Monday of 33rd Week, Year II: reflection
Theme: Don’t allow your voice of prayer to go silent
Reading: Lk 18:35-43
"The voice
of prayer is never silent, nor dies the strain of praise away" is a line
from a beautiful old hymn for night prayers, meaning that our prayers and
praises to God should never cease and can never be in vain.
The blind man in
the gospel of today showed us how true the words of this old hymn are. He was
blind and was only surviving by begging for help. Though the people helped him
to recognize the presence of Jesus, they turned around to shut him up when he
started praying to Jesus for help.
However, as we
saw, the blind man never allowed the situation that surrounded him to silence his
voice of prayer; instead, he persisted in his faith and was rewarded.
Dear friends, our
world is full of things that exert negative force on us, things that challenge
our faith in God, and things that often push people to look at prayers as
wasted efforts. They come to us in many forms and shapes. Some of them are temptations,
disappointments, depressions, sicknesses, death of loved ones, hardships,
joblessness, ill-treatment, family problems, etc.
Many people have
stopped praying on account of the severity of these problems. Some claimed they
prayed to God in their moments of difficulty but received no response.
The gospel
reading of today assures us that any voice of prayer that refuses to be
silenced by difficulties will receive a positive answer from God.
So, dear
friends, no matter how tough things are in your life, never allow your voice of
prayer to go silent; never allow the difficult circumstances or negative forces
hovering around you to silence your voice of prayer.
Fr. Isaac Chima.
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