Persistence to carry our Crosses: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Notes:

17^thSunday in Ordinary Time

Each of us carry a cross, and each of us must have perseverance

·      As we walk in life, we will have moments on the peaks of the mountains, and the darkest pits in the valleys, and normal days

·      We must continue to walk forward with our Savior, our families, friends and brothers and sisters towards heaven

To do so we must have perseverance

·      We listened to Abraham who had perseverance with his intercession prayers for Sodom and to God

·      "Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty? 
Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city;
would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it
for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?...If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom,I will spare the whole place for their sake…”

o   How about 45? 40?  30?  20? 10? 

o   As Abraham “spoke up again,” and again, and again

·      How do we pray and trust in God, over and over and over, and may God’s will be done!

Jesus taught another parable

·      “I tell you,
if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves
because of their friendship,
he will get up to give him whatever he needs
because of his persistence.”

Friends, with the cross you carry with our Savior, keep going forward with strength, confidence, trust and faith…your goal and my goal is to carry our cross to the finish line and hopefully into heaven!

Work well, pray well, and serve well for God and your neighbor!