Worship is equated with prayer, (a genuine conversation with God) in the

catholic teaching, the Lords Prayer(also known as: Our Father) from which ACTSAdoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, Supplication was derived and formed as a
pattern for prayers. But our prayers according to this pattern would vary in different
degrees. Ask yourself, When I pray, what do I say? Isnt it that you pray saying: I
Praise You, Forgive me, Thank You, but over and over again we say: give me, give
me, give me!
We shall not ignore the fact that we are human and finite, we needed to
sustain ourselves, that is why we ask. But there is a danger given to us by this. First
is the tendency to become worldly and selfish. This happens when we are not
satisfied with the things we receive. There needs to be extra, excess in everything.
Thus, Second, our prayer, or rather, our attitude towards prayer leads to a worship
of an idol, we creating according to ourselves the image of God and this God is
someone abundant, powerful, famous, infinite. We are unable to recognize who God
really is. We render a picture of Him according to what we want.
Humanity is called not to recognize God only in the usual way we know of
Him. There are two sides of God, as presented in the Sacred Scriptures, one
presented in the Old Testament(OT) is one who is beyond or grasp: powerful,
glorious, triumphant, to be feared, and in the New Testament(NT) He is presented in
the most strange and unusual manner: the totally other side of God in the person of
Jesus Christ. Who is Jesus? He is a man, but he showed us beginning from the day
he was conceived that the God we know can be totally different from what the
people expected. Is God to come as a king, a powerful one? No, rather, God came to
us, to a not well-off family of Joseph and Mary, as a lowly child. God, in the person of
Jesus, experienced manhood. He was conceived, born, he grew up, worked as a
carpenter, tempted by the devil at the desert, happy, he experienced sorrow, he
suffered, he died, he resurrected, ascended, but he promised that he will be with us
until the end of time.
Keep quiet! Listen to who is calling, the Voice of God: You always ask from
me, can I, this time be the One to ask from you? Who is this Voice of God? The
indigent, lowly, the least, lost and the last, this present days marginalized and
persecuted. In them, we must recognize that God is because God dwells in all of us.
However, God is unbiased and he wants us not only to focus on the poor. He wants
us to put ourselves under the feet of those who are not like us, those whom we do
not often recognize: the poor, marginalized, prostitutes, criminals, sinners, even the
rich or the wealthy. Is it not the reason why some are suffering is because people
have a purely self-oriented, egoistic, exclusivist attitude? But, is it not also the poor
themselves caused their suffering? Did they made wrong decisions, are they too
lazy to strive to live?
What does this imply? God, having two Faces constituting of power and
lowliness. This surely is a reminder to us, that notwithstanding of our lowliness, our
sinfulness, impurities and selfishness, God has given us the power to conquer, to
triumph over our selfishness, thus we triumph against suffering. It is a call to strive

to live not only for ourselves, but for the sake of others. Thus, we eliminate others,
but they are retained as ourselves, because, we simply are one body. We are
instructed to love as we love ourselves. Moreover, we are to realize that poverty is
not in a sense lack of something, but rather it is a way of living directed toward
others for Christs sake.