I’m curious what his answer was? I regularly pray for the healing of the sick, and there’s this ongoing weird coincidence (/s) where the people I anoint tend to get better, many times between one Sunday and the next
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So what’s that prove then.
aug 31, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I apologize, I realize I should have stopped at the request for the Fr’s teaching rather than supply a personal anecdote. I wasn’t trying to “prove” anything, just supplying an example where I regularly pray for direct intervention and it certainly seems that God hears & grants my petitions.
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Simply not to see prayer as a means to get God to do what you want, as if changing His mind depended on you (a common thought in my upbringing). Basically he repeated Aquinas's conclusion (paraphrased here) that one does not pray to change divine decree but in order to obtain what requires prayer.
aug 31, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
A quite important distinction! And I also struggle with that intercession-focused prayer and treating God as the unjust judge (completely misunderstanding the intent of the parable)
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view