Prayer

This coronavirus crisis has, for me, some perplexing parallels with a well-known incident narrated in the Gospel of Matthew (14:22-33). The disciples are confined in a little boat in the middle of a terrible storm, almost as we are confined at home today by the emergency laws of our countries.

One day, Jesus’s disciples—who followed Him about, observing His every word and action—asked Him to teach them how to pray.