Today's Gospel March 5 2020 with comment

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 7,7-12.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you;
because whoever asks receives, and whoever seeks finds and to whom knocks will be open.
Who among you will give a stone to the son who asks him for bread?
Or if he asks for a fish, will he give a snake?
So if you who are bad know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Everything you want men to do to you, you too do it to them: this is in fact the Law and the Prophets.

St. Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716)
preacher, founder of religious communities

47th and 48th squad
Pray with confidence and perseverance
Pray with great confidence, which has as its foundation the infinite goodness and liberality of God and the promises of Jesus Christ. (...)

The greatest desire that the eternal Father has regarding us is to communicate to us the saving waters of his grace and his mercy, and exclaims: "Come and drink my water with prayer"; and when he is not prayed for, he complains that he is abandoned: "They have forsaken me, source of living water" (Jer 2,13:16,24). It is to please Jesus Christ to ask him for thanks, and if you do not, he complains affectionately: “So far you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you "(cf. Jn 7,7:11,9; Mt XNUMX: XNUMX; Lk XNUMX: XNUMX). And again, to give you more confidence to pray to him, he committed his word, telling us that the eternal Father will give us everything we will ask him in his name.

But to trust we add perseverance in prayer. Only those who persevere in asking, seeking and knocking will receive, find and enter.