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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

I invite you to go to church, to visit a church, to visit the Lord who is
present in the church and to recollect yourself and meditate. It can be for five
minutes, it can be for 15 minutes, it can be for an hour. The length of time spent
in prayer is not important, what is important is getting up and going to church
to meditate.

It could happen to you , as it has to me, that you see someone who is
troubled, who is worried about an illness in the family, who prays at home but
when confronted with this pain and suffering, would rather pray in a Church.
Therefore, she comes and knocks at the door to ask for someone to open the
church so she can go in, pray, and pull herself together.

I invite us to find the sense of personal prayer in the Church. It is okay to
pray elsewhere as well, but it does strengthen the unity of our life of prayer.
This is because the church is really a place dedicated to prayer. There is a Grace
given to us when we pray in the church. Let us rediscover our personal prayer
there and also give thanks to God for our communal prayer in the Church.

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