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The Catholic Calendar for Thursday, October 9, 2003
Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
St. Denis, bishop, martyr and companions, martyrs
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Malachi 3:13-20
Psalm 1:1-4,6
Luke 11:5-13
A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:
And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you. (Luke 11:9-10)
What a loving and generous God we have! He is our Father and like such a loving father, we can ask Him anything and we know with total confidence when we open our hearts, that He is there for us and will answer our prayers.
Sometimes we wonder why, when praying for something, we don't receive what we're asking for. Sometimes we wonder if God is there and is not listening to us because, after all, we are just one little person, and there are so many other people with so many other problems.
Some of God's greatest gifts are prayers that seem to have not been answered. They were answered, in God's way, not ours. Just as our fathers on earth would not give their children anything that would harm them, so God doesn't give us anything that might harm us. We'll only see this truth after time has passed and we happily realize our prayer was answered differently than what we had wished.
But we know with persistence and perseverance, that God will answer all prayers; not always in the way we think they'll be answered, but in God's way and in God's time. We have to be patient and trust in God's will for us.
- Ana Shawl
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