Monday, April 26, 2021

The Certainty of Praying as Jesus Prayed

In Jesus' conversations with Nicodemus the Holy Gospels were not mentioned because they had not yet been written

They were written after the Resurrection of Jesus, about 40 years. The first written gospel is that of St. Mark around the year 70

So Jesus prayed with nothing of the New Testament, himself being the incarnation of the Gospels

And from the books of the Old Testament there are many of them with which Jesus could have prayed, but which ones in Papyrus there would be in the Synagogue of Jesus or what was recited?, or which fragment would he choose?, we do not know. We can assume that of the first five books of the Bible there would be copies of: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. This set of 5 books is called Pentateúco

With what Jesus sure prayed was with the 150 Psalms:

https://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=23&bible_chapter=92

(Link to all the Psalms)


From "Swan Lake", a Swan

among 150

And surely this Psalm that is for Saturdays could be one of his Favorites that begins like this:

Psalm and Canticle number 92-91 For the day of Saturday:

2 It is good to thank the Lord | and touch for your name, O Most High; 3Proclame thy mercy in the morning | and at night your fidelity, 4with ten-string harps and lauses, | about arpeggios of cítaras. 5 Your actions, Lord, are my joy, | and my jubilation, the works of your hands. 6O magnificent are thy works, Lord, | how deep your designs!

The Psalms are a set of 150 Songs. So surely you will find one that in a certain circumstance can help you transmit to God what you desire: Praise, prayer, non-conformity, joy, singing, etc...

Especially because they help to express, what you are feeling 

to move it to God with 😀😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

2589 Certain constant characteristics appear throughout the Psalms: simplicity and spontaneity of prayer; the desire for God himself through and with all that is good in his creation; the distraught situation of the believer who, in his preferential love for the Lord, is exposed to a host of enemies and temptations, but who waits upon what the faithful God will do, in the certitude of his love and in submission to his will. The prayer of the psalms is always sustained by praise; that is why the title of this collection as handed down to us is so fitting: "The Praises." Collected for the assembly's worship, the Psalter both sounds the call to prayer and sings the response to that call: Hallelu-Yah! ("Alleluia"), "Praise the Lord!"

What is more pleasing than a psalm? David expresses it well: "Praise the Lord, for a psalm is good: let there be praise of our God with gladness and grace!" Yes, a psalm is a blessing on the lips of the people, praise of God, the assembly's homage, a general acclamation, a word that speaks for all, the voice of the Church, a confession of faith in song.40


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