Saturday of week 25 in Ordinary Time

The Gospel reminds us of something Ignatius repeated: “always remember God’s grace in times of desolation, and remember the difficult prayer times when things are going well.” In today’s short passage from Luke we hear that Jesus’ mission seems to be most successful, and surely the apostles were thrilled about that – they were backing a winner! But “while they were amazed with his deeds” Jesus gives them the hard news: he will be handed over to the enemy and brought low. The last line of the short text speaks for many of us. The apostles didn’t know what he was talking about, and they were afraid to ask.
I don’t know about you – but too many times I have been confused about what Jesus is trying to tell me, and I often frightened to stay with the difficult prayer to find out what it might really mean. It would be important for us all, to pray for one another during this Mass, that we WILL understand God’s desires for us, and will never be afraid to turn to the love that surrounds us, and count of the Divine Fidelity – in every situation.