PRAYING IN THE NAME OF JESUS: OUR COMPLETE JOY
Brothers and sisters,
May the Lord give you peace!
During Easter, we listened to Jesus' "farewell discourses" to his disciples before his Passion. These discourses contain in them the promises which are also called "Promises of the New Covenant," inasmuch as all these, and especially the promise of the Holy Spirit and the divine indwelling (John 14:12-25), are also present in the prophetic writings (Jer 31:33, Ez 36:26-27). We also have the promise that our prayer will be heard and that we will obtain what we ask of the Father in the name of the Son, so that our joy may be complete (John 16:23-28).
Praying in the name of Jesus, in addition to our prayer being heard, will bring us the fullness of joy. The Lord desires the we would understand this aspect: the profound and perennial joy that arises from union with God, a joy rooted in the very life of the Trinity, which begins the moment we enter into relationship with the Father through His Son. All of this points to a foretaste of the eternal joy of heaven, where love for God will find its perfection.
If we desire this joy, we also have the means to achieve it: to worship God before the Eucharist with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. Let us adore and praise the Lord by spending time on our knees when He manifests Himself in the Holy Sacrifice, when He is exposed in every Eucharistic adoration, and when He remains present in the Tabernacle; let this be the foundation of our prayer.
The month of June, dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, will help us pray and adore the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity and the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. We therefore worship here in Gethsemane, a place of prayer, by turning our gaze to the Father, in the name of Jesus, so that the prayers and intentions of so many who ask to be remembered may be heard. We believe that the Lord will hear our prayers and that He alone can fill us with countless blessings, especially by granting us the gift of complete joy and true peace!
Be blessed from the Garden of the Lord.
