Pray with Fervour

Today’s Scripture:  And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean." 41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I will; be clean." 42 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 43 And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once, 44 and said to him, "See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to the people." 45 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter. Mark 1:40-45

Reflection:  There are so many who approach the Lord in prayer, some invoke, some praise, some thank, some plead and demand.  The other extreme we see is that of avoidance and shunning the divine, some ignore, or care less or make a cold hearted prayer or follow a routine readymade prayer or pray the prayer for every occasion or recite the novena for favours.

The intensity of prayer depends on the need of a person or the passion in ones soul or the love of a simple heart. In the gospel reading of today we see one such instance of a prayer of great intensity.

A good prayer often expresses the true desire and feeing of the heart to a God who is with us at that very level of emotions and feelings and waits on him to correct what is inappropriate in these expressions of the human heart.  He created them and he understands them as the sincere expressions of the human heart and corrects what is not appropriate.

Prayer: Lord, let me not suppress what you have created when in your presence and seek your corrections where required.

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