That's when God hears our prayer

Our Lady sent us almost every month to pray. This means that prayer has a very great value in the plan of salvation. But what is the prayer recommended by the Virgin? How should we pray for our prayer to be effective and pleasing to God? Fr Gabriele Amorth, commenting on the messages of the Queen of Peace in a Roman assembly, helps us find the answer to our questions.

"Many understand prayer like this:" give me, give me, give me ... "and then, if they don't receive what they ask, they say:" God has not answered me! ". The Bible tells us that it is the Holy Spirit who prays for us with unspeakable moans, to ask for the graces we need. Prayer is not the means to bend God's will to ours. It is legitimate that we pray for those things that seem useful to us, which we see as necessary for us, but we must always remember that our prayer must be subordinate to the will of God. The prayer model always remains the prayer of Jesus in the garden: "Father, if possible, pass this cup to me, but let it be as you wish, not as I wish." Many times prayer does not give us what we ask for: it gives us much more, because often what we ask is not the best for us. Then prayer becomes the great means that bends our will to the will of God and makes us conform to it. Many times it almost seems that we say: "Lord, I ask you for this grace, I hope it conforms to your will, but give me this grace". This is more or less implicitly the reasoning, as if we knew what is best for us. Returning to the example of Jesus' prayer in the garden, it seems to us that this prayer has not been answered, because the Father did not pass that cup: Jesus drank to the end; yet in the letter to the Hebrews we read: "This prayer has been answered". It means that God fulfills his way many times; in fact the first part of the prayer was not answered: "If it is possible pass this cup to me", the second part has fulfilled: "... but do as you want, not as I want", and since the Father knew it was better to Jesus, for his humanity, and for us that he suffered, gave him the strength to suffer.

Jesus will say this clearly to the disciples of Emmaus: "Foolish, was it not necessary for Christ to suffer and thus enter his glory?", As if to say: "The humanity of Christ would not have had that glorification if it had not accepted, endured the passion ”, and it was good for us because from the Resurrection of Jesus came our resurrection, the resurrection of the flesh.
Our Lady also urges us to pray in groups, in the family ... In this way, prayer will become a source of union, of communion. Again we must pray for the strength to align our will with the will of God; because when we are in communion with God we also enter into communion with others; but if there is no communion with God, there is not even among us ”.

Father Gabriele Amorth.