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<table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" width="650" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><td id="m_-188162312435504417gmail-m_7886085874457754732layout-row-margin58301" style="padding:5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" valign="top"><table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%;border-collapse:initial" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="m_-188162312435504417gmail-m_7886085874457754732layout-row58301" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td id="m_-188162312435504417gmail-m_7886085874457754732layout-row-padding58301" style="padding:10px 30px 0px" valign="top"><table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="m_-188162312435504417gmail-m_7886085874457754732text_div57469" style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:12px;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.5;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Arial" width="580" valign="top" align="left"><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> <div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;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">Friends, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>today’s Gospel urges us to persist in prayer</b></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> The Lord wants us to ask with persistence, even stubbornness.</b></span><br><br> Now, we must not think of God as becoming exasperated by our prayer of petition, but the clear implication is that we <i style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px">will </i>get
what we want through persistence: "<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."</b></span><br><br>
How do we make sense of this? For me, the best explanation is offered
by <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>St. Augustine. He said that God doesn’t always give <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us</span> immediately
what <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span> ask for, and in fact, he compels <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us</span> to ask again and again. The
Lord wants to stretch <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us</span>, <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">expanding our desire </span>so as to receive the gift
he desires to give<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> us. </span></b></span><br><br> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>If we got everything we
wanted, right away and without effort, we wouldn’t appreciate <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">what <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span>’ve
received,</span> </b></span>and we wouldn’t really be capable of taking it in. It would
be like pouring new wine into old, shrunken wineskins, resulting in a
loss of both the skins and the wine. <br> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>So if the gift <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">doesn’t come right away, </span>don’t <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">despair</span>; rather, feel your very soul expanding in anticipation. </b></span><br><br><i style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px">Reflect: </i>Think
of something you prayed about repeatedly for a very long time. When
your prayer was answered, how had you changed from start to finish? </span></b></b></b><br></span></b></div><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><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">
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Uram, adj türelmet,<br>
Hogy elfogadjam amin nem tudok változtatni,<br>
Adj bátorságot, hogy megváltoztassam,<br>
Amit lehet, és adj bölcsességet,<br>
Hogy a kettő között különbséget tudjak tenni.<br></b></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><br>
Uram,
tégy engem békéd eszközévé, <br>
hogy szeressek ott, ahol gyűlölnek, <br>
hogy
megbocsássak ott, ahol megbántanak, <br>
hogy összekössek, ahol széthúzás
van, <br>
hogy reménységet keltsek, ahol kétségbeesés kínoz, <br>
hogy fényt
gyújtsak, ahol sötétség uralkodik, <br>
hogy örömet hozzak oda, ahol gond
tanyázik. <br></b></span>
</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Ó Uram, segíts meg, hogy törekedjem, <br>
nem arra, hogy
megvigasztaljanak, hanem hogy én vigasztaljak, <br>
nem arra, hogy
megértsenek, hanem arra, hogy én megértsek, <br>
nem arra, hogy szeressenek,
hanem hogy én szeressek. <br></b></span>
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</b></span><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Mert aki így ad, az kapni fog, <br>
aki elveszíti
magát, az talál, <br>
aki megbocsát, annak megbocsátanak, <br>
aki meghal, az
fölébred az örök életre.<br>
Amen. (Assissi Szt. Ferenc)</b></span></p>
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