First Reading

Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes to the hills—
  from where will my help come?
 My help comes from the Lord,
  who made heaven and earth.

 He will not let your foot be moved;
  he who keeps you will not slumber.
 He who keeps Israel
  will neither slumber nor sleep.

 The Lord is your keeper;
  the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
 The sun shall not strike you by day
  nor the moon by night.

 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
  he will keep your life.
 The Lord will keep
  your going out and your coming in
  from this time on and forevermore.

The Gospel

Luke 18:1-8

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”