Today's Food For Thought

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

Reflection

POPE FRANCIS: ‘PRAYER BRINGS HOPE
IN MOST TROUBLING TIMES’

“Prayer has the power to awaken hope in men and women, even in the face of death and destruction,” Pope Francis said. People often feel unworthy to turn to God when they are in need as if it were a self-interested prayer and, thus, imperfect.

The Pope reflected on the prophet Jonah, a man who first tried to run away from God’s call and initially refused “to place himself at the service of the divine plan of salvation.”

Nevertheless, the story of Jonah is a great lesson about the mercy of God who forgives.

The instinctive horror of death awakens the need to hope in the God of life. People think, perhaps God will think of us and we will not perish. These are the words of hope that become a prayer, that plea full of anguish raised by the lips of man in front of an imminent danger of death.

The people of Ninevah, he added, also had the experience of facing death yet being saved in the end, which led them to know and experience the truth of God’s love.

This experience of God’s divine mercy is a reminder for all men and women to recognise the “surprising occasions of knowing hope and encountering God,” Pope Francis said.

“Prayer brings you to hope,” the Pope said. “And when things become dark, with more prayer there will be more hope.”

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/01/18/prayer-brings-hope-in-most-troubling-times-pope-says/

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