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 <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>today's Gospel exhorts us to pray with persistence</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>This command is 
everywhere in the Bible</b></span>. We see it in </span></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Abraham's steady petition on 
behalf of the people of Sodom. We see it in today's account of the 
persistent widow. We hear it in Jesus' extraordinary teaching: "Knock 
and the door shall be opened to you; seek and you will find; ask and it 
will be given to you."</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><br></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>One
 reason</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> that we don't receive</b></span></span></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> what we want </span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>through prayer</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>is that we 
give up too easily</b></span>. What could be behind this rule of prayer? <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Augustine 
said</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>that God sometimes <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">delays in </span>giving us what we want because he 
wants our
hearts to expand.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The more ardently we desire something, </b></span>the more ready 
we are when it comes, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the more we treasure it.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The very act of asking 
persistently is accomplishing something spiritually</b></span> important. So, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>when 
the Lord </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>seems slow to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>answer your prayer</b></span>, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b>never give up.</b></u></span></span></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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