The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Thursday in the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time. Year I, 12 October 2023
Malachi 3:13-20 <*{{{{>< + ><}}}}*> Luke 11:5-13
Forgive us, Father, when prayers confuse us that we sin more against you like those people mentioned by your prophet Malachi in the first reading today:
You have said, “It is vain to serve God, and what do we profit by keeping his command, and going about in penitential dress in awe of the Lord of hosts? Rather must we call the proud blessed; for indeed evildoers prosper, and even tempt God with impunity.”
Malachi 3:14-15
Continue to teach us more about prayer, suffuse us in the light of the Holy Spirit so we may be more pliant and docile to your will, loving Father; empty us of our pride and fill us with Jesus so that we may know him more clearly, love him more dearly, and follow him more closely daily.
Let us realize that you alone, O God, whom we must solely desire in our prayers that is why we must persist and persevere (Lk. 11:9-10) because when we have you, then we have everything! May we keep in mind that prayer is a relationship, O Lord, not a transaction to have things; may we realize that prayer changes the person not the situation; most of all, prayer is more of listening to you than of us speaking for you listen always to our pleas and prayers; you are so good and so loving, God, that you want only the best for us we never realize because we are so occupied with ourselves in prayer not with you. Amen.
