Jesus said to his disciples: “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.” (Lk 11:5-13)

The reason we can ask, the reason we can seek, the reason we can knock at the door, is that Jesus has taught how to pray: “When you pray, say, Father, hallowed be your name.” Yesterday, I celebrated a special Mass in the home of Margarita Ochoa Ochoa who was celebrating her 100th birthday. In the middle of the party following the Mass, she turned on the television so that she and her baby sister could pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. It was a wonderful bit of spiritual wisdom from a 100 year-old youngster.