Best of Barron 4 July 17

Tuesday, 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I MT 8:23-27 Bishop Barron writes: Out of the depths, I have cried to you, O Lord. Psalm 130 is "the prayer offered at the darkest times of life, when we feel utterly incapable of helping ourselves. "During the storm, Jesus' disciples cried out to the Lord in desperation: 'O Lord, we are drowning; don't you care?' Perhaps there are some people reading this right now who feel themselves in this precise situation.... "If that's you, then pray as the disciples did. Awaken someone who can help. Jesus sleeping in the midst of the storm" shows that God has supreme power "over even the darkest and most difficult trials that life throws at us."