Today is July 27, the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
We read at today’s Mass, “And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Mt 7:7).
These words from Jesus remind us that prayer is not a desperate cry into the void. It is a real conversation with a God who hears us. In the life of the Church, the intercession of the saints gives us powerful examples of this truth.
For Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, one confirmed miracle made his beatification possible. In 1933, a young Italian girl named Domenica suffered a life-threatening rupture of her appendix. Her doctors had given up hope. But a nun caring for Domenica placed a picture of Pier Giorgio on her abdomen and prayed for his intercession. The whole community joined in prayer.
A living sign of holiness
Domenica was instantly and completely healed. No medical explanation could account for her recovery. The case was carefully investigated, and the Church confirmed it as a miracle through Pier Giorgio’s prayers.
This is not magic or superstition. It is a living sign that holiness is real, and that those who have gone before us in faith continue to care for us. Pier Giorgio’s life and intercession both reflect today’s Gospel promise: those who ask receive, those who seek find.
Today, let us bring our own needs to God with confidence, trusting in his goodness.
Let us pray,
O God, protector of those who hope in you, without whom nothing has firm foundation, nothing is holy, bestow in abundance your mercy upon us and grant that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may use the good things that pass in such a way as to hold fast even now to those that ever endure. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
