To draw sustenance, we must continue to go to the sources that refresh us: friends, prayer, the sacraments, the Mass and Scripture, all of which equip us for the spiritual battle, and to recognize that God is always with us too, truly fighting at our side.

Only the Samaritan turned back to praise God and (literally translated) “fell before his feet” and thanked Jesus.

“We have done only what we ought to have done” (Lk 17:10)

If we truly believe that God is on watch for the poor, the widow and the orphan, then now is the time to align ourselves with God’s reign, with Lazarus.

The complexity of the parable of the dishonest manager found in Luke rsquo s Gospel alone did not stop the church fathers from cutting to the heart of the matter Jesus commended the dishonest manager for slashing the amount of money the debtors owed to his master and encouraged his listeners to a

“Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight.”