LIVE IT TODAY: Thursday, October 9, 2025
You are My beloved child. Do not fear asking, seeking, or knocking—My heart is already open to you.
LIVE IT TODAY: Thursday, October 9, 2025
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GOD’S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
You are My beloved child. Do not fear asking, seeking, or knocking—My heart is already open to you.
INVOCATION
Come, Holy Spirit! Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother Mary, open my heart to hear and receive all that You desire for me. Draw me ever more deeply into the Love and Life of the Blessed Trinity!
GOSPEL | Luke 11:5-13
Jesus said to his disciples:
“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 him 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?”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
God delights more in our asking than we do in receiving.
Prayer, Jesus teaches, is not a transaction but a trust test. The parable’s humor is intentional—a neighbor pounding at midnight, a groggy friend shouting excuses through a locked door, a family startled awake. Yet persistence wins. The Greek word Jesus uses for “persistence” (anaideia) literally means shameless boldness. He invites us to pray with that kind of audacity—not as beggars before a stranger, but as children before a Father.
This passage is not about prying blessings from a reluctant God, but about awakening us to His generosity. The crescendo comes in Jesus’ question: “What father among you…?” If flawed human parents know how to give, how much more will our perfect Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask! The greatest gift, then, is not a thing but Himself—the Spirit who fills, teaches, and transforms.
Here lies the Gospel’s piercing reversal: prayer is not about changing God’s mind but aligning ours with His heart. The more we ask, seek, and knock, the more we discover that what we truly need is Him.
Families live this dynamic daily. Children ask incessantly—for snacks, for toys, for attention—and parents respond with both patience and correction. In that rhythm of asking and answering, love matures. So too with God. He invites the persistence not because He is deaf, but because we are distracted. Repetition refines desire. Waiting deepens trust.
Many of us stop knocking too soon. We let unanswered prayers become evidence of absence rather than invitations to intimacy. But every door of delay is still held by the same Father who knows how to give good gifts in the perfect time.
Parents, do not let discouragement silence your prayers. Ask boldly. Seek relentlessly. Knock without shame. And pray over your children by name, asking that they would never doubt the Father’s goodness—that they would learn to persist not from fear, but from the unshakable knowledge that they are loved.
“Prayer is both a gift of grace and a determined response on our part. It always presupposes effort.” (CCC 2725)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
Shameless Boldness: How persistent are you in prayer when God seems silent or delayed?
Good Gifts: What might God be trying to give you that is deeper than what you’re asking for?
Home of Prayer: How can your family learn to pray with greater confidence in the Father’s love?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, share one prayer intention you’ve been asking God for—and how it has stretched your trust.
After sharing, each family member should pray over another by name: Heavenly Father, pour out Your grace so that [Name] may know You as a loving Father. Free [Name] from doubt and discouragement. Strengthen [Name] to keep asking, seeking, and knocking with bold faith. Fill [Name] with Your Holy Spirit and the joy of Your presence.
DAILY PARENT & GRANDPARENT BLESSING
LORD JESUS CHRIST, let Your holy anointing be upon each of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren this day and week, including all to whom they are called in vocation, and all future generations! In Your Sacred Name we claim them for You! We renounce all whispers, lies, and influences of the Enemy! We pray right now that each know Your loving Presence, be forged in virtue, and be flooded with an abundance of Your Holy Spirit to live fully their identity and mission in You now and through all eternity, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother! Amen.
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GOING VERTICAL
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Just as the vertical beam upholds the horizontal beam of the Cross, so too does undistracted, dedicated daily turning to God as our lifeblood uphold and strengthen every part of life. Start with just three minutes. Wait patiently for the breakthrough beyond the noise. Let Him speak.
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