Day 5
Lord, teach us how to pray in secret.
Pray in the secret and silence is very important, there we will find God’s peace and His consolation. So the personal prayer and interaction with God is very essential and He will speak to us secretly. Matthew 6:5–6 (NJB): And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them. In truth I tell you, they have had their reward. 6 But when you pray, go to your private room, shut yourself in, and so pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.
Reading and meditating the Word of God is the best way to get the grace of prayer. We may start praying through the Scriptures till we get the Spirit of Prayer. Jesus asks us make the Word of God our home to grow steadily and constantly to reach and understand the truth about God and His mysteries and it will make us free. ‘If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples; you will come to know the truth and the truth will set you free.’ Jon. 8:31-32. We all would come more closer to Jesus, the intimacy with him. So if we have the zeal for the Word of God then we can be the disciples of Jesus.
St John Chrysotum beautifully says about the prayer: “Prayer is the light of the soul, true knowledge of God, a mediator between God and men. Prayer lifts the soul into the heavens where it hugs God in an indescribable embrace. The soul seeks the milk of God like a baby crying for the breast. It fulfils its own vows and receives in exchange gifts better than anything that can be seen or imagined.”From: Divine Office Prayer Universalis
