August 8 - Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Hb.1:12-2:4; Ps.9:8-13; Mt.17:14-20) "They trust in you who cherish your name, for you forsake not those who seek you, O Lord." "Why could we not expel it?" the disciples asked Jesus regarding the boy so severely possessed by a demon. "'Because you have so little trust,' He told them." Brothers and sisters, is it the Lord who "delays"? Is it He who fails to cast wickedness and misery from our midst? Or is it not rather we who fail in faith? We complain and ask, When will the Lord act? but is the Lord not quick to act, as He does in our gospel today, whenever we call upon Him in truth? Does…
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