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A Year of Prayer
Aleteia EN
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2/2/2024
A reflection upon the Gospel of Mark 1:29-39 and upon the Year of Prayer.
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This year, 2024, Pope Francis has asked us to dedicate it in a special way to prayer,
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and that is to prepare ourselves for next year, 2025, which is the year of Jubilee.
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And we do this at Aletea as part of our mission, because prayer is what motivates
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everything that we do. Prayer is also an important part of what we want to offer
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to you, our readers, to teach you how to pray, and to show you the glories of
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prayer, and the meaning of prayer, and the richness of prayer for the life of faith.
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But also, our Lord himself prayed. Prayer was such a key and integral part of his
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life of priority, as we hear this Sunday in the Gospel, where we read that Jesus
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rising very early before dawn, left and went off to a deserted place where he
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prayed. And we might ask, "Well, why does Jesus pray? Jesus is divine. Why would
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Jesus, who is himself God, go off to pray?" And the answer is because Jesus loves
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his Father, and he wants to live in that love, and experience the joy of that love,
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and even grow in that love. And the best way to do it is in silence and in
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solitude. Solitude is a great, great blessing for us as well. A wonderful
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spiritual writer, the Trappist-Abbot André Louf, says this in one of his books.
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He says, "Each and every solitude throws us back on ourselves and on God, on our
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extreme poverty and God's immense love and kindness." He says, "In this, the faith in
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our heart is burrowed out." A wonderful expression. And he says, "An unsuspected
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depth of being is laid bare." And I don't know about you, but I want to come in to
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touch with the unsuspected depths of being that are within me, that need
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to be laid bare, and that prayer makes possible. He says, "For Jesus, too, learned
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something from solitude." He says, "His full stature as a man he first acquired and
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exercised in the desert alone, in solitude and in silence." So we want to do
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this, too. I know it's difficult. I know it's hard in our busy and
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frantic days with so many distractions and so many things to keep us just from
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being still and silent, to carve out that time for a little solitude. Because as
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Abbott Louf says, "Solitude gives a person release from many false ideas and
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illusions, from myths of every kind. It teaches one how to be an ordinary human
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being, frail and in need of help. And when we come before God in solitude and
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silence, with our frailty and our need for help, all he does is help us. God
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bless you.
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you
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