“Praying is something we do in our time. The answers come in God’s time.” [A Reflection for Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time by Sebastian Gomes]
“There’s a wonderful scene in the movie “Rudy” that brings the parable where "Jesus likens the kingdom to a field where wheat and weeds grow so closely together that the weeds can’t be removed without damaging the wheat.
Only at the end of the age (the final judgment) will the Son of Man, as Jesus referred to himself, separate them accordingly. to life.
Rudy Ruettiger, a young man of small stature from a working-class family in Joliet, Ill., dreams of playing football for his beloved University of Notre Dame. With no money or academic prospects, he manages to get into nearby Holy Cross College, where he studies relentlessly in the hopes of being accepted as a transfer student to Notre Dame. After receiving multiple rejection letters, a distraught Rudy finds himself in the basilica on campus, where he bumps into retired university president, Fr. John Cavanaugh. A conversation ensues.
Fr. Cavanaugh takes a deep breath and says, “Son, in 35 years of
religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible
facts. There is a God, and I’m not him.”
“Maybe I haven’t
prayed enough,” says Rudy while looking upward
beyond the sanctuary. “I’m sure that’s not
the problem,” replies Fr. Cavanaugh. “Praying is something we do in our time.
The answers come in God’s time.”
Lord, let our hearts and wills be always raised up to you, so that we may swiftly answer your call. Help us to be patient with Your will and Your plan, and may Your promises give us Hope.
May God Be Praised!
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