Prayer & God’s Fidelity and Simplicity

 

 

 

 

 

St. Jane advises us that “The best method of prayer is no method at all, buy simply complete openness to whatever God will do in your heart.”

 

Heart here means listening to God in the deepest part of our being, allowing God to direct our lives.  We, then, direct our actions to God as our gift to our loving God. 

     

The saint says, “In prayer more is accomplished by listening than talking….  Prayer is the true life of the soul …[keeping] our will united to that of God in every event.”

 

Further she recommends that we “Follow [our] own way of speaking to our lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as [our] heart dictates.”

 

On prayer this advice from St. Francis de Sales is very important during our COVID 19 Pandemic time, “Let the world turn upside down, let everything be in darkness, in smoke, in uproar—God is with us.”

Regarding God’s fidelity and Simplicity, we learn that “God loves each one of us tenderly and is very creative in attracting us to respond to his invitation…. The divine Heart will never fail you …. His fidelity is greater than our unfaithfulness.”

 

May God Be Praised!

 

 

COVID 19 Pandemic Prayer

 

Hear my cry!  “Lord, listen to my prayer: turn your ear to my appeal.”  You are my refuge and my hope, I turn to you during this COVID 19 Pandemic and plead for Your intercession.  In Your mercy and Your compassion “… grant eternal rest to the dead, comfort to mourners, healing to the sick ….”

[Psalm 143 and Collect from Mass Time in Pandemic]

 

Provide strength to the first responders, compassion to the medical personnel, and wisdom to government leaders.  End this coronavirus scourge.  Send Your light to me as I wander in the darkness of this pandemic and give me hope in Your eternal love today and every day.  Amen.  [Dcn. George Kelly]