DAILY- HOMILY

November 12, 2015 THURSDAY, 32ND Week in Ordinary Time

St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr          

Memorial, Red            

Wis 7:22b – 8: 1 / Lk 17:20 - 25

[St. Josaphat (1580 – 1623), a monk and the archeparch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, was killed by a mob of Orthodox Christians.]

Reading: Wis 7:25 - 8: 1

  Wisdom is a breath of the power of God, a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; nothing impure can enter her. She is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of God's action and an image of his goodness. She is but one, yet Wisdom can do all things and, herself unchanging, she renews all things. She enters holy souls, making them prophets and friends of God, for God loves only those who live with Wisdom.

     She is indeed more beautiful than the sun and surpasses all the constellations; she outrivals light, for light gives way to night, but evil cannot prevail against Wisdom. Wisdom displays her strength from one end of the earth to the other, ordering all things rightly.

Gospel: Lk 17:20 - 25    

     The Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was to come. He answered, "The kingdom of God is not like something you can observe and say of it: 'Look, here it is! There it is!' See, the kingdom of God is among you."

     And Jesus said to his disciples, "The time is at hand when you will long to see one of the glorious days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. Then people will tell you: 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go, do not follow them. As lightning flashes from one end of the sky to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this people.

Reflection:     

     In the Gospel reading the Pharisees ask Jesus about the coming of the Kingdom of God. Jesus replies that indeed the Kingdom of God was already at hand, though they do not see or refuse to see and recognnize it in the ministry of Jesus.

     Vatican Council II declares, "In the Old Testament the revelation of the Kingdom is often conveyed by means of metaphors. In the same way, the inner nature of the Church is now made known to using different images taken either from tending sheep or cultivating the land, from building, or even from family life and bethrothals, the images receive preparatory shaping in the books of the Prophets." (Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, 6)

     In the life of Jesus the Kingdom is definitively established in his passion, death and resurrection: "But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this people."

     The mystery of the Kingdom of God is that, while already present, its definitive fulfillment is still to come: "The Church, like a stranger in a foreign land, presses forward amid the persecutions of the world and the consolations of God, 'announcing the cross and death of the Lord until He comes.' " (Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, 8)

     In the first reading, Wisdom is praised as a special gift of God. Let us pray for the gift of Wisdom as we live and look forward to the coming of the Kingdom of God, "as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ."

WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

BIRTHDAY

     ALICE THE

     MATTHEW CHRISTIAN YU

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who need our prayers the most. 

Have a good day!

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