“Why God?”

Dear Parishioners,

I have been reading a book “ Prayers of Desperation, A Questioner’s Prayer for Answers in Our Darkest Moments.” The book is written by Bishop Robert J. Baker, retired Bishop of Birmingham, Alabama.

Each chapter is a question for God, questions of the heart at the most difficult times of life. The questions are: Why? How? When? What? Where? Who God?

At the end of each chapter is a beautiful prayer. At the end of chapter one, “Why God?” is the following   prayer:

Prayer

Lord, hear my cry; listen to my question—-”why?”
For it rises to You from the depth of my heart,
as a prayer from one
who truly believes in You,
but experiences You right now as far away from me.
O Lord,
be not far from me.
Hasten to help me.
I need You to answer my plea.
Turn not Your face from me.
I seek to understand Your ways and to follow
Your holy will for me.
Help me to find strength for my journey
and light for my path as I join
my suffering to that of Your Son’s suffering
and death on the Cross.
May the Passion of Jesus give meaning
and hope to me as I experience
my own personal passion.
Into Your hands, O Lord, in faith and in trust,
I commend my spirit.

Amen.

 

God bless us all!
Fr. Citino