An Invitation to Pray with Father Josh during COVID-19

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Father Josh shares a message of hope and perseverance for these escalating times of COVID-19. He reminds us how to pray Lectio Divina, modeling this spiritual exercise as he reflects on the way the apostle John responded when Jesus was taken away from him.

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0:00.0	brothers and sisters in Christ, the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. I am currently in
0:09.4	prayer for you. My heart is with you as I am sitting with our Lord right now in the company of
0:17.0	the Blessed Sacrament. I cannot imagine what you're going through, not having access to Jesus in
0:27.8	His sacrament of Presence in this season of Lent right now. I can't imagine what you're going
0:32.4	through, but I do want to encourage you to bring your thoughts and your feelings and your desires
0:40.8	to Jesus in prayer, to acknowledge every single thought, every single feeling and every single
0:48.4	desire to relate it to God. And then to go with Him in the Word and scribe the sacred scriptures
0:54.8	to receive a message from Him and then respond. Respond to that message in your walk toward
1:03.5	becoming the particular saint that God is calling you to be. So this morning as I've been praying,
1:09.6	I have been drawn to a pastor from the Gospel of John from Alexio Davina and remember Alexio
1:15.2	Davina has four traditional steps. I like to add the fifth step. The four steps are reading
1:20.6	what does the text say in and of itself meditating. What does the text say to me?
1:26.7	praying having a conversation with Jesus about what the text says to me, contemplating,
1:31.7	sitting in the presence of the love of my life. And then I had the fifth step of a resolution,
1:38.1	which is to come up with a concrete action based on my time reading and meditating, praying and
1:43.1	contemplating. So I'm going to read you the passage from the Word of God from the Gospel of Matthew.
1:51.2	I've chapter nine verses 14 and 15. The sacred text says this, then the disciples of John
1:58.2	approached him and said, why do we in the Pharisees fast much? But your disciples do not fast.
2:06.4	Jesus answered them, can the wedding guest mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?
2:10.9	The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast.
2:18.2	The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast.
2:28.0	So that's the first thing. We just read what the text said that the disciples of John approached
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