“HONEY FROM THE ROCK”
Thursday, 27th October 2016,
Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time
Eph 6:10-20;
Ps 143:1-2, 9-10;
Lk 13:31-35
CEASELESS PRAYER!
The Letter to the Ephesians has an aim of building up the Christian community through love and unity. Today we had the final instruction: “Pray at all times in the Spirit”. Often our prayers end up in reciting certain formulas or reflecting upon some passage of the scriptures or asking for our needs from God and saints.
Prayer is a constant loving attention to God or “our gaze is more than ever firmly set on the face of the Lord” (John Paul II). Praying is being in personal loving intimacy with God, sharing in the unconditional and gratuitous love of God. It is the joining of man or woman with God in intimate communion. This is possible in the silence of the heart. This relationship can be built only through a life of virtues. This is what we heard in the reading of today. We are instructed to be wary against the wiles of the devil, be determined in our effort in being with God, be truthful, righteous and with a sense of Gospel peace. Our virtuous life will be a life always praying in the Spirit.
Prayer: O Lord, bring forth in me all the virtues proper to my state of life so that I may grow in my life of prayer. Amen.
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