Second Week - 1 & 2

For most of us, prayer does not fall into categories. Instead, our prayer falls over the matter like a mountains stream falling through its rocky bed - one way or another.

Keep in mind how useful you will find reading the lives of great?souled people, particularly of the saints.

What I want now gets very simple: to know, to love, to follow Jesus, my Lord.

You are asking for an "intimate knowledge" of Jesus. This intimacy goes two ways - into Jesus and into yourself. You want reverently to feel what Jesus felt, to see with His eyes, to think what He thought, even to do what He did. This is very intimate to the Lord. But such knowledge of any other person is impossible to the one who does not go into himself as well. So you will discover that "intimate knowledge" of Jesus reveals you to yourself at the same time. Jesus really is the Way.

PRAYER MATERIAL FOR THIS WEEK:
1. The Kingdom

2. Ephesians 1:3-14 God's Plan

3. Matthew 4:18-25 Jesus’ Call

4. Repetition of THE KINGDOM

5. Contemplating The Incarnation

6. John1: 1-18 Jesus Christ stands at the beginning of all creation. He comes into our flesh, as it is.  Going through it all, He transforms me, and all humankind.

7. Luke 1:26-56 The Annunciation and the Visitation.  Gabriel says, "Hail, full of grace." He tells about God's confirming action: Elizabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Mary replies,
"Behold the handmaid of the Lord."