{"id":98,"date":"2025-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=98"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:10:15","slug":"the-cross-and-prayer-ask-with-faith-daily-readings-march-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"The Cross and Prayer: Ask with Faith | Daily Readings | March 13, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lent\u2019s heating up, and March 13, 2025\u2014Thursday of the First Week\u2014throws down a challenge: pray hard, trust deep. These readings light the way\u2014desperation, answered calls, bold asks. Ready to knock? Here\u2019s the spark: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Reading (Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25): Esther begs God in ashes\u2014He\u2019s her only shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm (Psalm 138): \u201cLord, on the day I called, you answered\u201d\u2014He\u2019s already there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gospel (Matthew 7:7-12): Jesus says ask, seek, knock\u2014God\u2019s got the good stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our short reflection fires it up\u2014Lent\u2019s your time to pound the door. Whether you\u2019re lost or locked in, this one\u2019s your push. Watch now, and let\u2019s pray it out together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Cross and Prayer: Ask with Faith | Daily Readings | March 13, 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ia684qzvbXU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent\u2019s heating up, and March 13, 2025\u2014Thursday of the First Week\u2014throws down a challenge: pray hard, trust deep. These readings light the way\u2014desperation, answered calls, bold asks. Ready to knock? Here\u2019s the spark: First Reading (Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25): Esther begs God in ashes\u2014He\u2019s her only shot. Psalm (Psalm 138): \u201cLord, on the day I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christus-dominus-bread-of-life","category-daily-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}