Prayer is one of several major themes of Luke’s Gospel and is the subject of this Sunday’s Gospel. Luke begins, “Jesus was praying in a certain place … .”

Jesus visits his friends, Martha and Mary. Luke writes, “As they went on their way, Jesus enters a village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary … .”

While elementary school students are still enjoying their summer vacations, new Catholic school principals began their first days on the job July 1, and they are anxious to move forward with their plans for the new school year that begins in mid-August in most cases.