Gospel: Luke
6:12-19
Jesus
departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When
day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve,
whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother
Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of
Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas
Iscariot, who became a traitor.
And he
came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of
his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal
region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and
even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the
crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them
all.
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Reflection:
Is prayer
part of your life that it seems that your day is not complete without prayer? Before
making the very important decision of choosing His apostles Jesus went first to
a mountain to pray. There, He spent the night in prayer to God.
Prayer is
our hotline to God this is our means to connect with Him. Through our prayer we
invite God to come into our lives. With our regular habit of prayer the God
that is distant now becomes the God that is with us and the God that walks with
us.
What does
prayer brings us? Through our prayer we connect with God, thru prayer God calms
us, God comforts us, God guides us and He gives us wisdom to make the right
decisions in life, to name a few.
Who
amongst us wouldn’t want God to be with us and walk with us? Of course we all
want the presence of God in our lives this is the reason why we must always have
time for God through our prayer. Our prayer life must not take a backseat over
our worldly undertakings; it must be prayer first before our many worldly activities.
What would our worldly riches mean to us if we
don’t pray? What is the use of wealth
and power if God is just a superficial entity in our lives or if we are without God? Someday we will die and everything that we
have accumulated in this world will not anymore matter to us. What will only
matter during that time is our relationship with God built through our active
and fervent prayer life.
Do you
always give first priority to your prayer life? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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