September 9, 2025; Tuesday, week 23
HOMILY
“If you want to pray, Jesus said to his disciples, enter your cell, shut the door and pray your father in secret”.
Jesus himself often did something very similar. He often went to the mountain, specially during the night, to pray his Father in secret. And if you examine all the instances in the Gospel when he does that, you will see that it is almost always before making an important decision. We have an example in today's Gospel. Before choosing his twelve apostles, Jesus spends a whole night of prayer on the mountain.