seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
-- Mt 7:7-12
Christian petition is centered on the desire and search for the Kingdom to come,
in keeping with the teaching of Christ. There is a hierarchy in these
petitions: we pray first for the Kingdom, then for what is necessary to
welcome it and cooperate with its coming. This collaboration with the
mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit, which is now that of the Church,
is the object of the prayer of the apostolic community. It is the prayer
of Paul, the apostle par excellence, which reveals to us how the divine
solicitude for all the churches ought to inspire Christian prayer. By
prayer every baptized person works for the coming of the Kingdom.
-- CCC 2632
Thursday of the First Week of Lent
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