October 8, 2025 // Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel: Luke 11:1-4
Reflect on the Word //
It was not poor planning or ambitious hopes that brought my life to a pace that felt like I was on a treadmill set just a little beyond my gait. When I finally made it into His Presence in the Adoration Chapel, I knelt and sighed: Thank You for helping me make it here, Lord! In response, I felt His warm and welcoming smile. It was like He was matching my gait when I heard: Give us this day our daily bread (see Luke 11:3).
He said to my heart: Ask. I knew it was His voice in my interior because it echoed with a sense of His vulnerable Heart. He was responding to my deeper needs that had brought me into the chapel at such a pace—those unconscious spaces that cry out for the Savior.
It was the same promptness and simple goodness with which Jesus responds to His disciples’ desire to learn how to pray like Him in the Gospel today. Prayer is easy for Him. He doesn’t need a long technical and historical discourse to teach His disciples how He prays. They are simply captivated by seeing Him pray, and so they ask Him. His answer is frank, clear, and reveals the mystery of the Blessed Trinity.
When I felt Jesus tell me, Ask, it was with a sense of His union with the Father. It was like I could touch the Father’s nearness and provision within the invitation. But the challenge was that I was being directed to be more vulnerable, more intimate. To ask for my daily bread would mean revealing those parts of my heart that can be disappointed, places of real hopes.
It took me weeks to get used to praying like this, and it became like an adventure of greater and greater beauty because the Father’s care became something I could see and touch. He healed areas of defense, doubt, and fear, and launched our relationship into new vistas: Ask.
The Lord invites us all to pray the Our Father with the same childlike asking that the disciples modeled in the Gospel today.
Relate to the Lord // What will you ask of the Lord today? Share your desires with Him vulnerably now.
Maria Kim-Ngân Bùi, after twenty years in religious life, is discerning a call to found a community of consecrated religious women dedicated to Our Lady and who will pray reparation for sins against the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, pray for conversions, and work for the evangelization of those who have left the Church or feel furthest from the Church.
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