1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,640 My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:10,240 you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with profound 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:14,480 reverence. I ask you for pardon of my sins 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,320 and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. 5 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:25,640 My mother, Immaculate St Joseph, my father, Lord, my guardian 6 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:48,900 Angel, intercede for me. We get today a scene in the 7 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:54,540 Gospel which has a a double miracle and and it's it's a very 8 00:00:54,540 --> 00:00:56,300 nice scene described by Saint Mark. 9 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:59,980 I think it's quite nice because it just gives us an impression 10 00:01:00,580 --> 00:01:06,100 of how just intensely busy Jesus was in his public life. 11 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,720 There wasn't just one thing after another, but it was one 12 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,120 thing on top of another one thing as we see in today's 13 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,720 gospel, one thing within another. 14 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,280 So there's so much happening with her Lord. 15 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,120 And in today's in today's gospel, our Lord is on route to 16 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:28,520 Kafernam to heal the daughter of an official of the synagogue. 17 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:36,480 This, this man who Jairus who comes to Jesus and and falls at 18 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:41,120 his and falls at your feet, Lord, and, and, and begs you for 19 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,760 the cure of his daughter who's dying. 20 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:49,120 And so Jesus very kindly begins to head in the direction of 21 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,760 Caffernau. But en route, again, we're told 22 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,520 there's very deliberately, we're told by saying Mark, there's 23 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,320 people pressing all around him and pressing really means 24 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,960 pressing against him and grabbing him and very physical, 25 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,920 I suppose. But then there was this one 26 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:13,600 woman, of course, with a flux of blood, who comes along having 27 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,080 heard about Jesus, comes up behind him through the ground 28 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,760 very quietly and twitched his cloak. 29 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:28,120 Nothing more gets down versus gets down low between everybody 30 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,040 and and just twitch twitches the hem of of our Lords cloak 31 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,560 because she told herself if I can twitch even his clothes, I 32 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,240 shall be well again. She says of a great conviction. 33 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,720 Well, that's all I have to do and I will be well. 34 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,040 I know it. And and she was dead right. 35 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:53,240 The this bleeding which had been with her for 12 years dries up 36 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,080 instantly. She felt immediately that she 37 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:02,680 was cured and the strange thing she thought that would be it and 38 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,800 that she could just slip away having got her her miracle. 39 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:15,320 But Jesus turns round and the crowd stops, stops everything 40 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:23,120 and and as that question which leaves his his apostles 41 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,800 completely perplexed. Who touched my clothes? 42 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,680 Because I suppose in the last couple of minutes, dozens of 43 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,600 people have touched the glows of Jesus, dozens upon dozens 44 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,880 pressing against Jesus, manhandling you, Lord, I 45 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,360 suppose. And, and yet the of all these 46 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:51,200 people grabbing you and, and, and touching you, Jesus, only 47 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,280 one person really touched you. And that was this. 48 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,800 That was this woman. And so this is a great lesson to 49 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:05,040 us in our prayer in our prayer and error sacraments. 50 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,920 We know that all the sacraments is a is a physical touching of 51 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,800 our Lord in all the sacraments. The humanity of Jesus is working 52 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,399 and there involves some kind of touching. 53 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,560 It requires there's no sacrament with without physical presence. 54 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,840 This is why it's still, it's funny, it's still COVID is now 55 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,560 distant history, but people have still come up and they talk as 56 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,800 if they, they couldn't go to mass, they couldn't go to mass 57 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,320 physically. So they went to mass online. 58 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,600 And, and I have to tell them when look, if you're meeting a 59 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:50,440 friend and you say, well, I'll just, I'll just download a 60 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,320 photograph and, and, and talk to talk to the photograph. 61 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,840 Well, you're not being your friend. 62 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,440 There's no real presence with a friend. 63 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:01,680 You're just looking at a photograph. 64 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:07,560 And so going online to Mass is not going to Mass it. 65 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,200 During COVID, of course it was. It was allowed to be a 66 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,160 substitute, but nobody was ever saying that was Mass. 67 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,640 So I'm going to confuse people a bit. 68 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,240 Is there anything about the sacrament of the Mass? 69 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,840 We're touching our Lord. Our Lord wants to touch people 70 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,200 and and you, Jesus want people to touch you. 71 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,880 Now, when we say this touching, obviously we have the touching 72 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,000 in, in there's so the intimate, the most intimate touching of 73 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,960 all in, in, in the mass when we receive Jesus in the Eucharist 74 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,040 and he he comes into our very body and and he's there 75 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,920 physically present as long as the the Eucharistic species are 76 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:50,600 there. But you can also say that when 77 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,560 we're praying, we also have to touch Jesus in our prayer as we 78 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,760 are like now before you, Lord, in this time of prayer, but we 79 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:06,120 have to touch you. This woman touches our Lord, not 80 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,680 just you could say just physically with the the finger 81 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,440 touching the hem of his cloak, but she touches Jesus with her 82 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,120 faith because Jesus says to my daughter, your faith is your 83 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,960 torture to health. Go on peace and be free from 84 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,760 your complaint. So is the physical combined with 85 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:30,720 this interior disposition and and her beautiful faith that all 86 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,320 I that's all I have to do not and I would say not it wasn't a 87 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,480 magical kind of way. It's it was maybe I suppose 88 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,920 because of such awareness or such reverence for the real 89 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:47,760 presence of Jesus and such awareness of his goodness and 90 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,240 his power. And so it was not just the kind 91 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,880 of the physical act of touching that was part of it, but also 92 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:00,760 was interior her faith. And so you think of us now in in 93 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:05,040 our prayer when well, we're blessed to be physically in your 94 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,960 presence Jesus and almost touching. 95 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:09,920 But we will all touch you in a moment in the mass. 96 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,080 But then touching you in in this is a way that this woman touches 97 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,680 you in this faith that she has my daughter. 98 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,920 Your faith is restored to the hath going peace. 99 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:24,280 Do I twitch our Lord in my prayer? 100 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,960 Is he even in the just the common meaning of the word? 101 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,440 Is Jesus touched by our prayer? You know when you you find 102 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,400 somebody who says something very touching and it's just a 103 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,320 conversation you're touched by what they say. 104 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:44,440 Do I touch Jesus in my prayer? Because it would be very easy 105 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,000 for us to be here very much like those others who are. 106 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,800 You're visibly present, piling around you or piling on top of 107 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,600 you virtually. And you, none of them twitches 108 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,960 you, none is it twitch you because there's something just 109 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,360 in all of them that's lucky, and you might say that's lucky is 110 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,280 the personal touch. Never say anything to our Lord. 111 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,360 So I'll just grab him and, and, and and almost just, I don't 112 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,080 know, something deeply impersonal, but their, their 113 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:17,960 interaction with Jesus. There's in a sense, there's, 114 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,800 there's only a, you know, it's, it's kind of rare enough to see 115 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:27,080 people who approach Jesus in this very personal way, very 116 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:28,920 twitching way. You want to put it that way? 117 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,600 The Cyrophenician woman is a very good example. 118 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,720 So she comes up and she finds it very hard to get near you, Lord, 119 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,080 because the apostles are trying to fob her off. 120 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,280 But when she finally does, she begs, Jesus, drive the demon out 121 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:47,720 of her daughter and our Lord, almost feigning distance. 122 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,400 First let the children eat all they want, He told her. 123 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,600 It's not right for the to take the children's bread and toss it 124 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,040 to the dogs. Lord, she replied, even the dogs 125 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,800 under the table eat the children's crumbs. 126 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:08,680 Then he told her, for such a reply, you may go, the demon has 127 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,280 left your daughter for such a reply. 128 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,640 It touches our Lord, not just Cos it's kind of very clever. 129 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,080 It is kind of clever. This lady observes every day 130 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,040 relaxing children. The the children's crumbs fall 131 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,000 on the table and those who are not part of the family, the, 132 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,040 the, the Jewish race. In this case, they, they, they 133 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,560 do get the crumbs and and it's a beautiful reply and it's a 134 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,840 beautiful reply that twitches you, Lord. 135 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:38,200 And so it's got a very I think it's a very important question 136 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,040 for us because you know, there is a danger day in day out, 137 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,840 morning in morning out my prayer. 138 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,080 Yes, I was there. Lord, did I twitch you? 139 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,760 No. And please God not our Father 140 00:09:53,760 --> 00:10:03,440 says, lose the fear of calling the Lord by his name, Jesus, and 141 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:08,440 tell him that you love him. They feel like very simple 142 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:14,120 thing, not Lord, but Jesus. And very simply Lord, I love you 143 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:19,120 Jesus, I love you on the scene. I love to see you in the gospel. 144 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:24,120 I wish I were like this woman in my prayer wheresoever like the 145 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,880 desire of Phineasian woman, even Jesus. 146 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:33,640 I'm sorry that my prayer at times is so distant actually 147 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,880 that I'm not there with you. I'm not engaged with you. 148 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,960 I'm not saying loving things to you. 149 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,720 And it's funny because you know our our father often does that, 150 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,840 you know, to to say loving things to him. 151 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,360 Don't be such a cold fish with Jesus, whatever, but with other 152 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,320 people. Don't be a cold fish with Jesus 153 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,720 in your prayer. And as was even less in our 154 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,160 Thanksgiving, but certainly now in our prayer. 155 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,920 You know, it's, I suppose, you know, we all have the experience 156 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,480 in, in, in conversing with people and somebody's warm and 157 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,320 somebody's cold and somebody's great affection for us and 158 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:18,440 somebody's no affection. They're choke and cheese and so 159 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:25,320 looking at our conversation now daily, how much how much warmth 160 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,600 is there just human warmth. Tell him that you love him, our 161 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,200 Father. You can see really from our 162 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,640 Father, our Father's prayer full of faith, but a full of real 163 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,000 warmth. Tell him that you love him 164 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,840 anyway. The journey continues and, and, 165 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:49,120 and you, Lord, get to the House of the siren, the, the official 166 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:54,200 of the synagogue in Caffernau. I remember all those people 167 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,480 keening outside, the keeners totally. 168 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,160 They're just paid to do it. There's nothing very sincere 169 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:04,240 about their keening. But you don't go in, you, you, 170 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,840 you, you get them all out of the house. 171 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,600 And you, you go in with, with the parents and with some of the 172 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,600 apostles. And taking the child by the 173 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:23,320 hand, he said to her, Talitha Kum, which means little girl, I 174 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,640 tell you to get up. The little girl got up at once 175 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:32,000 and began to walk about, for she was 12 years old. 176 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,320 There's two things here which immediately link up with what 177 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,480 we've just seen, and maybe that's the reason Mark puts them 178 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,440 together. One thing is she is as old as 179 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,000 the flux of blood that the woman we've just seen had. 180 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,240 I don't know if there's a significance in that kind of 181 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,520 suspect. There is. 182 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,160 You know, she's she's 12 years old and that woman had her 183 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,880 flexible blood for 12 years. But there's something more 184 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:03,240 important because this miracle also involves touching and that 185 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:08,160 is that you, Jesus took the child by the hand saying those 186 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,480 words don't need to call me. You take her by the hand. 187 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:18,480 Once again, there's no miracle without touching, but funny in 188 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,280 this case, of course this girl didn't ask. 189 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,960 She's dead. She's been dead for an hour or 190 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,280 whatever. And and so she, of course, she 191 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,840 didn't ask for anything. It was the father who asked. 192 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:36,720 The father begged and we're told by Saint Mark this synagogue 193 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:41,040 official came came up Gyrus by name seeing him fed on his feet 194 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,880 and pleaded with him earnestly. That's the way it puts it in the 195 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:51,800 Gospel Parakali Parakali, the Greek for intense pleading. 196 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,840 But that's not enough Paula much so not just intense bleeding 197 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,600 much intense pleading translated plead with him earnestly. 198 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,560 So it's kind of interesting that it's it's emphasised there that 199 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,960 he really prays this this man, he really prays for his beloved 200 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:17,000 12 year old daughter saying my little daughter's desperately 201 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,440 sick. Do come and lay your hands on 202 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,680 her to make her better and save her now. 203 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,520 And and at this stage, our Lord is nowhere near Caffernau. 204 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,760 When, when this this official comes and it's quite, a quite a 205 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,480 distance. And yet Jesus sets off to the 206 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,120 house. She's went with him and a large 207 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,800 crowd followed him. They were all pressing around 208 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,480 him. So think of this, this other 209 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,840 kind of aspect of our prayer. So in this twitching our Lord 210 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,240 that we see in the first part twitching him with a heartfelt 211 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,240 prayer, saying things from our heart, not being a cold fish 212 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,920 with Jesus, not being afraid to call him Jesus. 213 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:06,040 And here prayer, petition for others, intense prayer, again, 214 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:11,800 pleading earnestly. And we have to pray, pray for 215 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:16,520 things and for others, prayer petition and, and, and in a 216 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,320 certain way to really try to touch our Lord again, it's the 217 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,360 same thing trying to touch our Lord. 218 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,560 And because, you know, it's not automatic, I suppose you could 219 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,440 say that we're here, we pray. But again, unfortunately, just 220 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,640 like I suppose many people in a certain sense, I suppose it's 221 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:39,560 fair to say that many people didn't get, you could say they 222 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,280 weren't as successful as this gyrus or successful as the woman 223 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,440 with the flux of blood because they didn't know how to twitch 224 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,720 Jesus with their prayer for themselves or for others or for 225 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,720 something. They didn't know how to twitch 226 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,000 our Lord. And so it is a kind of no, it's 227 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,880 a kind of skill, but it's because it comes from love and 228 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:06,840 faith and our our Father encouraging his some of the 229 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:13,440 fellows to pray for cash that they needed in in the 1930s. 230 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,760 This is an advice to one of them is who writes to Melissa Manolo. 231 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,680 Make yourself like a child before the Tabernacle. 232 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,200 The first thing you sound like a child before the Tabernacle and 233 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:34,360 pray this prayer to Jesus with simplicity, confidence and 234 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,800 boldness and perseverance. And this is the prayer Lord, we 235 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:44,840 want for you 25,000 Besantas in cold, hard cash and that's the 236 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,080 prayer so very specific but and and they get it. 237 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,760 But our father saying look, because obviously this way he 238 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,920 prays before Jesus simple, confident, bold and persevering 239 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,040 like a child in front of Jesus, which is very nice and the 240 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,920 children, of course, get to Jesus. 241 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:08,839 So we want to be like, like, like children in front of, of 242 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:10,560 Jesus. We want to be demanding in the 243 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,720 way little children are demanding of their, their 244 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,000 parents or siblings. Give me this, you know, they, 245 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,800 they don't, they don't know the kind of good manners of 246 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,560 politeness in that sense. Give me this, I want this, my 247 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,440 little brother. When we revisit our aunt, I was 248 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,240 always very embarrassed by it. We'd arrive at the door, she'd 249 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,280 open the door. Auntie Mora, lovely lady. 250 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:36,880 Oh, there were tweedies was the first word he said tweedies and 251 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:42,080 the only word he said tweedies. And, and he got them. 252 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,760 He got his tweedies. Just a little child demanding. 253 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,400 That's what I want, tweedies. And so with our Lord being 254 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:56,360 demanding in our petition is a sign of piety. 255 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,960 This is from somebody rather, although it might seem at first 256 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,640 sign sight a sign of selfishness, it's just the 257 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,920 opposite. Since the prayer petition 258 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,840 requires complete abandonment to God's will. 259 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,920 When we sense we are children without any resources, how 260 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:19,000 natural it is to turn to God and ask him for grace, help, and 261 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,440 forgiveness. Been demanding. 262 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,480 We just said it in the Psalm 2 posture Edmund Dabo di pigente 263 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,000 Sarita tum tum a possessing tomb. 264 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,600 Terry Mino's Terry ask of me you are my son begins over that. 265 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,640 Of course you are my child ask of me and I will give you the 266 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:39,040 peoples that there as as your inheritance and as your 267 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,360 possession. I will give you the ends of the 268 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:46,480 earth but but to begin postulate, I may ask me and so 269 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,720 we're supposed to do that ask Jesus if I'm not mistaken, this 270 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:57,120 Spanish word pedigueno pedirist. I ask you word pedigueno. 271 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,640 There are Father used be very pedigueno in your prayer ask a 272 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,280 lot in your prayer and for all kinds of things asking or we 273 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:11,040 need the we need the 25 percent, 25,000 percentas we need this. 274 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,960 I need that something in my health. 275 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,160 Lord, I want this my throat today, same place. 276 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,440 I don't know if you're hoping for a blessing, but but wouldn't 277 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,000 you do I want my throat. I want my throat healed. 278 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:31,880 So we ask for things with this complete abandonment to God's 279 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,960 will. But I, you know, there, I 280 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,160 suppose in a sense there might be a little bit of a danger of 281 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,640 phoning away from asking for things beyond. 282 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:44,440 I never get them for Lord never grants me my petitions. 283 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:49,800 But you know, whatever it is that we, we, we might be a bit 284 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:55,080 bit like that, that, that we, we kind of, yeah, we pray, we, we 285 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:56,720 come to do our prayer and this kind of thing. 286 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,360 But I actually don't ask Jesus very much for things, certainly 287 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,920 not very specific things. Little little miracles really, 288 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,720 that I don't ask for them. That would be a great pity. 289 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,240 And I suppose ultimately we pick our pity because gonna be a sign 290 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,400 that we're we're no longer, you know, see ourselves with little 291 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:18,200 children before God and that we ask, we say, Lord, I want this 292 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,760 knowing, of course, that if I don't get it is because I get 293 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,960 something else and probably something that's better. 294 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,720 That's the only reason I don't get it if I ask with 295 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,480 perseverance or or else I'm not asking. 296 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,240 We're perseverance. Sorry, in in in in a kind of 297 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,880 pious way. But otherwise, you know, you can 298 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,480 imagine you'd order. Well, you just ask knock and the 299 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:40,760 door should be open to your knock. 300 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:44,920 Ask and there's so much to ask for, for for ourselves, let 301 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:49,320 alone others again, even just the most kind of kind of 302 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,000 material things. I want it like this. 303 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,680 I need that and, and what if it's good for me and, and our 304 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,760 Lord will give it to me? Now with this, of course, our 305 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,600 prayer petition for others is very, very important. 306 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:09,920 Pope Francis in Gaudet de Exultate is a very interesting 307 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:15,280 little passage which says in reality our prayer will be all 308 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:20,880 the more pleasing to God and more effective for our growth 309 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:26,440 and holiness if through intercession, we attempt to 310 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,720 practise the twofold commandment that Jesus left us. 311 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,840 Intercessory prayer is an expression of our fraternal 312 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,400 concern for others. Very interesting. 313 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,920 Do I care about others? OK, The litmus, litmus test is 314 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,120 do I pray for them? And that is, that's kind of 315 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,440 that's, that's it. Do I remember people, you know, 316 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,160 people's petitions saying things that they ask for me, but then 317 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,320 even things that I'm not asked, do I do I find myself praying 318 00:21:58,320 --> 00:21:59,520 for them? The very thing is very 319 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:00,960 important. We have to pray for ourselves, 320 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,800 but we also have to pray for others. 321 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,120 And this is the expression of our fraternal concern for the 322 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,000 others. And it goes on since we are able 323 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,880 to embrace their lives, their deepest troubles and their 324 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,320 loftiest dreams. And and and today's gospel is 325 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:23,760 very beautiful Gyrus you know that he doesn't ask anything for 326 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,040 himself, but it's it's very nice that Mark is saying it's not 327 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,760 it's not wrong that you ask for things for yourself like the the 328 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,720 woman with the flux of blood 12 years with that flux. 329 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,360 But in Jarvis's case, of course, the the child is dying and he 330 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,960 couldn't care about anything else. 331 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,320 This is the only thing that matters the only thing his 332 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,480 daughter pleading earnestly moving our Lord's heart with his 333 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,200 love for her. But like those four men who 334 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,640 carry the paralytic on the the stretcher, you know, their, 335 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,600 their, their love, seeing their faith. 336 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,400 We, we, we, it says in the gospel. 337 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,880 But imagine that you Jesus seen their faith, seen their love 338 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,880 also that that that led them to bring Jesus to bring the this 339 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,240 man before Jesus. No, no, not, not, not so 340 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,680 concerned about themselves. Just this man very nice. 341 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,880 So this is also a big part of our prayer, embracing the lives 342 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,720 of of these of others. There, there, there. 343 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,200 Embrace their deepest troubles, their loftiest dreams. 344 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:31,200 Only those who commit themselves generously to intercessory, 345 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,240 intercessory prayer, only to them can we apply the words of 346 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,840 Scripture. This is a man who loves the 347 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,480 brethren and prays much for the people from the book of 348 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,480 Maccabees, which we use actually, I think in the common 349 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,600 for pastors, a very different translation. 350 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,840 But the man who, who's prays much for people, always 351 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:58,800 interceding, praying for others and, and, and perhaps it could 352 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:05,800 be a nice thing for us to do, praying for, praying for these 353 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:11,200 who are even, you know, thinking of, you could say people are 354 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,920 already sick spiritually, even people who've died, because this 355 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,000 girl has died, this 12 year old girl, she's dead. 356 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,720 And, and, and there's a symbolism there, of course, 357 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,920 where spiritual sickness and spiritual death, she can do 358 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,880 nothing for herself. The only thing that can save her 359 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,560 is the intercessory prayer of her father who loves her so 360 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,000 much. And I suppose that happens so 361 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,160 much, You know, in our case, she says that we know so many people 362 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,520 who are very sick who are close to spiritual death. 363 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:48,080 And unfortunately, we know many others who are spiritually dead. 364 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,840 At least we suspect they're spiritually, they're not in a 365 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,120 state of grace. And maybe they haven't been for 366 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:56,400 a long time. And, and, and our prayer for 367 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,520 them is so important. It's amazing as a confessor, 368 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,760 it's amazing. And it's it's kind of becoming 369 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,600 more frequent. People come into confession, 370 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,720 Father figuring for our sin. It is 18 years since my last 371 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,560 confession. Everyone pretty recently like 372 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:12,760 that. That's happening quite 373 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,680 frequently now it is 18 years since or whatever numbers 20 374 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,320 years since my last confession, many years since my last 375 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,160 confession. And it's a huge grace that moves 376 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,720 them to come to confession. And I always think, what is this 377 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,680 person here because of the prayers of their grandmother or 378 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,440 their grandfather? Are you who never though prayed 379 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,400 for them and who died when a their grandson had gone off the 380 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,400 rails when in secondary school? And that there was, you know, 381 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,040 there was yet regarding their faith that somebody or maybe a 382 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:51,200 mother or father praying like Gyrus, you know, heal my child 383 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:57,080 very is very sick, dying even dead and praying and praying and 384 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,560 praying to come in and take that person out of their their like 385 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,720 the girl little girl. She's there in some kind of dark 386 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,600 limbo stone dead and in this dark, dark limbo. 387 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,400 And, and it requires you, Jesus to take her by the hand, but it 388 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,280 requires the, the loving prayers of her father. 389 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,720 And so us, who do I pray? Who am I praying for now? 390 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:24,080 Who am I planning to pray for in the Mass that we're about to 391 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,480 celebrate? Who will I remember, especially 392 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:32,640 in this in this Mass, who's who's dying or dead and will 393 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,400 remain dead if I don't pray for them? 394 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,000 I suppose there are, you know, there may be there's many people 395 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:41,080 like that that you'd order same. Well, you know, great that you 396 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,360 pray for your your intentions and that good. 397 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:47,000 But look, other people need you to pray for them. 398 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:56,120 I heard of of a lady in a supernumerum in in Boston who 399 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:02,480 she for, for for a good while and her final, final illness. 400 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,920 She had a brain tumour and was in the language area of the 401 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:14,600 brain, so she couldn't talk or work with text that that was 402 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,960 just gone by the because of the tumour. 403 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,600 And here she died. And at the, at the funeral, I 404 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,680 forgot who was telling me this, but at the funeral at the back 405 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,680 of the church there, they'd left a binder. 406 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,680 It was her family left a binder and it was her binder. 407 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,440 It was something she had with her in her in her sick band and 408 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,360 that she would use every day. And it was just full of pictures 409 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:47,320 of those people she was praying for and and on on on on Page 1 410 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,120 was the father. But pictures because she 411 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:53,320 couldn't work with their names and text. 412 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,400 So it was pictures. So I suppose you could check the 413 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,600 binder and see was your was your was your, was your picture in 414 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,200 there. It was very, very nice that 415 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,760 their Lady obviously would have loved to not on her a lot on her 416 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,520 plate with the brain tumour dying. 417 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,720 And yet in this binder she was praying for these, all these 418 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,640 people in there. Their little picture there in 419 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,640 the binder is very beautiful. So thinking the people were 420 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,320 praying for, praying for their vocation. 421 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,120 They were a great gift maybe for for friends of ours, praying for 422 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:28,400 the gift of vocation for them and that they would find their 423 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,960 vocation in life, whatever it might be. 424 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,120 Anyway, we finish up turning to Our Lady and think of her 425 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,640 intercessory prayer. This was the the one that we see 426 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,440 most clearly is in in Cana, in Cana, where nothing would have 427 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,000 happened without the intercession of Our Lady. 428 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,800 And of course, our anything that Our Lady says to Jesus moves 429 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,400 him, touches him. It's impossible for Our Lady to 430 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,600 say anything to Jesus except that it twitches to Jesus and 431 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,120 very deeply. And that's why, of course, we go 432 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,360 through the intercession of Our Lady in so many things or maybe 433 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,960 in a certain sense in everything that they're at the intercession 434 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,960 of our ladies involved. But but she gives us that great 435 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,240 example. You know, she touches Jesus 436 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,800 because she is her faith and her love are just so just at the 437 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,720 maximum that they can be her faith and her love in Jesus and 438 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,080 and how she touches him with this request that even startles 439 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,520 Jesus. But if her if she is asked of 440 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,720 that our Lord is touched immediately. 441 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,120 She wants this. So we're going to ask Connie to 442 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,400 give us the grace help us there would never do prayer and never, 443 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:42,040 never attend Mass in this kind of cold way, distant way that 444 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,360 fails to touch Jesus that those prayers fail to reach the heart 445 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,320 of Jesus because they're not said with love or faith. 446 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,400 But we that we anyway ask her need to to give us this grace to 447 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,280 to touch her to touch Jesus, rather to touch him with her 448 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:06,240 prayer of petition. I give you thanks to my God for 449 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,920 the good resolutions, affections, and inspirations you 450 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,280 have communicated to me in this meditation. 451 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,160 I ask you for help to put them into effect. 452 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:21,200 My mother, Michael St Joseph, my father, Lord, my guardian Angel, 453 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:22,280 intercede.