2024 Year of Prayer: To reinforce Pope Francis’ call for prayer to be intensified in 2024 in prepare for the 2025 Jubilee year, the archdiocesan Centre for Liturgy has posted 38 catechesis on prayer by Pope Francis. Summaries of these teachings will be published weekly in the bulletin. Details of the catechesis can be found in this link:
https://liturgy.perthcatholic.org.au/year-of-prayer-2024/
2024 YEAR OF PRAYER: POPE FRANCIS GENERAL AUDIENCE
Wednesday, 18 November 2020 Catechesis on prayer –
15. The Virgin Mary, prayerful woman
We now consider our Blessed Lady as a woman of prayer and a model for our own life of prayer. From her youth Mary always prayed with humility, open to wherever the Lord might lead her. We find her at prayer when the angel Gabriel announces that she is to be the Mother of the Son of God. Her simple words, “Let it be done to me”, are a model for all prayer, which consists in trusting openness to God’s will. Mary remained close to her Son in prayer at the critical moments of his life, even to the foot of the cross. In the joy of the resurrection, she prayerfully accompanied the newborn Church. Through her 3 openness to the power of the Holy Spirit the Mother of God thus became the Mother of the Church. Saint Luke tells us that Mary “treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart” (2:19). In union with her Immaculate Heart, may our hearts too be open to God’s will through our own meditation on the mysteries of the life and saving work of Jesus Christ.