June 19, 2026
Being a Person of Prayer
For a man of prayer is, in the final analysis, the man who is able to recognize in others the face of the Messiah and make visible what was hidden, make touchable what was unreachable. The man of prayer is a leader precisely because through his articulation of God’s work within himself he can lead others out of confusion to clarification; through his compassion he can guide them out of the closed circuits of their ingroups to the wide world of humanity; and through his critical contemplation he can convert their compulsive destructiveness into creative work for the new world to come.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- 1 Peter 2:9
Reflection Question: How might your prayers enable you to see the face of the Messiah in others?
