July 25, 2010, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading, Gn 18:20-32
In those days, the LORD said: "The outcry against
Sodom and Gomorrah is so great,
and their sin so grave,
that I must go down and see whether or not their
actions
fully correspond to the cry against them that comes
to me.
I mean to find out."
While Abraham's visitors walked on farther toward
Sodom,
the LORD remained standing before Abraham.
Then Abraham drew nearer and said:
"Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?
Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city;
would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it
for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?
Far be it from you to do such a thing,
to make the innocent die with the guilty
so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated
alike!
Should not the judge of all the world act with
justice?"
The LORD replied,
"If I find fifty innocent people in the city of
Sodom,
I will spare the whole place for their sake."
Abraham spoke up again:
"See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord,
though I am but dust and ashes!
What if there are five less than fifty innocent
people?
Will you destroy the whole city because of those
five?"
He answered, "I will not destroy it, if I find
forty-five there."
But Abraham persisted, saying "What if only forty are
found there?"
He replied, "I will forbear doing it for the sake of
the forty."
Then Abraham said, "Let not my Lord grow impatient if
I go on.
What if only thirty are found there?"
He replied, "I will forbear doing it if I can find
but thirty there."
Still Abraham went on,
"Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord,
what if there are no more than twenty?"
The LORD answered, "I will not destroy it, for the
sake of the twenty."
But he still persisted:
"Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up
this last time.
What if there are at least ten there?"
He replied, "For the sake of those ten, I will not
destroy it."
Responsorial Psalm
R. Lord, on the day I
called for help, you answered me.
I will give thanks to
you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the
words of my mouth;
in the presence of the
angels I will sing your praise;
I will worship at your
holy temple
and give thanks to
your name.
R. Lord, on the day I
called for help, you answered me.
Because of your
kindness and your truth;
for you have made
great above all things
your name and your
promise.
When I called you
answered me;
you built up strength
within me.
R. Lord, on the day I
called for help, you answered me.
The LORD is exalted,
yet the lowly he sees,
and the proud he knows
from afar.
Though I walk amid
distress, you preserve me;
against the anger of
my enemies you raise your hand.
R. Lord, on the day I
called for help, you answered me.
Your right hand saves
me.
The LORD will complete
what he has done for me;
your kindness, O LORD,
endures forever;
forsake not the work
of your hands.
R. Lord, on the day I
called for help, you answered me.
2nd
Reading, Col 2:12-14
Brothers and sisters:
You were buried with
him in baptism,
in which you were also
raised with him
through faith in the
power of God,
who raised him from
the dead.
And even when you were
dead
in transgressions and
the un-circumcision of your flesh,
he brought you to life
along with him,
having forgiven us all
our transgressions;
obliterating the bond
against us, with its legal claims,
which was opposed to
us,
he also removed it
from our midst, nailing it to the cross.
Gospel, Lk 11:1-13
Jesus was praying in a
certain place, and when he had finished,
one of his disciples
said to him,
"Lord, teach us to
pray just as John taught his disciples."
He said to them, "When
you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be
your name,
your kingdom come.
Give us each day our
daily bread
and forgive us our
sins
for we ourselves
forgive everyone in debt to us,
and do not subject us
to the final test."
And he said to them,
"Suppose one of you has a friend
to whom he goes at
midnight and says,
'Friend, lend me three
loaves of bread,
for a friend of mine
has arrived at my house from a journey
and I have nothing to
offer him,'
and he says in reply
from within,
'Do not bother me; the
door has already been locked
and my children and I
are already in bed.
I cannot get up to
give you anything.'
I tell you,
if he does not get up
to give the visitor the loaves
because of their
friendship,
he will get up to give
him whatever he needs
because of his
persistence.
"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.
What father among you
would hand his son a snake
when he asks for a
fish?
Or hand him a scorpion
when he asks for an egg?
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?"
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