184 Pray Always Without Becoming Weary

YOUCAT Lesson 184

YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth

184  How does the liturgy affect time?

In the liturgy time becomes time for God.

Often we do not know what to do with our time—we look for a pastime.  In the liturgy, time becomes quite dense, because every second is filled with meaning.  When we celebrate the liturgy, we experience the fact that God has sanctified time and made every second a gateway into eternity.

Then he told them a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. –Luke 18:1.

 

  

Photo: …..Don L. Bragg with his Kubota Tractor heading down a woodland trail. …...184.....Often in my activity I find myself repeating in my mind words directed to honoring God.  One of those biblical quotes that come to me are the words of the Patriarch Jacob:  “(Lord)this is the house of God, this is the gateway to heaven” said repeatedly many, many times –compare: Genesis 28:17; Psalm 26:8. 

…….Yet, another (and this one commonly is accompanied in mindful silent prayer with the music learned from a liturgical hymn): “This is the day the Lord has made.  Let us rejoice and be glad.” – Psalm 118:24