Praying the Our Father and living it will lead us toward
saintliness. The Our Father contains everything: God, ourselves, our neighbors
. . .
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 37
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
June 29
Every day at communion time, I communicate two of my
feelings to Jesus. One is gratefulness, because he has helped me to persevere
until today.
The other is a request: teach me to pray.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 36
June 28
I am asked what is one to do to be sure that one is
following the way of salvation. I answer: “Love God. And, above all, pray.”
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 36
June 27
There is a prayer that the Missionaries of Charity pray
every day. Cardinal Newman wrote it:
Jesus, help me to spread your fragrance wherever I am.
Fill my heart with your Spirit and your life.
Penetrate my being and take such hold of me that my life becomes
a radiation of your own life.
Give your light through me and remain in me in such a way that
every soul I come in contact with can feel your presence in me.
May people not see me, but see you in me. Remain in me, so
that I shine with your light, and may others be illuminated by my light.
All light will come from you, Oh Jesus.
Not even the smallest ray of light will be mine. You will illuminate
others through me.
Place on my lips your greatest praise, illuminating others
around me.
May I preach you with actions more than with words, with the
example of my actions, with the visible light of the love that comes from you
to my heart.
Amen.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 34-35
June 26
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the
hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of
our hearts.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 33
June 25
Make us, Lord, worthy to serve our brothers and sisters
who are scattered all over the world, who live and die alone and poor. Give them
today, using our hands, their daily bread. And, using our love, give them peace
and happiness.
Amen.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 33
June 24
I think that every time we say the Our Father, God looks
at his hands, where we are etched. “See, I have inscribed you on the palms of
my hands . . .” (Isaiah 49:16).
What a beautiful description and also expressive of the
personal love God feels for each one of us!
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 32
June 23
The apostles did not know how to pray, and they asked
Jesus to teach them. He, then, taught them the Our Father.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 32
June 22
My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ
is to love him.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 31
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
June 21
The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of
prayer are people of silence.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 31
June 20
Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument
of your peace:
where there is hatred
let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Lord, may I not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
Because it is in giving that we receive,
in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 30
June 19
Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets
service on behalf of the poor.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 29
June 18
To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially
to love the poor, is a twenty-four-hour prayer.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 28
June 17
It is not necessary to always be meditating, nor to
consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how
nice this would be.
What matters is being with
him, living in him, in his will.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 28
June 16
Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but
that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 28
June 15
There are some people who, in order not to pray, use as an
excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents them from praying. This
cannot be.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 28
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