The gospel for Saturday of the 32nd week in ordinary time is taken from Luke 18. 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 decision 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 decision 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 to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? It’s easy for us at times to imagine that God is not as interested in where we are and what we need. Sometimes we imply that he’s like the judge in the story that has to be pestered and bothered in order to get something from Him. But not nothing could be further from the truth.

Nothing is more important that we believe that our God is the God who is immediately ready to respond to anything that we need. We need to trust in his willingness to be the God he’s promised to be. Please take a few moments to reflect on these thoughts, and then I will close with a prayer. Satan Foreign Father, help us when we doubt, when we feel distant from God or we feel that God is not listening, give us the confidence to know that beyond our imagining, he’s engaged in everything that we do and longs for us to receive the grace that we need to become the people he calls us to be. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.