27/07/2025
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17th in Ordinary Time
of the Elderly /
says 📖
He said to them, 'When you pray, this is what to say: Father, may your name be held holy, your kingdom come; give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us. And do not put us to the test.'
He also said to them, 'Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him in the middle of the night to say, "My friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine on his travels has just arrived at my house and I have nothing to offer him;"
and the man answers from inside the house, "Do not bother me. The door is bolted now, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up to give it to you."
I tell you, if the man does not get up and give it to him for friendship's sake, persistence will make him get up and give his friend all he wants.
So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will have the door opened.
What father among you, if his son asked for a fish, would hand him a snake?
Or if he asked for an egg, hand him a scorpion?
If you then, evil as you are, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!'
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Can you recall a time in your life when God answered your prayer in a most magnificent way?
The Our Father is a reminder of God’s devotion to us. We ask for bread—both that which nourishes our bodies and the sacred host by which we receive Holy Communion—and God provides. He is, in fact, the ultimate provider, giving us all we need at exactly the right moment.
It seems like a dream come true—ask, and the Father will give to you.
But the priest stressed out that when God doesn’t right away give what you ask or never gave what you asked for, it may be because you have the wrong intentions of asking/praying for it.
Also, he mentioned about the correct format of praying. It has the acronym ACTS = Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving and Suplication.
