Justice is Done for them Speedily

Justice is Done for them Speedily

Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time

When peaceful stillness compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent, Your all-powerful word, from heaven's royal throne bounded, a fierce warrior, into the doomed land, bearing the sharp sword of your inexorable decree. And as he alighted, he filled every place with death; he still reached to heaven, while he stood upon the earth. For all creation, in its several kinds, was being made over anew, serving its natural laws, that your children might be preserved unharmed. Wisdom 18:14-16, 19:6

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?" Luke 18:7-8

Piety

Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador, pray for us!

Fr Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ

Fr Ignacio Martín-Baró, SJ

Fr Segundo Montes, SJ

Fr Juan Moreno, SJ

Fr Joaquín Lopez y Lopez, SJ

Fr Amando Lopez, SJ

Ms Elba Ramos

Miss Celina Ramos

¡PRESENTE!

Study

Thirty years is slightly longer than the period when Christ walked on earth.  That also is how much time since the early morning murder of six Jesuits, a mother and her daughter who worked with them.  In the early morning hours of November 16, 1989, a squad of soldiers entered the grounds of the Central American University where they taught.  

Evangelization consists of working for social justice no matter what the cost.  Today’s readings seem chosen to emphasize that very point. When the peaceful stillness of November 16, 1989 “compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent,” death descended upon these missionaries of truth.  Although the mortal bodies of the martyrs were not preserved, their spirit, as the Spirit of the Lord, remains with us forever from the Cloud of Witnesses.

Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.  Will the Father protect his children and grant their every wish no matter what ways humanity might persecute and execute the Children of the Light?

Action

The civil war in El Salvador is over, but the struggle endures. We cannot separate action (social reform) from the proclamation of the gospel or the call to personal piety and study.

What action does today’s Word call you to perform?

Where was Pope Francis yesterday? Ahead of Sunday’s World Day of the Poor, Francis visited a new homeless shelter-soup kitchen just outside St. Peter’s Square. Is there a better image to exemplify the Pope’s vision of a “poor Church for the poor,” and serves as a perfect analogy of the “Church as a field hospital?”