Considering Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, we try to discover specific ways in which our friendship with Jesus can become more sincere and personal.

Our prayer today centres on the parable of the talents. We try to contemplate the great confidence that God has in us, and how this is expressed in the baptismal vocation that he entrusts us with, encouraging us to make it grow and multiply.

We consider the rich young man's dissatisfaction with doing good deeds so as to pray about how God wants us to "enjoy" the Christian life he calls us to. Also, the example of the Prodigal Son's older brother shows how an inability to enjoy God's mercy separates us from him, and from the true Christian life that we are called to live.

We are very familiar with the story of the rich young man. Of the many things that God can say to us through it, today we want to try and pray about our own vocation and how commitment liberates us for the life that God lovingly invites us to live.

Today we contemplate the arc of Nicodemus appearance in St. John's Gospel. We try to see how he passes from fear to friendship and that public identification with Jesus is key to this. In doing so, we pray to become free from the pressures of other's opinion and assessment in order to be free to do what we want: become Jesus' friend.

Inspired by a reflection of Pope Francis, we contemplate the many ways in which Jesus takes the first step towards us, so that we might be free to go out of ourselves to others. We don't need to wait in the safe, and perhaps suffocating, spaces that we are already familiar with. Jesus calls us to imitate him in taking the first step.

We try to enter into St. Mark's account of Jesus blessing the children, so as to imitate their desire to have real contact with Jesus. Also, we try to pray about how receiving the Kingdom as a child means striving and struggling to live a Christian life to the full in a joyous and free way.

Continuing with the Gospel of St. Mark, we contemplate how the father of a possessed boy struggles to believe while feeling the weakness of that belief. And we try to make his words our own prayer: "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief".

In this meditation, we want to accompany the apostles in seeing more clearly who Jesus is. This mysterious moment is a revelation of how unique and vital Jesus is in our lives, but we need to come to this through prayer.

In this meditation we contemplate St. Mark's presentation of Jesus' multiplication of the loaves and fishes. We want to see how God wants children, not puppets, who serve him by allowing him to multiply the gifts he has given us.