Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Prayer by Jesus for the Disciples


A spiritual leader praying for his followers is something beautiful and teaches all of us a lesson. He prayed for them because he knew them well as weak human beings. He has knew their initial intentions of becoming powerful and famous. Jesus does not disappoint them but gives them what they never dreamt of that is the spiritual healing power. The prayer of Jesus for the disciples is to remain united and faithful as a group. Today even we have have the same problem of being faithful and we need prayers so that we may not compromise our charism and values as capuchins. Today many are getting lost with material things at the cost of spiritual wealth. As Capuchins we know that we don't belong to this world but of the spiritual world where Jesus is the lord and Master. Let us not lose ourselves in pursuit of earthly wealth. 
We Capuchins, while we live in the world, don't belong to the world. Since we don't belong to the world, we should be focusing our sights on the heavenly things. But we find ourselves too preoccupied with the earthly things. Sometimes we take the risk to plan our life here on earth without taking into account the fact that we won't and can't stay here on earth forever. We task ourselves working, toiling and living as if we will live here forever. The problem is that being catechized by the world, we have grown roots to the world. Our feet are firmly and solidly planted on this earth that it is difficult to fly up to heaven. We dread the day we die because we start doubting if eternal life exists or not. When we fly in a plane, we have more confidence knowing that eventually we will arrive at our destination. We know that such a place exists and the pilot will fly us there. But in this "flight" we have on earth, sometimes we forget that we have a destination to reach. We forget that we are "parishioners" or pilgrims on earth traveling to our final goal or destination of heaven. That is why Christ is praying for us to believe in him and to consecrate ourselves to the truth which is his word. (Daily Homily)

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