Wednesday’s Wink from Above 10/22/2025 How to Pray?

Fr. Lewis Fiorelli, OSFS wrote in The Spiritual Directory Today, “In Salesian spirituality … union with the will of God must always be situated in the deeper context of a loving, personal relationship with the Beloved that is expressed in and deepened through daily prayer ….” Salesian Scholar Wendy Wright asks, “What claims your love?”  “Where do [your] deepest desires lie?”

To find true peace and contentment we must give our heart, soul & will to God – for God’s good pleasure. The “Source and Summit” of our life is Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and The Our Father is the prayer that Jesus taught us. Today we pray the Our Father because when the Apostles asked Jesus to teach them to pray, He said,

“Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come,

Your will be done, on earth as in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread;

and forgive us our debts,

as we forgive our debtors;

and do not subject us to the final test,

but deliver us from the evil one.” Amen.

 

St. Francis de Sales teaches us, “Do not hurry along and say many things but try to speak from your heart. A single ‘Our Father’ said with feeling has greater value than many said quickly and hurriedly.”  [Sermon in a Sentence, p. 134]

 

Say & pray each phrase to Jesus who is lovingly listening to you.

 

May God Be Praised.