“If your son asks for bread, will you give him a stone?” (Mt. 7:7-10)

Today the texts invite us to visit, in the Old Testament, the Book of Esther: the prayer of a woman who touches the heart of God on behalf of her people. Let’s examine our prayer and look at its goals, our intentions. Do we love our people as Esther did? With Jesus, in this “Sermon on the Mount,” we are learning to pray: “Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you; for everyone who asks receives, whoever seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it is opened. If your son asks for bread, will you give him a stone?” Let us return to the Gospel, let us write it if possible, let us ask the Holy Spirit to animate our hearts to that great confidence that Jesus teaches. There are many voices that affirm that God does not intervene in History. Could it be that He has left it to the power of our faith…of our prayer?