General. To serve God with a chaste heart requires the divine sustenance of the Eucharist. In attending for Sunday Eucharist we become aware of Jesus’ sacrifice for the redemption of sins, loving us as sinners when we sinned against his and His Father’s love. One way of making a sacrifice of our lives is by submitting our will to that of the Father, as we pray in the Lord’s Prayer, does mortifying our ego to let the Father’s take over our self-fulfilling personalities.

Exodus. A person who has faith finds his sustenance in prayer even when confronted with supercilious efforts to overcome him. Such is the story of Moses, to whom faith gave humility and so the will to subjugate his will to that of God, come what may, knowing that anything bid by God is for his good, even if this is not immediately recognized by him or his people.

Second Epistle to Timothy. Submission to God also implies the acceptance of God’s Word as given to us through Scripture, even if it is not always to our liking because it warns and chides us. Yet Scipture affords the Christian salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, in whose name he has been baptized. As in Christ, perfection is achieved by listening and being obedient to the Word of God.

St Luke. Prayer has to be persistent and unyielding. It all depends on and is a matter of faith which can move mountains but about which Christ himself questions whether he would find any in his Second Coming. Then, if one has faith, one can move even the tallest and heaviest mountain just as much as the most obdurate person, only if God grants one’s wish perceiving that this falls with the plan He had for him since eternity and that this is for one’s own and the common good.

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