Finding a Parking Place
Jackie was almost late for her job interview. She pulled into the parking lot, but just her luck, there were no parking places available. She circled the lot once and started to pray. "Lord, you know how important this job is to me. You know how much I need this job to keep our house. If you help me find a parking place, I'll say a rosary for world peace every day."
Just then, Jackie noticed a minivan backing out of a spot up ahead of her. She peeked up at the sky and said, "Don't bother. I just found one myself."
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The vocabulary of supplication in the New Testament is rich in shades of meaning: ask, beseech, plead, invoke, entreat, cry out, even "struggle in prayer." Its most usual form, because the most spontaneous, is petition: by prayer of petition we express awareness of our relationship with God. We are creatures who are not our own beginning, not the masters of adversity, not our own last end. We are sinners who as Christians know that we have already turned away from our Father. Our petition is already a turning back to him. (Catholic Catechism Par. 2629)
Just then, Jackie noticed a minivan backing out of a spot up ahead of her. She peeked up at the sky and said, "Don't bother. I just found one myself."
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The vocabulary of supplication in the New Testament is rich in shades of meaning: ask, beseech, plead, invoke, entreat, cry out, even "struggle in prayer." Its most usual form, because the most spontaneous, is petition: by prayer of petition we express awareness of our relationship with God. We are creatures who are not our own beginning, not the masters of adversity, not our own last end. We are sinners who as Christians know that we have already turned away from our Father. Our petition is already a turning back to him. (Catholic Catechism Par. 2629)
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