Beloved: We have this confidence in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours. (1 Jn 5:14-21)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011026.cfm
Faith is not some celestial grab bag—where we get anything we want. As the writer of the letter reminds us, God hears us when we “ask anything according to his will.” We are called to pray as Jesus prays, “Not my will but yours be done.” https://youtu.be/ylw8wO9ih4w?si=DlSLyy0-u84dW3SX
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Saturday after Epiphany, January 10
