{"id":17767,"date":"2019-07-28T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=17767"},"modified":"2019-08-01T05:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:33:14","slug":"learning-to-pray-from-jesus-seventeenth-sunday-c-july-28-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/learning-to-pray-from-jesus-seventeenth-sunday-c-july-28-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Pray from Jesus, Seventeenth Sunday (C), July 28, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nSaint Sylvester Parish, Medford, NY
\nSeventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
\nJuly 28, 2019
\nGen 18:20-32, Ps 138, Col 2:12-14, Lk 11:1-13<\/p>\n

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To\u00a0listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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To\u00a0listen to a second, slightly longer version of the same homily from Holy Family Parish in Manhattan, please click below: <\/i><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7.28.19-11-am-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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The following text guided today’s homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Jesus’ surpassingly attractive prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last Sunday the Church had us focus on Jesus\u2019 praising Mary of Bethany for choosing \u201cthe better part,\u201d \u201cthe one thing necessary in life,\u201d in sitting at his feet allowing herself to be nourished by him instead of getting anxious and worried, as Martha did, about many of the less important details of hospitality. Today the Church seeks to reinforce that lesson with regard to how each of us prioritizes similar time being fed by God in prayer.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a startling aspect to the request Jesus\u2019 disciple in the Gospel, \u201cLord, teach us to pray.\u201d On its face, it seems like a straightforward-enough petition, but when one understands well the context in which it would have been asked, it would be similar to Aaron Judge\u2019s asking someone to teach him how to catch a pop fly. The Jewish disciples of Jesus already should have been experts on prayer. The whole of what we call today the Old Testament was one long instruction on how to pray. We see Abraham praying in the first reading. Several times we see Moses climb Mount Sinai or enter the Tent with the Ark of the Covenant to converse with God. The 150 psalms were prayers the Jews sung over and over, with inspired words put on their lips to praise and thank God, to beg forgiveness, to ask for specific things for themselves or for others. We see Samson praying before the Philistines, the Prophet Elijah praying on Mt. Carmel in a showdown versus the priests of Ba\u2019al, Queen Esther praying to save the life of her fellow Jews in Babylon. The books of the prophets all contain explicit examples of prayer. The wisdom literature shares the fruit of much prayer and is the source of deep contemplation on the mysteries of God. The history of the Jews and the whole Hebrew Bible was a school of prayer. Yet Jesus\u2019 disciples, fully educated in that school, knew that there was something different about Jesus\u2019 prayer that they hadn\u2019t picked up from the rabbis in the synagogues or the levitical priests in the Temple. His example of prayer \u2014 going off to the desert, heading up on a mountain, stealing a corner in a garden, often spending all night \u2014 enticed them to ask him to teach them his secret. Implicitly they knew that the type of prayer to which God was calling them was more than merely making some time for God, more than just reflecting on the Torah or putting the sacred words of the Psalms on their lips. So they turned to Jesus to ask him to teach them this special art, and Jesus didn\u2019t let them down. And today we are here to learn from the same Master.<\/p>\n

A Trinitarian prayer able to fill one’s life<\/strong><\/p>\n

One cannot exaggerate the importance of prayer in a life that\u2019s truly and fully Christian. St. John Paul II, in his 2001 Pastoral Plan for the Church in the new millennium, said, \u201cPrayer cannot be taken for granted. We have to learn to pray: as it were learning this art ever anew from the lips of the Divine Master himself, like the first disciples: \u2018Lord, teach us to pray!\u2019\u201d He went on to emphasize what happens if we don\u2019t learn that art. \u201cIt would be wrong to think,\u201d he said, \u201cthat ordinary Christians can be content with a shallow prayer that is unable to fill their whole life. Especially in the face of the many trials to which today’s world subjects faith, they would be not only mediocre Christians but \u2018Christians at risk.\u2019 They would run the insidious risk of seeing their faith progressively undermined, and would perhaps end up succumbing to the allure of \u2018substitutes,\u2019 accepting alternative religious proposals and even indulging in far-fetched superstitions,\u201d something we see when Catholics drift away from the faith because they were often not finding God, not entering into intimate existential dialogue with Him, through the practice of their faith. So St. John Paul said, \u201cIt is therefore essential that education in prayer should become in some way a key-point\u201d of everything the Church does, because \u201cLearning this Trinitarian shape of Christian prayer and living it fully, above all in the liturgy \u2026 but also in personal experience, is the secret of a truly vital Christianity\u201d (NMI 32-34). For our faith to be truly alive, we must learn from Christ how to pray to the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit. Basically our spiritual life will be worth what our prayer is worth.<\/p>\n

As we turn to Jesus today and humbly ask him to teach us how to pray well, we see that he teaches us in four ways.<\/p>\n

Jesus’ example of prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first is by his own contagious example of prayer. In today\u2019s Gospel, we read that \u201cJesus was praying in a certain place.\u201d Jesus was constantly praying and it was this personal example of prayer that precipitated the disciples\u2019 question for him to teach them. Jesus by his own witness showed how important prayer is. If Jesus, who is God, prayed so much, then he is instructing us by example the priority that prayer must have in the life of each of us who is not God. Sometimes people will say, \u201cBut I\u2019m too busy to find the time to pray.\u201d Jesus was far busier than any of us. The crowds were constantly following him, bringing their sick and lame, hunting him down in houses and as soon as he got off of boats. Despite all of the pressing work of preaching and healing, Jesus was always stealing away time to pray. In this, as in all things, he teaches by example and then says, no matter how busy we are, \u201cCome, follow me!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus’ own prayers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second way Jesus educates us in the Trinitarian shape of Christian prayer is through his own prayers recorded in Sacred Scripture, which manifested a quantum leap over the way of prayer faithful Jews would have been taught in Old Testament times. Jesus revealed that prayer was to be filial<\/em>, the prayer of beloved son or a daughter, to a Father who loves his child with great affection. In the Old Testament mentality, God was regarded as so awesome, transcendent and distant that the great intimacy and loving reciprocity that God desires to have with us was not always apparent. Jesus came to reveal the Father\u2019s face and to help us to turn to him as a beloved child. We see this in the prayers of Jesus that are recorded in the Gospel. Every one features an intimate, confident, loving address to his Father. \u201cI thank you Father, Lord of heaven of earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will!\u201d (Mt 11:25-26), he says on one occasion. \u201cFather, I thank you for having heard me. I know that you always hear me\u201d (Jn 11:41), he says on another. There are many other examples: \u201cFather, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you\u201d (Jn 17:1). \u201cFather, forgive them for they know not what they do\u201d (Lk 23:34). \u201cFather, into your hands I commend my spirit\u201d (Lk 23:46). We also see that Jesus\u2019 prayer to the Father was never a mere conversation for the sake of a conversation. It wasn\u2019t just \u201cwasting time with God.\u201d His prayer always had a purpose: to help him to embody ever more the Father\u2019s will and conform himself to it. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, \u201cFather, not my will, but yours, be done\u201d (Lk 22:42). His whole life was a prayer to do the Father\u2019s will perfectly. \u201cI have come down from heaven,\u201d he said elsewhere, summarizing his mission, \u201cnot to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me\u201d (Jn 6:38). By the example of his own prayer, Jesus came to reveal to us the true purpose of our prayer and our life<\/em>. Prayer is to seek the Father\u2019s will, to come to know it (\u201cfor he who seeks, finds\u201d), to embrace it and love it, and to love it so much that we burn to do it. Our prayer is meant to help us know God our Father better, to love him more deeply as a beloved child, and to grow to love him so much that His will becomes our will.<\/p>\n

The proper dispositions of prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The third way Jesus responded to the petition \u201cLord, teach us how to pray\u201d was by instructing the disciples and us the different virtues and characteristics of someone who prays well. Two of those essential attributes he reveals to us in today\u2019s Gospel.<\/p>\n

He first taught us explicitly (as he did by his example above) that to pray well, we have to pray as a beloved Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. \u201cIs there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!\u201d Just like a child trusts that his earthly parents will not give her something poisonous when she asks for something good, so we\u2019re called to trust in our Heavenly Father that he will give us something even better. Jesus says he will give the Holy Spirit \u2014 he will give Himself \u2014<\/em>to those who ask him, with all the Spirit\u2019s gifts. He will help us to pray, for, as St. Paul tells us, \u201cwe do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings\u201d (Rom 8:26), and he intercedes not just by putting words on our lips but by changing who we are as we pray, by helping us to pray as beloved sons and daughters of God. \u201cGod has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, \u2018Abba! Father!\u2019\u201d(Gal 4:6).<\/p>\n

Jesus likewise teaches us to pray with perseverance, as Abraham did in the first reading. Jesus uses the analogy of a next-door neighbor\u2019s banging on the door at night to borrow three loaves of bread to extend hospitality to a late-arriving guest. The point of the analogy was that if a friend would eventually get out of bed and give what was requested not because of goodness but simply to get the neighbor off his back, how much more readily will the Father in Heaven who is good<\/em>give what is requested by those children whom he loves. Jesus tells us to keep knocking on the door, to keep asking, to keep seeking, because the Father will open the door. If he loves us so much, we might ask, why doesn\u2019t he open the door and respond to our prayers immediately? As many of the great saints have taught us, the reason is to purify our desires from asking for something we might not need, to build up gratitude to God who responds lest we become spiritual spoiled brats, and most importantly so that we might learn the virtue of perseverance through our prayer so that we might persevere in faith through life.<\/p>\n

In the other parts of the Gospel, he tells us much more about the proper dispositions of the one who prays well. He teaches us about praying with humility in the Parable of the Pharisee and Publican (Lk 18:10-14). He teaches us about not praying for show, to gain the praise of others, but to pray to our Father in secret (Mt 6:4-5). He instructs us about praying simply and directly trusting in God, not heaping up empty phrases (Mt 6:7-8). He tells us that prayer requires a true conversion of heart, and we have to reconcile with our brothers and sisters before we come to pray, because if our heart is hardened toward others, we can\u2019t receive what God wants to give us (Mt 5:23). He teaches us to pray in his name, promising, \u201cIf you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you\u201d (Jn 16:23-24). And he pray teaches us to pray for the most important thing of all: \u201cStrive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness,\u201d he tells us, and everything else we need \u2014 food, drink, clothing, shelter \u2014\u00a0\u201cwill be given to you as well\u201d (Mt 6:31-33).<\/p>\n

The Our Father<\/strong><\/p>\n

This last disposition leads us directly to the fourth and final way Jesus taught us how to pray: the prayer he gives us in today\u2019s Gospel, what Christian tradition has called the Lord\u2019s prayer. In giving us the words of the Our Father in response to the disciple\u2019s request to teach them how to pray, Jesus was doing far more than merely teaching us a \u201cmagic formula\u201d and ritualistic \u201copen sesame!\u201d for us to follow rigidly. We know this because the words of the Our Father we have in today\u2019s Gospel from St. Luke are different and briefer than the words found in St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel, which is the version of the Our Father we\u2019re accustomed to pray. Rather Jesus was teaching us about the types of things we should desire and the sequence of things we should pray for. He was giving us proper longings and the proper order of longings that should constitute our prayer. He helped us to focus on God, on hallowing his name rather than making a name for ourselves, on his kingdom\u2019s coming rather than our building one for ourselves, on his will\u2019s being done rather than our pretending we\u2019re God and doing our own thing. This shows us that prayer is not fundamentally about changing God\u2019s plans, but changing our own to align themselves to what God has ordered for our and others\u2019 eternal good and happiness. And that\u2019s why I\u2019ve always loved the introduction to the Our Father we have at Mass \u2014 \u201cwe dare to say\u201d \u2014\u00a0in which we focus on the courage we need to pray these words. It takes a certain heroism, a great trust, to pray for God\u2019s will to be done over our own, but Jesus teaches us to pray with that holy daring. After we have that order set, then he teaches us to ask for things for ourselves and others that we really need. Notice he doesn\u2019t instruct us to ask for a Red Corvette, or a svelte figure, or a mansion on the beach. He essentializes our needs. First he tells us to ask each day for our daily bread, what we need to survive, knowing that God will not forget about our needs tomorrow. He tells us to ask for the grace of being forgiven and becoming like God in forgiving others. He has us pray that we not fall when tempted \u2014 because we will face temptations just like Jesus did, but we know that we will not face temptations alone, that he will be there to strengthen us \u2014\u00a0and that the Father will deliver us from the evil one with his Fatherly protection in this world and forever. Those seven things \u2014 first God\u2019s holy name, kingdom and will, and then what we need to survive, forgiveness, strength in temptation and deliverance from sin, evil and the devil \u2014\u00a0are things Jesus teaches about which we should be regularly be conversing with God in the lifeblood of Christian life we call prayer.<\/p>\n

Praying the Mass<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLord, teach us to pray.\u201d Today we come with that request and Jesus once teaches us. He wants us not to be mediocre Christians but saints. He wants us not to have a shallow prayer and spiritual life but a deep one, capable of filling our entire life. He wants us not only to be become good students in the school of prayer we call the Church, but his teaching assistants, as we pass on to others the open secret of a truly vital Christianity. And now we turn to the culmination of Christian prayer, which St. John Paul II said we need to learn to pray \u201cabove all,\u201d namely, the Mass. We know that Jesus\u2019 greatest prayer was the one he said from the Upper Room and the Cross as he was preparing to save us, the prayer into which we enter live in time whenever we celebrate the liturgy. It\u2019s here at Mass that we enter into his own filial petition to the Father. It\u2019s here that we pray with perseverance, in his name, having reconciled with him and others. It\u2019s here that we seek the glorification of his name, the coming of his kingdom, the doing of his will, as we do this in his memory. It\u2019s here that he gives us something far greater than our daily material bread: the true Living Bread come down from heaven that gives life to the world (Jn 6:51). It\u2019s here that he strengthens us for the test, fortifies us to forgive, and bolsters us against the wiles of the evil one. And so let us turn as beloved sons and daughters with Jesus to God the Father and ask him, with all the dispositions about praying well that Jesus revealed, to send the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray this Mass together with Jesus so that our whole life may turn into a continual extension of this prayer, and we may be his missionaries helping the whole world to learn the art of prayer and enter deeply into the most important thing a human being can ever do.<\/p>\n

The readings for today’s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reading 1 GN 18:20-32<\/a><\/h4>\n
In those days, the LORD said:<\/div>\n
“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great,
\nand their sin so grave,
\nthat I must go down and see whether or not their actions
\nfully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me.
\nI mean to find out.”While Abraham’s visitors walked on farther toward Sodom,
\nthe LORD remained standing before Abraham.
\nThen Abraham drew nearer and said:
\n“Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?
\nSuppose there were fifty innocent people in the city;
\nwould you wipe out the place, rather than spare it
\nfor the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?
\nFar be it from you to do such a thing,
\nto make the innocent die with the guilty
\nso that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike!
\nShould not the judge of all the world act with justice?”
\nThe LORD replied,
\n“If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom,
\nI will spare the whole place for their sake.”
\nAbraham spoke up again:
\n“See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord,
\nthough I am but dust and ashes!
\nWhat if there are five less than fifty innocent people?
\nWill you destroy the whole city because of those five?”
\nHe answered, “I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.”
\nBut Abraham persisted, saying “What if only forty are found there?”
\nHe replied, “I will forbear doing it for the sake of the forty.”
\nThen Abraham said, “Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on.
\nWhat if only thirty are found there?”
\nHe replied, “I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there.”
\nStill Abraham went on,
\n“Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord,
\nwhat if there are no more than twenty?”
\nThe LORD answered, “I will not destroy it, for the sake of the twenty.”
\nBut he still persisted:
\n“Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time.
\nWhat if there are at least ten there?”
\nHe replied, “For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Responsorial Psalm PS 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8<\/a><\/h4>\n
R.(3a) Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.<\/strong>
\nI will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
\nfor you have heard the words of my mouth;
\nin the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
\nI will worship at your holy temple
\nand give thanks to your name.
\nR. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.<\/strong>
\nBecause of your kindness and your truth;
\nfor you have made great above all things
\nyour name and your promise.
\nWhen I called you answered me;
\nyou built up strength within me.
\nR. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.<\/strong>
\nThe LORD is exalted, yet the lowly he sees,
\nand the proud he knows from afar.
\nThough I walk amid distress, you preserve me;
\nagainst the anger of my enemies you raise your hand.
\nR. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.<\/strong>
\nYour right hand saves me.
\nThe LORD will complete what he has done for me;
\nyour kindness, O LORD, endures forever;
\nforsake not the work of your hands.
\nR. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Reading 2 COL 2:12-14<\/a><\/h4>\n
Brothers and sisters:
\nYou were buried with him in baptism,
\nin which you were also raised with him
\nthrough faith in the power of God,
\nwho raised him from the dead.
\nAnd even when you were dead
\nin transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
\nhe brought you to life along with him,
\nhaving forgiven us all our transgressions;
\nobliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims,
\nwhich was opposed to us,
\nhe also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.<\/p>\n

Alleluia ROM 8:15BC<\/a><\/h4>\n

R. Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong>
\nYou have received a Spirit of adoption,
\nthrough which we cry, Abba, Father.
\nR. Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gospel LK 11:1-13<\/a><\/h4>\n
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
\none of his disciples said to him,
\n“Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”
\nHe said to them, “When you pray, say:
\nFather, hallowed be your name,
\nyour kingdom come.
\nGive us each day our daily bread
\nand forgive us our sins
\nfor we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
\nand do not subject us to the final test.”And he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend
\nto whom he goes at midnight and says,
\n‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
\nfor a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey
\nand I have nothing to offer him,’
\nand he says in reply from within,
\n‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked
\nand my children and I are already in bed.
\nI cannot get up to give you anything.’
\nI tell you,
\nif he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves
\nbecause of their friendship,
\nhe will get up to give him whatever he needs
\nbecause of his persistence.”And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
\nseek and you will find;
\nknock and the door will be opened to you.
\nFor everyone who asks, receives;
\nand the one who seeks, finds;
\nand to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
\nWhat father among you would hand his son a snake
\nwhen he asks for a fish?
\nOr hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
\nIf you then, who are wicked,
\nknow how to give good gifts to your children,
\nhow much more will the Father in heaven
\ngive the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”<\/div>\n

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