2022-Jul-24: Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
2022-Jul-24: Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Opening prayer Heavenly Father, send forth your Spirit to enlighten our minds and dispose our hearts to accept your truth. Help us to listen to one another with openness and honesty, eager to learn from the talents and intuitions that you have given each of us. Never let differences of opinion diminish our mutual esteem and love. May we leave this meeting with more knowledge and love for you and your Son. In the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Theme of the liturgy We learn the proper way to prayer Genesis 18:20-32 This week’s text continues the story from the three visitors under the terebinths of Mamre (18:1-10a). After the guests have eaten, drunk, and rested, Abraham escorts them to the road, and they depart on their way to Sodom. We read that the Holy One has heard the great outcry against the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah but no specifics about the nature of their wickedness. It is interesting that even...