Intimate and Trusting Conversation with Christ (Rebroadcast)

Blessed Meditations

January 8, 2025. Gospel Passages: Matthew 14:22-33; Mark 10:41-45; Matthew 27:46; Matthew 28:20. Also John 15:15; Revelation 3:20. Quoting St. Josemaría Escrivá's “The Way” Point 91 in escriva.org/en/camino/91 and St. Alphonsus Liguori's "How to Pray At All Times" in www.ecatholic2000.com/cts/untitled-211.shtml. Meditation with Fr. John Grieco, guest priest from "Come Away By Yourselves" on Spotify. Image: "St. Peter Attempts to Walk on the Water" (Saint Pierre tentant de marcher sur les eaux) by François Boucher in the Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles, France (Wikimedia Commons). Priest's Comment: "I have called you my friends." These words of Jesus teach us how we should speak to him in our prayer. Close friends converse with each other confidently and intimately. We should habitually share all of our thoughts, feelings, and concerns with our friend Jesus. He is interested in any and every thing that affects us. In times of trouble, when it seems like he has left us, this continuous dialogue becomes even more important. They are moments to be trustingly sincere and simple. Eventually he will help us through even the greatest trials and tribulations.