Amongst all the lessons that JESUS living in Mary teaches us, that on
prayer must ever hold a foremost place. What is Prayer? "The lifting up
of the heart and mind to God," the Catechism tells us. To love God,
then, and to think about Him is to pray. JESUS lived in Mary uniquely to
do the Will of His Father. He and the Father were _one_--one heart, one
mind. He took pleasure in all that concerned His Father: "Hallowed be
Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven." He taught us to pray in the same way, taking our thoughts away
from ourselves to our Father, and when we do ask for something for
ourselves, letting it be just a short prayer for mercy or for help,
acknowledging our weakness and misery and nothingness, while we keep our
eyes fixed on our Father--He God, I His creature; He everything, I
nothing. "God be merciful to me a sinner," this prayer contains all we
need.
O my little JESUS, Who didst think of me in Thy communion with Thy
Father, for Thou didst come to do His Will, and His Will was that I
should be saved, teach me to think of Thee and to love Thee so much that
my life, too, may be one perpetual prayer, that is, that communion with
God may be the attitude of my soul.