The 30th Sunday of the Year
Eccl 35:12-14 & 16-19; 2 Tim 4:6-8 & 16-18; Lk 18:9-14 (Year C)
“The Lord is close to the broken-hearted; those whose spirit is crushed he will save. The Lord ransoms the souls of his servants. Those who hide in him shall not be condemned.”
The prayer of the psalmist cuts through the superficial assurances that so often cloak the deeper vulnerability at the heart of every sinner. We long for God, and yet He to whom we turn for salvation is also the one who weighs our lives in judgment. How are we to approach such a judge, described in Ecclesiasticus as “no respecter of personages”?
