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Saint John of Capistrano, Priest

October 23rd, 2010

St. Thomas Aquinas prays thus :- "Fount of mercy call back the one who flees from you. Draw towards you the one who attempts to escape. Lift up the one who has fallen. Support the one who is standing. Guide the one who is on a journey."

God began his Church with a people “consecrated as His very own.” Deut. 14 : 2. How we relate to one another is an indication of how we relate to God. “Love the Lord, your God and your neighbour as yourself.” Deut. 6 : 5

In the Bible, God gradually comes to be seen as a communion of persons. We are drawn into this mystery of Divine sharing. St. John’’s Gospel reflects the unity that exists between God and us. That is the essence of the Church. The Eucharist is a sign of God’s purpose to unite all things in Christ. Here, we meet as God’’s people – as Church. I””m part of the Church – the mystical body of Christ.

Prayer


Prayer : God of love and mercy, you call each of us to discover your Kingdom in our hearts. May the values of the Gospel give meaning and purpose to our lives as we strive to live by them. We thank God for the people who for 2000 years have passed on the heritage of the faith from generation to generation and inspired others to live the Christian way of life. 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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