Newsletter – 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.

Jesus teaches us to ask, to seek, and to knock. If we do, we are promised that we shall receive, we shall find, and doors will be opened for us.

Does this mean that prayers are a type of magic and that all we have to do is pray and we can control the outcome of the world? If not, what do you think it means?

Jesus teaches us to pray: ‘Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive all who do us wrong.’

Is there anyone who has done you wrong whom you cannot forgive? What gets in the way of your forgiveness?

If all our sins are forgiven anyway, why should we even try to resist temptation? Why not just continue to sin if we can always be forgiven?

What would Jesus say to that proposition?