Have you ever considered all the people that have prayed for you?
Think of those people who ask others to pray for you and those others bringing those prayers to more people.
Think of the saints who have been asked to pray for you and countless others by others.
Think of Mary, who must have countless prayers given to her.
This scene from the movie Superman Returns, kind of sums it up for me. The embedding is restricted (because God forbid someone should share the video) but click this link to watch.
We have had a lot of Supermen and women in our lives who have brought our needs before God. We who are sinners and undeserving of such care and mindfulness of us are simply brought to humbleness by the prayers of the faithful.
I think of the churches and the cathedrals. The buddhist monks and the Jewish people at the Wailing Wall. The Muslims on their carpets. All children of the same God of Abraham–united in prayers for peace and harmony.
Can we give thanks for these prayers by converting our sinful lives into lives of prayer and gratitude to God? God hears our prayers even though we are sinners. Now and at the hour of our death.
We are grateful for the sure and certain hope of God’s mercy and the need for prayer. Today, unite your prayers with those of all the saints and angels who pray unceasingly.
For you and me and for the world.
All the saints and angels…pray for us.