Qualis est hic, quia venti et mare obœ́diunt ei?
Jesus, the tireless wide-awake God, "rising up" (Gospel) shows Himself to be their absolute Master!
Now this boat really represents the Church. Enemies today, as in the past, gloat over "our human frailty" (Prayer, Secret), tossed about by the winds of inhuman evil spirits and the waves of human passion. Yet, despite our indifference and others' persecution, the Church contains the Divine Presence, ever "rising up" from the tomb of its Good Friday "failures" to the triumph of a new Easter resurrection (Postcommunion).
With this picture before us of the "Divine" help when all hope of human help is lost, the Epistle counsels us to do our part to calm the storms by loving our neighbour and by not working any evil against him, either in private or in the social order.
Today is Feast of St. Martina V. M., named after the Roman God of War, Mars, martyred in Rome in the III century, after which the ancient temple of Mars was transformed into a church which bears the name of the Saint and contains her relics. Although not commemorated in the Mass today, under the newer rubrics, pray to the Saint for strength to face the evil which threatens to envelop us each day.