Twenty Ninth Sunday

10-13-2019Weekly ReflectionFr. Bing Colasito

“Pray always without becoming weary.” (Lk. 18:5)

Jesus tells us to pray without ceasing. Praying unceasingly is not a practice in futility but a witness of a trusting and living faith. God is infinitely much better than the wicked judge who succumbed to the persistency of the widow only because he fears being bothered constantly by the widow. God is not bothered by our persistency, because He sees a living faith behind it, faith that believes that God listens to our prayer. “He prays without ceasing he who prays with good works and works with prayerful spirit. Only thus can we pray without ceasing as we have been commanded.” (CCC 2742-2745)

The effectiveness of prayer depends on one’s faith, prayer nourishes faith, but faith, in turn grows when it is a practiced or lived prayer. Do I have persistency in my prayer? Do I believe that God listens to my prayer?

Be in God,

Fr. Bing