The Seventeenth Sunday of the Year
Gen 18:20-32; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13 (year c)
Every real relationship must find expression as the one reaches out to the other. Prayer is the expression of our relationship with God, for it is in prayer that we reach out to God, allowing ourselves to be known by him. The way in which we pray leads us into the truth about God and the truth about ourselves.
The prayer of Abraham, preceding the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah, is instructive. Immediately before this prayer, Lot, Abraham’s kinsman, had set off to settle in the doomed cities. Fearing for their fate, Abraham pleaded with the Lord: “Are you really going to destroy the just man with the sinner. Will the judge of the whole earth not administer justice?”
