And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. (Lk 11:5-13)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/100925.cfm
This passage does not offer us a celestial grab bag: we get anything we ask for. No, what God offers is the Holy Spirit. https://youtu.be/Hi9OdZWwf9A?si=qNg0zF9ggxYa7T-o
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Thursday XXVII, Ordinary Time
