know how to pray - 2nd week friday 2015

We continue reflecting on the letter to the Hebrews.  Today the letter talks of the old covenant and the new covenant.  The old covenant with Moses was written in stone.  The new covenant however will be engraved in the hearts and minds of the people.  The new covenant is referred to as the better covenant because it is enacted on better promises.  Quoting the prophet Jeremiah God said to the prophet, I will be their God and they shall be my people.  This is no longer something merely legal rather it becomes more personal.  The covenant is no longer enacted as something formal, distant and even aloof but it is one of friendship, one that is characterized by closeness and intimacy.

No longer shall people say Know the Lord.  Nobody is going to say that anymore.  Why?  Because all will come to know him, and they will come to know him in their heart.

I have often repeated this quotation from Pope Benedict XVI about vocation discernment.  He simply said, Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.

Many of you might be wondering what are we doing thrice a week before the Blessed Sacrament.  We just sit down in silence, we hear nothing, we talk nothing, we are just there and Jesus is just there.  And this is my point - Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.  God will show you your vocation, if you pray, if your pray deep enough.

As I often say to you during meditation, sit down, just sit down and sit still.  It's not what you do, it's what God does to you, what you allow God to do to you.  So just sit still and pray.