Faith and Prayer of the Week
Our readings today explore how
faith begins and how faith works. Faith
begins with God’s initiative of love,
together with God’s promise about the
future. The passage from Hebrews
urges readers to have an assured
confidence in God, who promised and
delivered a lasting legacy to Abraham.
The book of Wisdom reminds readers
of the God who promised and delivered
freedom from slavery during the
Exodus.
In the Gospel passage from
Luke, Jesus begins with the promise
that “your Father is pleased to give you
the Kingdom,” before describing how to
live faithfully during times when God
seems absent. God’s promises mean
that God is fully invested in our future.
Living in these promises, we can
confidently let go of fear and insecurity.
We can anticipate that when God
intervenes in our lives, it will be for our
benefit. And we can become God’s partners in fulfilling these divine promises.
Prayer of the Week
Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught
by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our
Father, bring, we pray, to perfection
in our hearts the spirit of adoption as
your sons and
daughters, that we
may merit to enter
into the inheritance
which you have
promised. Through
our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son, who lives
and reigns with you in
the unity of the Holy
Spirit, God, for ever
and ever.