 5-8 One sure way we can respond to our Lord’s exhortation is to abide by His Word and His Will and to make our lives a prayer in itself, an offering worthy to be given to our Lord. Let us start our day with the Morning Offering: O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of Your Sacred Heart, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in reparation for my sins, for the intentions of all my relatives and friends, and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father. Amen. Direction Our prayer life should be consistent and simple, full of love for our Lord neighbor and with great openness to follow His lead. Prayer Heavenly Father, teach me to pray. Give me the grace to persevere and deepen my prayer life and enable me to bring Christ to all men. In Him, I pray. Amen.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:38:58 +0000
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