Art: John Everett Millais' "The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow" is almost as intriguing as Jesus' parable on which the image is based: A persistent widow unrelentingly demands justice ...

Our gospel reading today is yet another parable that our Lord Jesus Christ uses to teach his disciples and it comes from Luke 18:1-8… The Parable of the Persistent Widow.

Find today’s readings here. I guess you can’t actually stop me if you’ve heard this story before, but Luke’s parable of the persistent widow is one of my favorites, not only because she is ...

The parable of the widow and the judge grew a bit like Topsy, with three different applications: an initial interpretation, that it illustrates tireless prayer; a conclusion, ...

Surely you have a favorite parable from the Bible. Mine happens to be “The Widow’s Mite,” in which Christ saw the wealthy put their gifts in the Temple treasury, and then, pointing to a poor widow’s ...

The parable recounts how a dishonest, indifferent judge is swayed by the constant requests of a widow, who insistently pleads for justice. In the end, the judge concedes due to the widow's ...

Sunday, Oct. 1, is the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass Readings: Ezekiel 18:25-28, Psalms 25:4-9, Philippians 2:1-11 or 2:1-5, Matthew 21:28-32. In today’s Gospel, Jesus says something he has ...

It is the Parable of the Persistent Widow, which you can read in Luke 18:1-8. It's the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today's gospel reading is a lesson in perseverance and persistency.