Thursday, 13th February

Mark 7:24–30

From
there Jesus set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want
anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose
little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came
and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician
origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let
the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and
throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the
table eat the children's crumbs.” Then he said to her, “For saying that, you
may go--the demon has left your daughter.” So she went home, found the child
lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

 

Reflection 

Can I ask Jesus in my prayer why he did not want
anyone to know where he is? 

Compared with this Syrophoenician woman, how persistence am I in my prayer?