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                                                    SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR C

                                                                                    24 JULY 2022

                                                                      BREAKING OPEN THE WORD

                                                          FOUNDATION OF PRAYER (Luke 11: 1-13)

    Like the disciples we find ourselves asking, ‘Lord, teach us to pray’. All people of faith are called to pray but how are we to pray? What attitudes are appropriate? Should we be fearful of the living God or trusting and open? The readings for today provide us with some useful orientations. Abraham’s pleading for Sodom and Gomorrah is not simply a theoretical concern. Abraham is pleading for the survival of Lot and his family, though he does not mention them specifically. He is prepared to push God’s mercy to the limit to save his relatives. His trust in God and his courageous persistence is the very stuff of the life of faith. Those who seek will find, to those who knock the door will be opened. Abraham knew that the living God was a God of justice and mercy; Jesus goes further to show that the living God is also to be seen as a loving parent, a tireless provider, to be addressed as our Father.

    Paul knew that we can have this sort of confidence in God because of what had come about through Jesus’ death. Our baptism enables us to share in his saving death and resurrection. On the cross, Jesus has already graciously paid the debt our sin would normally require us to pay. Because of this gift, we can approach God with confidence and trust because the burden of our past has already been taken up by Jesus.

    CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP

                              The Beautiful Garden of Prayer:

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                                   KINH LẠY CHA - Gioakim:

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