When Your Prayers Go Unanswered Deacon John Ruscheinsky Sometimes it seems that our prayers are unanswered. We pray daily but didn’t get the answer we were looking for. It seems the pleas have been swallowed up by silence. Feeling frustrated and alone. We ask ourselves, doesn’t God care? Yes! God is always ready to answer, but there are conditions that we need to meet so that He can answer us. There are also times when God knows it is best not to answer our prayers as we have prayed them. We trust that the “hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of the law” (Deut29:28)
On this Day of Prayer, we will reflect on Rev. Keith McClellan’s, Care Notes; about when prayers go unanswered; how we can learn to open ourselves to receive and accept God’s answer---Where He always, and sometimes mysteriously represents the fullness of His divine love for us. Mass, 2 conferences, lunch, Holy Hour of Adoration and the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Deacon John Ruscheinsky was ordained to the diaconate at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes on June 24th 1999, the feast of St. John the Baptist. He served as the former director of Immaculate Heart Retreat Center for over two decades. He also has taken Pastoral Counseling Studies with the Pontifical College Josephinum out of Columbus Ohio and offers spiritual direction. Deacon John in his current ministry is appointed by Bishop Daly to serve as chaplain for Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington. He is married to Elaine, has three daughters and four grandchildren.