BE PERSISTANT IN PRAYER
When peaceful silence lay over all, and night had run the half of her swift course, down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word; into the heart of a doomed land the stern warrior leapt. Carrying your unambiguous command like a sharp sword, he stood, and filled the universe with death; he touched the sky, yet trod the earth.
For, to keep your children from all harm, the whole creation,
obedient to your commands, was once more, and newly, fashioned in its nature. Overshadowing
the camp there was the cloud, where water had been, dry land was seen to rise, the
Red Sea became an unimpeded way, the tempestuous flood a green plain; sheltered
by your hand, the whole nation passed across, gazing at these amazing miracles.
They were like horses at pasture, they skipped like lambs, singing your
praises, Lord, their deliverer.
Responsorial Psalm: Remember the
wonders the Lord has done.
Gospel Luke 8:1-8 The parable of the unjust judge
CDR: Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray
continually and never lose heart. ‘There was a judge in a certain town’ he said
‘who had neither fear of God nor respect for man. In the same town there was a
widow who kept on coming to him and saying, “I want justice from you against my
enemy!” For a long time he refused, but at last he said to himself, “Maybe I
have neither fear of God nor respect for man, but since she keeps pestering me
I must give this widow her just rights, or she will persist in coming and worry
me to death.”’
And the Lord said ‘You notice what the unjust judge has to say?
Now will not God see justice done to his chosen who cry to him day and night
even when he delays to help them? I promise you, he will see justice done to
them, and done speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find any faith
on earth?’
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