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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 65 - Tuesday, May 19, 2020

“Rediscovering Prayer”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Looking back over the path we have trod, what have you learned about the
importance and place of personal prayer and family prayer in your life?
We never stop learning. We have learned something during this pandemic. If
we look back on our own experience, we should have been able to learn about
prayer. What could you been able to learn about the time given to prayer either
alone or with the family, and the importance of putting aside time to pray?
The question becomes how to continue afterwards, in the aftermath of
deconfinement, in the wake of the opening of the church doors. How can we
continue to pray personally and to pray as a family? To pray is always
important and the two ways do not work against each other, they are comple-
mentary. Personal prayer is part of Christian life because we are children of
God. Family prayer is part of Christian life because we, the family exists! The
family exists as a community before God, as a full community before God, a
cell of society, a cell of the Church. For that reason family prayer is very
important.
How can we continue in a world of “new normal” and possibly of “normal”,
how can we continue to give this importance to personal prayer, to family
prayer?
I invite you to think about that and to imagine yourselves into the future. Ask
yourselves how you and your families, together, will continue to give import-
ance to family prayer.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 76