July 27 - Sunday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Gn.18:20-32; Ps.138:1-3,6-8; Col.2:12-14; Lk.11:1-13) "Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." Prayer. Our wonderful gift from God. Our sharing in His will. The Lord ordains that Abraham should speak with Him, and so He stops and waits to hear the prayer of His favored one. And so in this mystical scene from our first reading, we are given a holy model for our own petitions of the Lord. Indeed, first we see that the Lord waits upon us to approach Him – His ears are ever open to our pleas. (As we read elsewhere, He knows what we need before…
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