"Always to pray, and not to faint"

That’s the lesson Christ wants us to draw from that gospel parable about a woman who persisted in asking a judge to render her justice --even to the point of disturbing him-- and finally got what she wanted. (cfr. Lk 18,1-8))

- Fr. Roy Cimagala

Like that woman we should also persist in asking God for help so we can carry out our duty of resolving very difficult problems we are having in our country and in the world in general.

We know that in the end, God will always give in to grant our petitions, even as we also should be ready to do what God would want us to do. We should just persist, never giving up, because we need nothing less than divine, and not just human, intervention. Difficult and complicated problems require difficult and complicated solutions as well.

We cannot deny that we are facing very complicated problems and issues --widespread poverty, injustice, a culture of ingrained corruption in all levels of government and society in general, etcetera-- and we just cannot be indifferent to them even if at the moment we seem to be helpless.