Salve, Regina, Mater Misericordiae.
In our first reading for today's Holy Mass,
St. David is weeping over the death of his son Absalom,
saying, My young son Absalom, Absalom,
my son, I wish I had died in your place.
Absalom, who was trying to take over the kingship from David,
who humiliated his, was probably going to kill his father,
or certainly his men would have,
and he humiliated his father by taking his wives,
and he did so much terrible things against his father,
and yet David loved him to the point of weeping over him,
and wanting to die in his stead.
And we can see how he really has the heart of God, as Scripture says.
He has a heart after God,
and how God weeps over our sins, our folly,
but especially over our demise,
if we are heading down the wrong, down the path to hell.
Our Lord weeps for us, over us,
and strives to do all he can for our salvation.
And in the end, we see that we are not alone.
And in the gospel today, our Lord is traveling about,
and the synagogue official comes up to him
and asks him to come and heal his daughter,
who is on the point of death from illness,
and on his way, he is with a crowd,
and the crowd is pressing around him,
and a woman with a hemorrhage says to herself,
all I have to do is touch his cloak,
and I will be healed, and she does,
and he's healed, she's healed,
and our Lord swings around trying to find who did that,
because he found power had left him,
and we can see here that our Lord didn't want her
to have an imperfect faith,
thinking that he's some kind of a lucky charm,
or he doesn't know what happened
with power going out from him, her being healed.
So our Lord wanted to,
he wanted to perfect her faith by showing her
that he did know that God does know in healing us,
and that he knew, and that he healed him deliberately
and consciously because of his love for her
and wanting to do this good for her to reward her faith.
And so he strengthens her faith in that way,
and she goes away.
He strengthens her faith in that way,
that not only the cure, but the stronger faith and knowledge of God's love and care for her.
And then he goes towards the synagogue official's house,
and they inform him that the daughter is already dead.
And Jesus tells the official not to have fear, but to have trust and faith in God that he would heal.
And, of course, he goes and heals his daughter.
So he's saying how important it is to have this trust in God,
trust in our Lord, or something which we should have throughout our day and all of our activities,
this trust in God's providence, his providential care,
which rules and guides every single thing that happens in our day and in our life.
This loving, providential Father who is guiding us,
who is leading us,
who is loving care for us.
Things are not happening happen chance or with this indifference on the part of God,
but a loving providence and how this loving providence should instill in us this trust and faith in God,
trust and faith in God that he will guide us and bring good out of everything
and that he is going to help us in everything that we need and do.
And this kind of trust is what really nourishes our relationship with our loving providence.
We strengthen our relationship with the Father God
and really brings us intimately more close to God,
the more we trust in God,
the more deep our union and love for him is
and how important it is to foster that trust in God,
his trust in his loving providence and his mercy,
his kindness and his goodness.
And that trust really touches the heart of God.
And this lack of trust really hurts God, our lack of trust in him.
And a lack of trust in him really doesn't gain for us grace,
doesn't gain for us the merits that God wants for us.
So we need this trust, and it is this trust that touches the heart of God
and makes him want to do more and more for us and does do more and more for us.
So let's strengthen and enkindle and nurture our trust in God.
Let's strengthen and enkindle and nurture our trust in God.