--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 3/05/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 3/05/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/03/05/daily-readings-reflection-for-30509#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 3/05/09 Mar 5, 2009 3:00:44 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 3/05/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/readings/030509.shtml) Scripture: Thurs. of First week in Lent...Esther (C) 12:14-16,23-25. Psalm 138:1-2.2-3.7-8. Matthew 7:7-12. Lectionary # 228: "Knock and it will be opened to you." Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, continues to help us make our journey through Lent. Today the theme is prayer and more precisely the prayer of petition. This is used at most liturgical celebrations in the intercessions where both at the Eucharist and at the Liturgy of the Hours we make known our petitions to the Lord with appropriate intentions and responses. We are knocking on the door hoping that Jesus will open to us and we know for sure he will. All three readings which include the Psalm response and its chosen verses are centered on prayer. They are given a focus by Jesus' telling us that such prayer of petition will be heard, and we know, this requires a deep faith of the heart on our part. We learn that Esther prays for the deliverance and safety of her people Israel before a mighty king. The king is not the problem but a culprit who hates her people. His name is Haman. She is beseeching the Lord to give her strength to approach the king and ask him to rid her of the enemy as well as to protect all her people. Her life is endangered in approaching the king but with the prayers she has made and her fasting she courageously does present herself to the king and is heard. The narrative ends in a success for the Israelites and Esther becomes Queen. Petitions are an easy form of prayer and we have prayed in this mode since childhood. Since the liturgical intercessions are well crafted we need to personally add our own sometimes in the silence of our hearts or in the parish or community where such individual petitions are encouraged. Most university chaplains encourage this and it is practiced every day in religious congregations where the brothers, sisters, and priests gather to worship God. We know that Jesus also tells us that "For wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20). Matthew is the only Gospel that uses the word Church on two occasions and thus he shows us the necessity of intercessory prayer within the context of a congregation, or in a church, or a community of the faithful. Jesus has asked us to knock on the door of his heart. Then in the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation we learn that Jesus returns the favor by knocking on the door of our heart. He says in the last part of his addressing the seven churches of the Apocalypse: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with me." Rev.3:20). Let us keep knocking and opening doors for Jesus and for one another. 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