Learning To Pray

"—Today is the day you are going to be healed! Jesus is in town!, said Jonathan. —Are you bringing him here?, asked Zaccaria from his bed; —Nope! Actually you are going to see him. I'm taking you out of here, said Jonathan holding a few ropes in his hands. Joel and Joshua arrived at that point; —Let's do it!, Joel shouted. Jonathan knew that today was going to be a memorable one and said: Yeah, he...

"Don't let your life be barren. Be useful. Make yourself felt. Shine forth with the torch of your faith and your love. With your apostolic life, wipe out the trail of filth and slime left by the corrupt sowers of hatred. And set aflame all the ways of the earth with the fire of Christ that you bear in your heart." (St Josemaria)

"First of all you apostolic soul; first of all you." (St Josemaria)

What makes you exceptional is what the Lord said in the last lines of the sermon of the mountain if you practice it and make it a reality in your daily life.

I desire to go to the utmost depths of silence until I reach where only God is; where not even the angels can enter without our permission... and there, to adore God, to praise him and tell him loving things." (Blessed Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri)

Depending on the attitude you approach Jesus with amazing things will or will not happen to you.

This meditation invites to take action in the most important thing of our lives: Holiness.

"And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[c] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’" (St Matthew)

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." (St Paul)

Do you want to know how God speaks to us? Keep listening.

"You are in love if you are sorry for your venial sins." (St Josemaria)

"It has already been commented on in the introduction to ti bok. no one give whar they do noc have. We will not be able to help others fall in love with Jesus Christ if we are not in love with Him. It seems like a truism, but it is the truest statement in the world. Formative agents know, as Jesus himself says in the Gospel, that the task is to shepherd and confirm those the Lord has entrusted to...

Let's Go Get ’em 1 In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!" Jesus rebuked him and said, "Be quiet! Come out of him!" Then the demon threw the man down in front of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. 2...

EVERY SINGLE DAY IS DIFFERENT —From the Gospel: Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He...

"2710 The choice of the time and duration of the prayer arises from a determined will, revealing the secrets of the heart. One does not undertake contemplative prayer only when one has the time: one makes time for the Lord, with the firm determination not to give up, no matter what trials and dryness one may encounter. One cannot always meditate, but one can always enter into inner prayer, indepen...

"Youth is not a period of life, but an attitude, an inner mood, which is based on victory over oneself in the small things of everyday life. One does not become old for having lived many years, but for having betrayed his ideals. You are as young as your dreams and as old as your apathy and your lack of enthusiasm.” (A Spanish philosopher).

A teenager named Alex always saw his father as just a regular dad who worked long hours at an office job. One day, Alex's class takes a field trip to the local hospital. As they tour the facility, Alex notices people keep stopping to greet his father respectfully. Nurses and doctors approach him for advice, and even the hospital director comes to shake his hand. Confused, Alex asks a nearby nurse...

"How good it is to stand before a crucifix, or on our knees before the Blessed Sacrament, and simply to be in his presence! How much good it does us when he once more touches our lives and impels us to share his new life! What then happens is that “we speak of what we have seen and heard” (1 Jn 1:3). The best incentive for sharing the Gospel comes from contemplating it with love, lingering over it...

"A lukewarm heart becomes self-absorbed in lazy living and it stifles the fire of love. The lukewarm person lives to satisfy his or her own convenience, which is never enough, and in that way is never satisfied; gradually such a Christian ends up being content with a mediocre life." (Pope Francis)

"Life grows by being given away, and it weakens in isolation and comfort. Indeed, those who enjoy life most are those who leave security on the shore and become excited by the mission of communicating life to others". (Pope Francis)

"The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept his offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness." (Pope Francis)

"There's no greater love than this: the one who lays down his life for his friends." (The Lord).

"Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them-not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away." (St Peter)

"Have some backbone; develop some inner resilience." (Fr. Eric Nicolai)

"Simon, you will be called Cefas that means rock." (The Lord)