Need to Pray Always 

Let us always keep our mind on God and turn our heart to him as long as the circumstances and the occupations permit us. (OOCC, XIII, p. 216)

Apostolic spirituality of St. Vincent Pallotti urges a person to live a life in which prayer and activity are well integrated. A life that over-emphasizes activity can disorient a person from his ultimate goal. Hence, St. Vincent advised his followers to concentrate on their prayer so that they could constantly be in touch with God. In order to be in touch with God constantly, a person must keep his mind on God and his heart turned to God on a regular basis. Amidst the various activities of daily life as circumstances and active involvement permit a person, he must be in touch with God, who is the foundation of his life. In order to keep a person’s mind on God, it is important that he has the right intention of doing whatever he does. A right intention always keeps a person in touch which his ultimate goal, that is God, the author and source of his existence and functioning. When a person has this right intention, even though he is not able to keep uninterrupted contact with God, he is able to turn back to encounter God whenever time permits without any difficulty. In having the right intention, the person seeks God in and through all his plans and activity. In this way, a person can live in the abiding presence of God despite his diverse activities.

 Amidst my diverse activities of daily life, do I keep in touch with God? Do I have a right intention which keeps me founded on God, the ultimate source of my existence? Do I seek God and his glory in and through my plans and activity?

Then he told them … about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. (Lk. 18: 1)