"Multiple times a day, I repeat these
words: 'O Lord, make haste to help me.' They are the well-known response
to the versicle, 'God, come to my assistance,' which begins all but one
of the 'hours' that make up the Liturgy of the Hours. I have made this
response literally thousands of times, and then, as sometimes happens,
it occurred to me one day to wonder, 'why?' It would be easy to think
that when we are at prayer, we are safe, and if we ask for help we would
be asking for help for later, for when the trials and temptations which
beset us 'out there,' in the world to which we will return after we
finish praying. Yet for over a thousand years, at least as early as St.
Benedict, and perhaps earlier, the Church has placed these words on our
lips at the beginning of her 'official' prayers throughout the day. Why?"
In a recent commentary, Brother Christopher Daniel, O.P.,
reflected on why the Church invites us to start our prayers by asking God to help us pray.
To access Br. Christopher's complete post, please visit:
Dominicana: Ends that Justify the Means (13 DEC 19)
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