Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Today Fr. Romeo said that we have no power except through God. “Spiritual life begins in the beggar. Every prayer is efficacious, but we must have sight to make the journey.”
Our Lord, who had heard Bartimaeus right from the beginning, let him persevere in his prayer. He does the same with you. Jesus hears our cries from the very first, but he waits. He wants us to be convinced that we need him. He wants us to [beg] him, to persist like the blind man waiting by the road from Jericho (St. Josemaría Escrivá).
[I]t is only when we make demands on Christ and come closer to him and he to us that we find ourselves confronted with the question of who we really think Christ is and what we do want Christ to do for us (Martin Ganeri, OP).
“[The] Kyrie eleison… prayer is a plea for God’s effective mercy, the grace that gives us what we need for faithful discipleship at any moment” (Mary M. McGlone, CSJ).
October 28, 2018
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