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Bishop Barron's Daily Reflection- Ask Anything...
Word on Fire Ministry | 5-22-20 | Bishop Robert Barron

Posted on 05/22/2020 10:06:58 AM PDT by MurphsLaw

Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter John 16:20-23
Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus exhorts us to pray with expectant faith: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.” Invoking the name of Jesus is an effective way to monitor the quality and to shape the content of our prayer.

When we pray “through Christ our Lord,” we are assuming the stance and attitude of Jesus, aligning ourselves to him, compelling ourselves to desire what he desires. Accordingly, it is altogether consistent to pray in the name of Jesus for peace, for justice, for the forgiveness of our enemies, for greater faith, or for the health of those we love.

Those are all goods that Jesus would want. But how anomalous it would be to pray for vengeance against our enemies in Jesus’ name, or for a Maserati through Christ our Lord!


TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: miracles

1 posted on 05/22/2020 10:06:58 AM PDT by MurphsLaw
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To: MurphsLaw
Ok, Bishop, when are you going to come clean and stop pretending to be Catholic?
2 posted on 05/22/2020 10:15:01 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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