‘Prayer is for Everyone’

Prayer can be both something that looks simple but can be very difficult. We go through seasons where we find it easier to pray and seasons where it is harder. All of us are called by the Lord to spend time with Him in prayer and this relationship is as individual as each one of us. However, just as human relationships require effort, so does our prayerful relationship with God. Working at it and encountering difficulties doesn’t make us ‘failures’ in the Christian faith, it is perfectly normal and means that we are open to God taking us deeper into His love.

As we approach October, the Church invites us to meditate particularly on the Most Holy Rosary. This particular way of praying is accessible to all of us. It isn’t something that is ‘rote’ or a series of steps for completion of a task. Instead, the rosary allows us through the familiar prayers of our faith to enter the mystery of God’s saving work through the prayers of Our Lady. Whether we have the time to do a whole rosary or just one decade, we are all invited to join the universal Church at prayer in this most beautiful way.

I particularly encourage and invite parents/grandparents/other family members to help children to pray the rosary in whatever way they can. We must never underestimate the power of children’s prayers and the role they play in the life of the Church. The Lord’s call to prayer and relationship is for everyone and the rosary’s is a wonderfully accessible way for children’s prayer lives to deepen and flourish. 

May Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary pray for you and all you love to her beloved Son.

With every blessing for the week ahead,

Fr Gary