SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME C Lectionary #111

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME C Lectionary #111

The Lord's Prayer

In today's Gospel Jesus teaches the disciples how they are to pray. They are to pray to God as a child calls to a parent, and they are to ask for what they really need, boldly and persistently. Above all, they are to pray for the coming of God's reign and the fulfillment of God's will.

The pattern for this kind of prayer is the Lord's Prayer or the Our Father. From a very early period this prayer has been sung or spoken by communities of Christians after the Eucharistic Prayer and before Communion. The petition for daily bread was widely interpreted by early Christians to refer to the Eucharist, and the prayer for forgiveness reflected the wish for mutual reconciliation that ought to characterize a community that not only receives the Body of Christ but is the Body of Christ.

Singing the Lord's Prayer emphasizes its importance in the Communion rite. Be sure to sing the doxology ("For the kingdom," etc.) as well, even if the priest does not sing the intervening prayer, known as the embolism. The chant version, sung without accompaniment, is perhaps the best choice.

Genesis 18:20–32. Abraham offers an example of persistent prayer. The sad thing, of course, is that God could not find even ten just people in Sodom .

Psalm of the Day: Ps (137) 138

This individual psalm of thanksgiving praises God for hearing the psalmist's prayer and responding to it.

Con Mi Corazón (Florián) Cantos 82

God, on the Day I Called for Your Help (Lisicky) WC 253

Lord, on the Day I Called for Help (Cooney) GP 279/JS 109/MI-BB/SP4 64/Una Voz 255

Lord, on the Day I Called for Help (Guimont) LPMG 126

Lord, on the Day I Called for Help (Lisicky) PMB 692/PRM C87

Lord, on the Day I Called for Help (Schiavone) LP 143

Lord, on the Day I Called for Help (Somerville) CBW 162

Lord, on the Day I Called for Help (Verdi/Gelineau) WOR 915/RS 184/LPGG 920

Lord, on the Day That I Cried (Haas) GC 134/PCY3 34

Suggested Common Psalm

Ps 103: The Lord Is Kind and Merciful

Other Songs for the Liturgy

A Living Hope (2) CBW 613/PMB 284

A Praying Spirit (G) LMGM 213

Alive in Christ Jesus (2) GC 799

All That We Have (1,Ps,G) GP 618/GC 601

Ask and You Shall Receive (G) WC 818/PMB 432

At the Font We Start Our Journey (2) WC 744

At the Lamb's High Feast (2) WOR 459, 460/CBW 375/BB/GC 433/JS 424/WC 565/RS 578/GP 394/PMB 271/WS 403

Awake, O Sleeper, Rise from Death (2) WOR 586/RS 729

Baptized in Water (2) WOR 720/GC 798/RS 903/CBW 614/JS 542/WC 606/PMB 286/WS 427

*Bless the Lord (C) MI-BB/LMGM 200/JS 245, 590/GP 252

Father of Peace (G) MI-BB

*Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive (G) WOR 754/CBW 620/GC 879/JS 556/RS 952/WC 660/PMB 324

From the Depths (1,G) CBW 487/BB/JS 386/WC 520

Good Christians All (2) CBW 386/WC 561/RS 586/PMB 262

Hold Me in Life (1,G) GC 599/MI-BB/JS 702/GP 596

I Need You to Listen (1,Ps,G) RS 716/GC 582

I Will Give Thanks to You, My Lord (Ps) WC 382/PMB 147/WS 291

If You Believe and I Believe (G) GC 722/RS 852/JS 839/WC 730/WS 518

Jesus Has Conquered Death (2) LMGM 62

Keep in Mind (2) WC 802/MI-BB/GC 674/JS 589/RS 940/GP 492/PMB 36/WS 567

Lift High the Cross (2) WOR 704/CBW 435/GP 444/WC 778/MI-BB/GC 791/JS 522/RS 884/PMB 393/WS 549

Lord of All Hopefulness (1,G) WOR 568/WC 792/MI-BB/GC 578/JS 690/RS 713/CBW 497/GP 622/WS 559

My Soul, Give Thanks (C) GC 98

O Lord, Hear My Prayer (1,G) GC 586/LMGM 217/RS 718/CBW 491, 637/WC 821/PMB 415/WS 582

O the Beautiful Treasures (1) WOR 689

*Our Daily Bread (G) CBW 600

Out of the Depths (1,G) WC 418, 506/GC 128, 877/JS 107, 393/MI-BB/RS 947/GP 344/WC 248, 784/PMB 241/WS 321

Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (C) WOR 530/WC 548, 549/JS 612/MI-BB/WC 908/CBW 565/LMGM 198/RS 684/GC 551/GP 685/PMB 492

Praise the Lord, My Soul (C) GP 691

Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God (G) WOR 580/WC 819/MI-BB/GC 615/JS 720/RS 728/GP 608/PMB 433/WS 581

Shelter Me, O God (1,G) MI-BB/GC 636/JS 724/RS 765/CBW 372/GP 626

Song of the Body of Christ (2) GC 847/RS 924/WC 636/WS 620/MI-BB

Springs of Water (2) WC 324/GC 242, 243/RS 377/WS 133, 253/BB

Standin' in the Need of Prayer (G) LMGM 216/GC 579

This Day God Gives Me (1,G) WOR 673/CBW 650/WC 201/MI-BB/GC 757/JS 2/RS 4, 856/GP 727/PMB 2/WS 22

*Thy Kingdom Come (G) GP 719/GC 656/RS 776

Thy Way, O Lord (G) LMGM 39

Victory in Jesus (2) LMGM 240

We Know That Christ Is Raised, v 2 (2) WOR 721/WC 564/RS 906/CBW 398

With the Lord There Is Mercy (1) GC 127/GP 344/MI-BB/JS 106/RS 174, 176/CBW 374/PMB 172/WC 420

You Are All We Have (1,G) RS 643/GC 505