Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Lk 11:5-13
October 6, 2022 | Thursday

Today’s Gospel

Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to his house in the middle of the night and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine who is traveling has just arrived, and I have nothing to offer him.’ Maybe your friend will answer from inside, ‘Don’t bother me now; the door is locked, and my children and I are in bed, so I can’t get up and give you anything.’ But I tell you, even though he will not get up and attend to you because you are a friend, yet he will get up because you are a bother to him, and he will give you all you need. And so I say to you, ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For the one who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened. If your child asks for a fish, will you give him a snake instead? And if your child asks for an egg, will you give him a scorpion? If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.”

Today’s Reflection:

What is the right way of praying? Jesus teaches us to be persistent in our prayer and assures us that a person “who asks, receives; the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (v.10). Unfortunately, we oftentimes associate persistence with shamelessness. But in prayer life, our persistence in asking, seeking, and knocking deepens our personal relationship with God. First, it purifies our motives in asking the Lord for something. Does what we ask from Him benefit or harm our spiritual life? Second, persistence presupposes patience and endurance. Until the Lord has given us what we pray for, we should all the more pray and come closer to Him. God will never give up on us. Simply put, we are invited to pray incessantly not for God’s sake, but for our own transformation. /Vulnerasti, 2022