The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 14

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 13

Reflection Question: Is prayer a relationship to God to you?

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 12

Reflection Question: Is God just a need-fulfiller to you?

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 11

Reflection Question: Is your prayer a means to accomplish your ends or to accomplish the will of God?
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The "irrelevance" of Prayer 10

Reflection Questions: Do you give chance to God to initiate prayer? Do you discover in prayer God's ways for you?

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 9

Rflection Questions: Are you a member of the present consumeristic society? What energy do you spend to have a personal encounter with God?

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 8

Reflection Question: Is praying, knowing and encountering Christ unnecessary and useless to you?

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 7

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 6

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 5

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 4

Reflection Questions: Do you and Jesus live for each other day by day? Is your relationship with Jesus deepening with the years?

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 3

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 2

Reflection Question: Is your prayer something exotic and unreal?

The "Irrelevance" of Prayer 1

Reflection Question: Is prayer a luxury for you?

What is Prayer 12

Reflection Question: How do you know you are talking to God when you pray?

What is Prayer 11

Reflection Questions: Does your heart respond spontaneously to the sacrament of the present moment? How do you do it?

What is Prayer 10

Reflection Questions: Is this slide easily understood by you?How do you make this encounter with God? If you find this encounter easy, please, share with others.

What is Prayer 9

Reflection Questions: Does your prayer consist only in asking for things? How far are you in your dialog with God? Does it become easy to you to dialog with the Lord?

at is Prayer 8

Reflection Questions: Are you well trained in the art of listening? When you answer to God is your answer in accordance what he tells you?

What is Prayer 7

Reflection Questions: How do you open your mind and heart to God? How do you practice receptivity and responsiveness to God in prayer?

Rev. Fr. Gerardo Macapinlac

Today I dedicate my blog to Fr. Macky.

Rev.Fr. Gerardo Macapinlac, SDB, present rector of the provincial house of the Philippine Northern Province and provider of the material needs to the houses of the province, died after a car accident in Hua Hin, Thailand. He had just finished a Salesianity seminar together with other Salesian fathers and brothers from our and neighboring provinces. Let us pray for his eternal rest.

I am sure this seminar has helped him to know Don Bosco and the Salesian charism more profoundly and certainly Don Bosco has been there in heaven to welcome Macky to the Salesian heavenly garden.

Macky has always been a good man. Death did not give him any advice, she came unexpectedly. But for us, members of the Salesian family, who make every month the exercise for a Happy Death, death may come without previous advice because every month we get ready to welcome her. Macky had finished his monthly day of recollection few days before his death. This event tells us that he was ready to welcome death.

Let us learn this beautiful lesson from Macky. Let us make well every month the wise exercise given to us by St. John Bosco, the exercise for a Happy Death. This exercise will help us to be always ready to welcome death. Laging handa!

Christian Prayer 6

Reflection Questions: Is prayer for you really an encounter with God? How do you encounter God in your daily life? How do you behave in that encounter? What happens during the encounter?

Christian Prayer 5

Reflection Question: Do you feel that your prayer depends only on your own efforts?

What is Prayer 4

Reflection Question: What is he role of your heart in prayer?

What is Prayer 3

Reflection Questions: Do you really lift your mind and heart to God whenever you pray? How do you do it in practice? Do you need to recollect yourself?

What is Prayer 2

Reflection Questions: What does it mean to you to be always on the way? How sensitive to the Lord are you in your daily events?

What is Prayer?

Reflection questions: Do you really experience God's voice in your daily life? How?

Unit I. Introduction

Outline of the course

The Prayer of the Disciple of Christ

Rev.Fr. Thomas H. Green: Thank you

Father Green has died few months ago of heart problem. He has written a series of beautiful books about prayer and discernment. He has been my spiritual director for the last few years before his death. I am indebted to him for the books and for the time he dedicated to listening to me in his room at the upper floor of one of the buildings of San Jose Seminary in the Ateneo de Manila.

With his permission and advice I taught a course in the Don Bosco Center of Studies about prayer using the ideas of some of his books. And I feel I can do honor to him by publishing in my blog the slides that I prepared for the course. The contents are found in his books; the selection of the contents and the arrangment of the ideas, and the questions at the end of the slide are mine. I hope these materials will be of help to beginners in prayer.

Let us once in a while say a prayer for the eternal repose of the soul of Fr. Thomas H. Green.

The redemptive value of suffering

What does it mean this expression: The Redemptive value of Suffering?

Jesus is our only redeemer and no other. With his life, passion, death and resurrection he has saved the whole of human kind. Therefore there is no other redeemer of the world, but Jesus.

However, he has wanted to share with us this redemption of the world. Therefore, when we suffer Jesus invites us to join our sufferings to his sufferings. And our sufferings united to the sufferings of Christ gain redemptive value. Christ encourages us to suffer with him and thus share in his passion, death and resurrection.

It is very encouraging to me to think that I can share with my sufferings in the redemption of the world.

Thank you Lord Jesus for being so generous with us. With our sufferings Christ allows us to share in the redemption of the world. I adore you oh Christ for by your sufferings and cross you have redeemed the human kind.