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#TomorrowIsSunday (EN+ES) | Prayer like a black eye

Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik / 15.10.2022
Prayer, St Albert Chmielowski's room in Zakopane, PhotoCredit: Sr. Amata CSFN
Prayer, St Albert Chmielowski's room in Zakopane, PhotoCredit: Sr. Amata CSFN

29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Gospel of Luke 18: 1-8

EN: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101622.cfm

You can download the commentary on the Gospel and beautiful photos:

https://www.academia.edu/88533475/Prayer_like_a_black_eye?source=swp_share

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XXIX Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario, Año C

Domingo, 16 de octubre de 2022

Evangelio de San Lucas 18: 1-8

ES: https://bible.usccb.org/es/bible/lecturas/101622.cfm


1. Introduction

How should we pray? What is essential during our prayer? Why do we pray? What are the fruits of prayer? These are just some of the questions people ask themselves. In today’s verses of the Gospel, Jesus explains what prayer should be like. He uses a very powerful example.

2. Key words

Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.

The word “necessity” in Greek is “dei”. It literally means a “need” to fulfil God’s plan. There is no other option; without our prayer we will not fulfil God’s will.

Jesus furthermore urges the disciples to pray always “without becoming weary.” The Greek term used in this place, “me enkakein” may be translated as “never give up.”

There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’ For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’

The judge’s change of heart was due to the fact that the “widow kept bothering” him. The term in the Greek original reads “hypopiadzo”, which literally means “to give someone a black eye.” That very verb is used in the image of boxing in the Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (chapter 9, verse 27).

It is hardly a coincidence that Jesus uses this word in the context of prayer. To “give someone a black eye” you need to be very close to him. Similarly, during prayer one needs to be close to God. He is physically present in our churches or chapels in the Blessed Sacrament.

Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. 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.

If the dishonest judge rendered a just decision for the widow, how much more will God, who is pure love, offer His protection to those who turn to Him for help in prayer.

3. Today

What is my image of God? Do I believe that God cares about me and is attentive to my prayer? Is my prayer a conversation with a loving God? Do I try to be with Him in church or chapel, where He is physically present in the Blessed Sacrament?

Shrine in Budzieszyn, PhotoCredit: Sr. Amata CSFN

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1. Introducción

¿Cómo rezar? ¿Qué es lo más importante cuando rezamos? ¿Por qué rezamos? ¿Cuáles son los frutos de la oración? Estas son sólo algunas de las preguntas que se hace la gente. En el Evangelio de hoy, Jesús dice cómo debe ser la oración. Utiliza un ejemplo muy poderoso.

2. Palabras clave

Para enseñar a sus discípulos la necesidad de orar siempre y sin desfallecer, Jesús les propuso esta parábola.

La palabra ” deben ” se escribe en griego como  “dei “. Literalmente, significa “necesidad” para cumplir el plan de Dios. Por lo tanto, no es opcional. Sin la oración, no cumpliremos la voluntad de Dios.

Jesús también dice que “no hay que desfallecer” en la oración, literalmente se puede traducir la expresión griega “me enkakein”: “no te rindas”.

En cierta ciudad había un juez que no temía a Dios ni respetaba a los hombres. Vivía en aquella misma ciudad una viuda que acudía a él con frecuencia para decirle: ‘Hazme justicia contra mi adversario’. Por mucho tiempo, el juez no le hizo caso, pero después se dijo: ‘Aunque no temo a Dios ni respeto a los hombres, sin embargo, por la insistencia de esta viuda, voy a hacerle justicia para que no me siga molestando’. 

El cambio de actitud del juez se produjo porque la viuda “le molestaba”. El original griego utiliza aquí la palabra “hypopiadzo”, que significa literalmente ” golpear a alguien en el ojo”. El uso del mismo verbo está en la descripción del boxeo en la carta de San Pablo a los Corintios (capítulo 9, versículo 27).

No es casualidad que Jesús utilice esa palabra en el contexto de la oración. Para “ponerle un ojo morado a alguien” hay que estar físicamente cerca de él. Del mismo modo, en la oración hay que estar cerca de Dios. Y Él está físicamente presente en nuestras iglesias y capillas en el Santísimo Sacramento.

Si así pensaba el juez injusto, ¿creen acaso que Dios no hará justicia a sus elegidos, que claman a él día y noche, y que los hará esperar? Yo les digo que les hará justicia sin tardar. 

Si el juez injusto se ocupó de la viuda, cuánto más Dios, que es puro amor, se ocupará de los que se dirigen a Él en busca de ayuda en la oración.

3. Hoy

¿Qué imagen tengo de Dios? ¿Creo que Dios se preocupa por mí, que es sensible a mi oración? ¿Es mi oración una conversación con un Dios amoroso? ¿Procuro estar con Él en la iglesia o en la capilla donde está físicamente en el Santísimo Sacramento?

 

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