Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 471 – Part I.
(Youcat
answer) Abraham listened to God. He was willing to set out for wherever God
commanded and to do what God willed. By his listening and his readiness to make
a new start, he is a model for our prayer.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC
2592) The prayer of
Abraham and Jacob is presented as a battle of faith marked by trust in God's
faithfulness and by certitude in the victory promised to perseverance. (CCC 2569 b) This kind of prayer is lived by many
righteous people in all religions. In his indefectible covenant with every
living creature (Gen 9:8-16). God has always called people to prayer. But it is
above all beginning with our father Abraham that prayer is revealed in the Old
Testament.
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) Not many prayers of Abraham have been handed
down. But wherever he went, he set up altars, places of prayer, to God. And so
along the journey of his life he had many sorts of experiences with God,
including some that tried and unsettled him. When Abraham saw that God was
going to destroy the sinful city of Sodom, he pleaded for it. He even wrestled
stubbornly with God. His plea for Sodom is the first great intercessory prayer
in the history of the People of God.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC
2569 a) Prayer is lived
in the first place beginning with the realities of creation. The first nine chapters of Genesis describe this
relationship with God as an offering of the first-born of Abel's flock, as the
invocation of the divine name at the time of Enosh, and as “walking with God”
(Cf. Gen 4:4, 26; Gen 5:24). Noah's offering is pleasing to God, who blesses
him and through him all creation, because his heart was upright and undivided;
Noah, like Enoch before him, "walks with God" (Gen 6:9; 8:20- 9:17).
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