Lord, Teach us to pray! (DR CANALS) I AM ALWAYS WITH YOU ¡Pray, brethren! Listen and ponder these words the priest pronounced during the Mass, the faithful in the face, opening his arms in a gesture of charity and almost pleading voice. With the same words, the same tone of supplication and the strength of the deep conviction that God has put in my priestly soul, you want to repeat in the ear in these moments of recollection: it says is necessary; Have prayer! Protects and promotes your spirit of prayer. One of the greatest treasures that owns our Mother Church, is the prayer of his sons and their daughters. She has your prayer to recover and grow. It has a vital need of silence and the activity of your prayer. This, then, you and I, to fuse us and imbue ourselves with this sense of responsibility: we put into our life, in our daily life, a little time to devote to mental prayer, if you did not do it; and if the level of our days we've had already, some time to devote to the intimacy with God, persevere in our purpose and improve our prayer life. You remember that passage of Scripture which tells the tremendous battle fought by the chosen people against Amalecites? While the Hebrew army fought the plan, Moissi, the leader of Israel, the Lord prayed with arms outstretched, if followed Moissi arms outstretched - that is, if his prayer to God was intense and persevering victory smiled the men of Israel; but Moissi arms, overcome by fatigue, is low, the victory of God's people moved away. Then -¿ you remember? - The two who accompanied Moissi made him sit on stones and holding his arms until the victory was complete and final triumph You and I have to persuade ourselves increasingly (and this is what we are doing now) the need of our prayer for the Church and win their battles so that we could also win daily battles of our interior life. This conviction will strengthen and force our arms outstretched in our prayer life. Meditation often about the need for prayer will lead us by the hand, to look for a spiritual direction and would periodically person, the priest who can hold their own words and his advice of our fatigued, outstretched arms, in moments of difficulty or dryness. And we also act excite so many arms extended in prayer persevering to sustain an effective apostolate, arms extended to many other souls of prayer. We hear again the voice of the Church:¡Pray, brethren! ¡Pray! ... Now feel that the purpose of prayer and improve our prayer life is extended spontaneously in our soul. But our prayer is always concrete. Specific prayer is really influencing our lives; the problems faced by value and firm search for the light of Jesus; which actively prevents unconscious tendency to keep open the wounds of self-love; which accepts God's will and strives to fulfill it with love; which penetrates with its fertility silent all the twists and turns of our soul and every moment of our days; that it becomes a cold study or in a vacuum and foolish sentimentality; which turns off the protests of pride and envy pangs of jealousy and resentment. Concretion, concretion in our prayer, this elevation of the mind and heart to God to adore him, thank him and ask him light and strength. I have met and disoriented petty souls, victims of their sentence sterile souls of prayer which was uprooted from the life at the beginning of his days, put Jesus in a corner of his soul, but he denied any interference the rest of the day; was similar to those of noon Sunday Masses so that little or no influence in the lives of many Christians. In concrete and fervent prayer each day renewed and strengthen your tendency to holiness: Ignites the fire in my meditation. to know Jesus Christ and his doctrine you will become familiar and you know well yourself: if I would know You, I will know myself. With prayer you will defend of your enemies and conquer in all your battles; your hand will be armed and you will cover with the cuirass of Christ, according to the invitation of the Apostle . “Cover you with
our Lord Jesus Christ�. In your daily prayer discover the reason of your apostolate; convey to others your meditations. Everything you say and advise in your apostolate of friendship and confidence will carry the stamp of things experienced and tested, which is the seal of efficiency and consistency. The prayer life must be defended as is defended a treasure: the Church has need of it, because it sure foundation of our holiness, and because our Lord went all when he said: It should always pray. . Real enemies of your prayer are: imagination - the "crazy of the house" - She mobs and distracts with the flights and their tricks your wake and little mortified enses and lack of remote preparation: if you want to call the differently, call it dissipació- this is why you are so far from God our Lord when you start your prayer; Your mortified little heart... little purified, little detached from the things of the earth, that patch of mud wings of your soul and prevents you raise any greater intimacy with God; the lack of effort and genuine interest on your part in the moments when you get face to face with the Lord. Before finishing, Jesus repeats, through the Virgin Mary, who is famous eminent glass of your devotion, mystical Rose. Your devotio- The humble words and full of confidence of Apostles: Lord, Teach us to pray!