From today’s gospel: “And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

From De La Salle: “You must do the same thing for the children entrusted to your care. It is your duty to go up to God every day in prayer to learn from him all that you must teach the children and then to come down to them by accommodating them at their level in order to instruct them about what God has communicated for them to you in your prayer, as well as in Holy Scripture . . . ." (Med. 198.1)

One of our former colleagues once said, “What we do here is hard." Being educators at San Miguel brings many joys and blessings, as well as advances in our own education and salvation. But it is not always easy. In addition, the lives and circumstances of our students can be fraught with difficulty. Yet we have recourse to God’s holy presence in all things, and especially in prayer. So as we begin to be present again to our students during this week, may we never cease bringing our students, their needs, and our own concerns about educating them to God in our prayer. For “[y]ou must constantly represent the needs of your disciples to Jesus Christ, [and] Jesus Christ, seeing that you regard him as the one who can do everything in your work, whereas you are an instrument that must be moved only by him, will not fail to grant you what you ask of him." (De La Salle, Med. 196.1)

Live, Jesus, in our hearts!