Read 3rd Sunday of Easter – Deacon Peter
“Who is this Jesus?” Third Sunday of Lent – Fr. Howard
Is it possible to help prepare a loved one’s “soil” so that they can be fertile ground for Christ? You bet!
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Who really feels all their prayers have been answered? Nobody! How can we reconcile that with Jesus assurance in this Gospel “For everyone who asks, receives, and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Lk 11:10). If Jesus says so it must be true. Why then…
How many times have we all said or thought: “I can’t get involved; what will everybody think?” “How is that going to be seen in the community?” And we would be right. The more we take Jesus seriously, the better chance we have not to be popular.
Whenever an urgent need comes up, inevitably someone would say, “We don’t have the money or the volunteers to do that.” The answer is always the same, “Let’s just start doing it, the Lord will provide.” One does not just stay there and expect the Lord to drop it from heaven. One needs to get to work: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you shall find, knock, and it shall be open to you” (Lk 11:9).