3.13.15

 Lectio: Lk 18.9-14                               

 Meditatio: "He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteous and despised everyone else.” Lk 18.9

 Oratio: O God, You desire a humble and contrite heart from those who seek You in prayer. I remember Your Son told a parable about a Pharisee and a Tax Collector who went up to the Temple to pray. In prayer approach God as a child with openeness and without guile for that is the message of Jesus’s parable.

 I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
 and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

 Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what God is saying.

Operatio: reflect: "parable...convinced...righteous...despised”; prayer is not about giving God an inventory of what we do that is good and what others are doing that is wrong; humility and not self-righteousness is what God desires from us when we go to Him in prayer.  Seek the grace to pray with confidence to our Father knowing that He will give us what we truly need as His children and focus on ourselves and not on negativity.   

 Tomorrow's reading: Jn 3.14-21