Fr Peter Ireorji, MSP - Homily from Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018

And Jesus told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart Lk 18:1. The heart of Christianity is our Lord Jesus Christ while the heart of our relationship with Jesus is our prayer life. To keep one’s relationship with Jesus alive and strong, one needs to have a consistent prayer life. Consistency means being faithful to a prayer life that we fully give to our Lord. Our relationship with our Lord like any interpersonal relationship calls for discipline and to a great extent depends on discipline. Our faithfulness to Jesus in prayer forms a part of our response to His love. This means that we all need to have a fixed amount of time everyday dedicated to prayer and to give exclusively to our Lord. If it is true that our Lord has a very important place in our hearts then we should be able to find time to pray to Him and be with Him. Our fidelity to a regular schedule and amount of prayer time for the Lord is one measure of how much we love our Lord. When we are consistent in our fellowship with God in prayer, loving and serving our brothers and sisters becomes second nature. Do you have a special burden or request? Keep on praying! Trust your loving heavenly Father to answer according to His wisdom and timing. God honors persistent prayer. Shalom!