August 28, 2013 – Catechism 2598 – 2606

Christ is our greatest example of how to pray.  Christ would pray either in front of, but many times off on his own, before the biggest events in His ministry.  That is for us to see, it wasn’t for Him.  Do you think He NEEDED to pray?  He is God.

I just talked about this on Sunday.  Paul prays because he sees Michelle and I praying, not because we tell him to.  In fact, when we tell him to, he doesn’t seem to want to.  It seems much better to wait until he ask for it and then encourage him.  It has been his idea to pray the rosary every day.  He is really good at praying when we hear a siren.  But these are not because we tell him too, it is because he sees prayer is important to us.  Christ teaches us in the same way.

I am trying to imagine if Jesus was mute, what would that have taught us.  If you take all of His actions, they would still have been something great.  He could have accomplished everything He did because He is God.  He never had to utter a word to do the work that He did.  If you believe that, then every word He spoke was for our teaching and our example only.  He came down to save us, but He didn’t need to speak to do that.  He spoke to teach us, not to save us.