October 9, 2025—Thursday of the 27th week of Ordinary Time
Malachi 3:13-20a; Luke 11:5-13
Homily
In the section of Luke's Gospel that we have been reading in the lectionary for the past few days, Luke describes Jesus' journey to Jerusalem and places events there that other evangelists have placed at other times in Jesus' life. This section also contains stories that only Luke tells. This was the case with the Gospel of the Good Samaritan and that of Martha and Mary. In the text we have just read (which forms a whole with yesterday's), Luke reports two teachings of Jesus on prayer that we also find in Matthew, namely the Lord's Prayer and the exhortation: "Ask and you shall receive... etc." And between these two teachings, Luke places another teaching of Jesus, which he alone recounts: that of the importunate friend, which we have just read. Let us pause for a moment on this passage.