As Jesus travels through the villages and as his ministry expands, he is asked a lot of questions. Today, he is asked if only a few will be saved. We do not know how many will be saved or how God will judge us. Today, Jesus challenges us to enter through the narrow gate, to be true to the values of our faith.
As we continue on our own journeys of faith, we think about how the Lord can lead us and guide us in life. Many times, we may struggle to discern God’s will for us in our everyday life. Jesus is not with us today in the modern world to answer our questions in his flesh and blood like he did in answer to the questions of the people of Ancient Israel who heard his proclamation of the kingdom first-hand. Back in July of 2019, I spent more than a month praying the Ignition exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola in Spain, listening to God speak to me through a disciplined method of prayer and silence. At first, it was difficult and challenging praying in such an intense disciplined way each day. But, as the days went by, I appreciated that time experiencing God in that form of prayer, especially in the way we reflected upon Sacred Scripture in a very imaginative way. There is no magic formula as to how to pray to God. Prayer is a relationship. Prayer is experiencing God as a reality in our lives. God may not be with us in flesh and blood in the form of the historical Jesus who lived in Ancient Israel. But God is indeed present to us in so many ways and he communicates with us in our prayers.
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