God’s deaf ears or mine!

There is the story told about the priest who pretended he was deaf when someone begged from him. “Father, could you spare a euro?”, the poor man shouted in his ear. “Can’t hear you; go to the other ear,”  he said. He went to his right ear and shouted: “Could you spare five euros Father?” “Go back to the other ear,” said the priest! 

Sometimes I think God has to have selective hearing. What if two of us were shouting into his two ears at the one time, asking for entirely different things.

The message today is simple. Just keep asking. Even when your raised arms are weary remember that someone else might be propping up your arms  in prayer.

In the silence of communion thanksgiving at this Mass, listen to that whisper from God into either ear, asking you just to believe that your prayer, will one day, in His time, be answered.

Our mantra for today is: Speak, O Lord, your servant here is listening.

Fr. Michael McCullagh, C.M

21st October, 2007