We heard from Prophet Habakkuk in today’s liturgy. Habakkuk, a Jewish prophet, lived six centuries before Christ. It was a time which in its own way was really as bad as our own. In Judah there was widespread political crisis, corruption of morals, social injustice, contempt for the poor and so on. The situation was getting impossible and the people went to the prophet Habakkuk in despair telling him: ‘’consult the Lord for us. We want to know what we should do, because we cannot continue like this.’’ That same night Habakkuk prayed to God for his people with expectant faith and God’s response to the prophet is, ‘’nothing will happen for a while, there will not be any immediate change, but the people should not get discouraged for God will intervene at the proper time. We do find ourselves often in the same situation as the one of Israel: Political and moral issues and so on. Like Habakkuk, we wonder ‘why all this?, and for how long will it take...? The reply of God is always the same: ‘’keep on believing, do not abandon the way of justice! Maybe you now cannot understand the reasons for my tolerance, but be faithful all the same; one day you will see my intervention of salvation!’’ For, persistent Faith can make miracles!