The 27th Sunday of the Year
Hab 1:2-3 & 2:2-4; 2 Tim 1:6-8 & 13-14; Lk 17:5-19 (year c)
‘How long, Lord, am I to cry for help while you will not listen; to cry ‘oppression’ in your ear and you will not save?” The complaint of Habakkuk voiced Israel’s mounting anxiety as she was overshadowed by the threat of Babylon’s encroaching power. Israel had indeed sinned, but now, through the prophet, she had turned to God. But in this, the darkest night of her history, was God listening to his people?
The response, written down in Habakkuk’s vision, was not so much an answer as a call to patient faith: “The upright man will live by his faithfulness.”
