Luke 18:1-8
Jesus told his Disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, "there was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, 'Render a just verdict for me against my adversary.' For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, 'While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just verdict for her lest she finally come and strike me.'" The Lord said, "Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
The Gospel of the Lord.
The Feast Day of Frances Xavier Cabrini, our local saint whose image is a mosaic on a wall upstairs, born in Italy in 1850, the youngest of 13 children. in 1880, at 30, she established the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart; by 1887, many schools, orphanages and hospitals in Italy; in 1889, Pope Leo XIII, known for his encyclical on Capital and Labor, Rerum Novarum, and whose name is in a stained glass window in our Church upstairs. asked her to come to the United States where at first speaking no English, and for 28 years, she worked establishing schools, orphanages and hospitals, eventually 67 in the Unites States, and more in Argentina, Brazil and Nicaragua, in an era mostly before commercial airplanes, radio and television. She died in Chicago in 1917. St. Cabrini Home originally an orphanage and later an old age home. purchased from the Jesuits whose founder was St. Ignatius Loyola and her namesake St. Francis Xavier, sold because there was no water to a little nun who could hardly speak English, who brought in pipe drillers, told them where to drill and found plenty of water. The Mother Cabrini girls marching band marched in our Pelham Memorial Day Parade last year, Memorial Day 2009.
We start with the question is, who is asking whom for justice. Is it us asking God for justice? Whatever we ask of God, it is the same, that we know God and have the strength to follow His way.
Or is it God asking us to recognize Him and follow Him. Is it us bothering God or is it God bothering us? Is it us calling out to God Day and night? Or is it God calling out to us day and night. For God knows what we need from Him, what we ask of Him as we need it and before we ask it. If we are asking of God day and night, is it now that we are unable to see what God has given us and what God asks us to do with his gifts to us?
Lord Jesus, make us resist temptation
Christ Jesus, and when troubles come, give us endurance
Lord Jesus, but when things go well, may we remember to give you thanks.
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