SATURDAY 14TH NOVEMBER
Luke 18:1-8:
“For will God not do justice to his elect who cry out to him day and night, or will he delay them? I tell you, he will do justice to them without delay.
St. Monica was like that woman of whom the Gospel speaks today. Day and night she cried out to the Lord asking for the conversion of her son Augustine.
And God did not delay. Today her son is a great saint venerated by the whole Church.
Today may be a good day to review our prayer.
And, in particular, to review our prayer of intercession and our constancy in it.
The Lord always listens to us. But he does not always fulfil our requests at the moment and in the way we want them to be fulfilled. When this happens, we become discouraged, impatient, believe that God does not listen to us and we may even stop praying.
Learn the lesson that Jesus gives us on this page of the Gospel.
He asks us for faith and constancy in prayer.
He assures us that God will listen to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night.
Do not tire of praying without being discouraged and with the certainty that the Lord always hears our prayers. Good day.
Antonio Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf
