Daily Prayer
July 30th, 2010
"I tell you most solemnly whoever listens to my words and believes in the One who sent me has eternal life"
John 5 : 24 - 25
Jesus came on earth to reveal to us God’s love for all his creatures. This love is all inclusive. There is nothing outside the sphere of God’s love. “In God, we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17 : 28.
Now the universe cann fully respond to the Creator in the person of Jesus. This is INCARNATION. God gives us his own Divine Life to nourish and support us. Through Jesus, we are called into this relationship with God, a relationship of love that will transform and utterly change us.
“God is love and those who live in love live in God.” This love enables us to reach out in love to those around us. This connectedness with God and the universe is our very essence. Through his ability to communicate with God, our creator, Jesus reveals God to us in a new and loving relationship. “God is love and anyone who lives in love lives in God and God lives in him.” John 4 : 16 – 17.
Prayer
Lord, our God, we praise, glorify and thank you for having first loved us and in your love created for us a beautiful world to be our home. In your goodness you share with us your Divine life. All you ask from us is that we love you in return. Lord help us to do your will. 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.”
