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Daily Prayer

September 13th, 2010

"I delight to do your will O Lord. Your law is within my heart"
Ps 40 : 8

Whenever news comes through of a catastrophe such as the earthquake in Haiti, or the drastic spillage of oil in the Gulf which has deprived many people of their income, the saying is often heard: ‘Why does God allow these things to happen?’ In both these occurrences, most of us can see that the cause of death and destruction can be placed on either the greed or carelessness of human activity. In the first place, God established the earth and made it to meet human needs – the air we breathe, the land and seas to provide food. This was God’s will and in the Book of Genesis we read that everything God created, God found to be very good..(Gen 1:31).

So it is in our life. In creating us, God saw what he had made and it was very good. Accepting all in my life as a gift from God—his plans for me—I accept God’s will in my life, which brings peace of mind.

Prayer


In my daily life, Lord, help me to see your will; to seek your presence at all times and know that all will be well. Amen.

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Just a Thought

How the Holy Family prayer: A Reflection by Pope Benedict XVI

“I would like to invite you to reflect on the place of prayer in the life of the Holy Family of Nazareth. The home of Nazareth, in fact, is a school of prayer where we learn to listen, to ponder and to penetrate the profound meaning of the manifestation of the Son of God, drawing our example from Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

Pope Paul VI during his visit to Nazareth said “we come to understand the need for a spiritual discipline, if we wish to follow the teaching of the Gospel and become disciples of Christ.” And he added: “First, it teaches us silence. Oh! That there would be reborn in us the esteem for silence, that wonderful and indispensable atmosphere of the spirit: while we are deafened by so many noises, sounds and clamorous voices in the frantic and tumultuous times of modern life. Oh! Silence of Nazareth, teach us to be resolute in good thoughts, intent upon the interior life, ready to listen well to the secret inspirations of God and the exhortations of the true masters.”

We can glean several insights on the Holy Family’s prayer and relationship with God from the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ childhood. We may begin with the Presentation of Jesus in the temple. St. Luke tells us that Mary and Joseph, “when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, brought the child up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord”(2:22). Like every observant Jewish family, Jesus’ parents go up to the temple to consecrate the firstborn son to God and to offer sacrifice. Moved by fidelity to the law’s prescriptions, they set off from Bethlehem and go up to Jerusalem with Jesus, who is now forty days old. Instead of a one-year-old lamb, they present the offering of simple families; that is two young pigeons. The Holy Family’s pilgrimage is one of faith, of the offering of gifts, a symbol of prayer, and of encounter with the Lord, whom Mary and Joseph already see in the son Jesus.”

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