This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for and you can hit pause and do a brief

examination of conscience. Today I am very jet-lagged for my return from Jerusalem.

And during my time alone with Jesus in prayer, I had no profound thoughts or feelings,

but I spent time with him. So is that a time of good prayer or bad prayer?

I think one obstacle to prayer is to worry too much about whether we're doing it right or wrong.

The fact is, as Theresa of Avala says, that meditative prayer is nothing else

than a close sharing between friends. It means taking time frequently to be alone

with him who we know loves us. Not every time in prayer is going to be filled with captivating ideas and strong emotions.

Prayer is friendship with God, and friendship grows in depth by spending time together.

Most of the time we spend with friends does not result in revolutionary ideas or with strong movements of the emotions.

Yet by the fact of spending time together, we of the

movements

we become better friends.

Prayer is the same.

If we spend time with Jesus every day in prayer,

it doesn't matter how well we think it went, because just by

the very fact of intentionally spending time with God, we grow closer to Him. Just persevere in time with him every day.

That's really all we need to do.

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