PRAYER REFLECTIONS BASED ON Matthew 25:40 and Matthew 6:6
Mother Teresa often told her sisters to remember the "gospel on five fingers." As she held up each finger of her hand, she would say: "You, Did, It, For, Me." These words come from Matthew 25:40, where Jesus tells us we will be judged by how we help the thirsty or hungry or sick, etc.
(Quote is from an article by Sr. Theresa Rickard, OP in the May 2012 issue of LIVING WITH CHRIST monthly missalette, p. 2)
Matthew 6:6 tells us to enter into our "closet" for prayer. When a Jewish man puts on his prayer shawl, he closes himself in and shuts out the world. This effectively becomes his "prayer closet" and this was an image in the mind of Matthew when he wrote the admonition of Jesus.
(This quote accompanied several prayer shawls that were given as gifts to the members of our prayer fraternity by a group from Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Branson, MO.)
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