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Today’s Gospel continues a series of Gospel reflections on prayer. Coming before the Lord with our need, our sinfulness, our openness to God must be the starting point for our prayer.
On the level of experience, the true sacred always reveals that: God is One and for all.
Daniel Comboni’s first missionary trip to Africa ended in failure. He returned home to Italy and came up with the idea to directly involve African Christians in evangelizing their sisters and brothers. This inclusive effort bore much fruit.
Whatever the circumstances of our life, repentance has to be part of it. We are all sinners and we all need to acknowledge our sinfulness.
We seem to know God only by relating to God, almost as if God refuses to be known apart from love. It is all about relationship.
In prayer we often come face-to-face with our own mysterious reality. But in prayer, may we be comforted that we are bringing to God more than just our words; we are bringing to God our hearts.
The life of a hermit living in the desert strikes many people as mysterious, if not inexplicable. Yet this is what Saint Hilarion, and many others, sought and hoped for and, in some cases, fought for. They teach the value of solitude and prayer to our noisy and busy world.
Whenever Kyle Kramer’s column, “At Home on Earth, ” lands in my inbox for proofreading, I am of two minds.
The signs of God’s plans are neither few nor hidden. A person who is spiritually alert will know what signs to read to prepare himself for what the Lord has in store.
The final and full word, therefore, is that the authority of the Bible lies not just in ancient texts but in the living Christ of history: church, community, and our own experience confirming its truth.
