Faith is personal, but not private. It is the intimate relationship that we have with God but not something exclusive. That relationship includes the other as well. If it does not then it is private!!
The gospel of the day, from St Matthew (6: 1-6, 16-18) wherein Jesus tells his disciples about praying and fasting in secret, rather than making a big show of it, tells us precisely of this triadic relationship we Christians are called to live.
This passage can be interpreted as a private relationship with the Father...
But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.
But God does not want us to be so exclusively bound to him that we do not care or bother about those around us. We pray in secret, but not for ourselves!! My relationship with the Father flows out through me into the world. It does not end begin and end with God and myself!!
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