Mass for July 24, 2022 – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
On this Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we celebrate the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. As we honour our grandparents and elderly people, today’s scripture readings open all of us to the centrality and necessity of prayer and petition to God, setting this within the unfathomable depths of divine generosity. In the first reading, Abraham intercedes for Sodom and Gomorrah, asking the Lord to save the city if even ten righteous people are found there. In the second reading, Saint Paul writes to the Colossians and encourages them to trust the grace of baptism to take away sins and give life. In the Gospel, Jesus teaches his disciples to pray. He instructs them to ask, search, and knock.
