Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Monday July 4th

With Fr Dominik OMI

Good morning friends, today we join Fr Dominik of Our Lady of the Wayside parish, Dublin.

The two situations we hear today in the Gospel are quite different from each other. Look at the first one.

One of the officials, who comes to Jesus, bows before Him and says that his daughter has just died. When Jesus arrives, he sees the festival instead of a humble prayer. That’s why he tells them to “GET OUT.” When all the commotion ends, Jesus can PRAY in SILENCE. He holds the girl by hand, and takes her up, to live.

On the way to the dead girl, Jesus is also encountered by a woman, the second person Jesus heals. She suffers from hemorrhage. Even tough she is alive, she suffers enormously, for 12 yers. The woman approaches the Lord from behind. In SILENCE of her heart, she whispers the words of PRAYER: “If I can only touch his cloak I shall be well.”

Couple of days ago, pope Francis issued the document on the sacredness of the Liturgy. That is where, at the Mass, we can encounter our Healing Lord, Jesus Christ. Also pope Benedict was teaching a lot about the holy silence during our Liturgies, he wrote:

“We are realizing more and more clearly that silence is part of the liturgy. We respond, by singing and praying, to the God Who addresses us, but the greater mystery, surpassing all words, summons us to silence. It must, of course, be a silence with content, not just the absence of speech and action. We should expect the liturgy to give us a positive stillness that will restore us.”

I wish my Dear Friends, that in the Liturgy and during your Prayer, when you search for the healing power of Our blessed Lord, you will discover this one as well: the power of prayer in silence.

The whispering mouth of that suffering woman, touching the cloak of the Saviour.

The silent holding hands of that dead girl and Jesus, slowly resorting her to life.

The Peace and silence.

Thank you for joining me today. Have a blessed day!

Praised be Jesus Christ.
And Mary Immaculate.

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