Daily Prayer

Day 2

Lord, Teach us to Pray 

  The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray: He said to them, 'When you pray, this is what to say: Father, may your name be held holy, your kingdom come; 3 give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, 4 for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us. And do not put us to the test.’ LK 11: 2-4. Jesus teaches us how to pray, and gives us the Holy Spirit to guide us to pray. We have to start our prayer life with a small act of constant prayer. 

When we get up from bed, we should remember our God and lift our hands and hearts to Heaven. Then, with a grateful heart we should say, one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be. This is what Br. Joemon taught me to grow in prayer during the first years of my Community life. It was difficult at first for me to get that constancy in prayer, to say this simple and short prayer without forgetting the intentions. It has taken months for me to get that grace to pray.