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Daily Prayer

September 5th, 2010

"Anyone who has ears for listening should listen’’
Luke 14 : 35

Jesus has been explaining how we never undertake a project without first sitting down and forming a plan of action. Whether it is building a tower or marching to war; these are things not undertaken lightly as all the pros and cons have to be weighed up before a decision is taken. Every aspect has to be taken into consideration. He praises salt for what it is intrinsically and how it becomes useless if it loses its property of saltiness. He is asking us to be worth our salt and we can only accomplish that by listening to him and his message. Without him we are no good to ourselves and to others.  

Prayer


Lord Jesus unblock our ears. Make them ears for listening to you. Your message is certainly demanding . If we listen to you we are not entertaining illusions . Your demands never exceed our abilities because if we have ears to listen to you, you give us the grace to hear your mess-age and put it into practice. Let us find therein the fulfilment which you yourself has destined us for. Give us ears that hear.

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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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