July 27 th, 2025 (17 th Sunday Ordinary C)
Dear brothers and sisters,
today we are taught how to pray. Abraham pleads to God for the city of Sodom with persistence. Also in the parable, Jesus Christ says to pray with persistence, believing that God is our Father, that already knows best what we need even before asking him. We are called to pray to God with this persistence and without getting tired of asking. So often we pray badly or do not really know how to pray. We give up from the start and do not even pray many times, we just go on through the day carrying everything on our shoulders. We need to be initiated and taught how to pray by Jesus Christ. We need to believe and experience that we have a heavenly Father. The devil and the world constantly and “persistently” tell us the opposite: “You are alone, nobody loves you! Where is your God!” God in his infinite goodness towards us would like to give to us everyday his Holy Spirit. The problem is we never ask for it or get tired or think that it is useless. Our lack of persistent prayer reveals to us our lack of trust in God and how easily we follow the world. Christ shows us today that we do have a heavenly Father. God wants to protect us from the evil one and his traps and temptations. Through this persistent prayer faith is awakened in us and Christ can immediately come to save us, filling us with his Holy Spirit and the eternal life that faith brings. Christ is the one that today persistently prays for us to the Father and is not tired of giving to us what is good, which is his life and his Holy Spirit!