DAILY- HOMILY

05 October 2016        

Wednesday, 27th Week in Ordinary Time 

St. Mary Faustina Kowalska, Religious

Green.         

Gal 2:1- 2, 7 – 14 / Lk 11:1 – 4

From Poland, St. Mary Faustina Kowalska (1905 – 1938) had many visions and apparitions from Our Lord who requested promotion of devotion to the Divine Mercy.

From the 1st Reading: Gal 2:7 - 8

They recognized that I have been entrusted to give the Good News to the pagan nations, just as Peter has been entrusted to give it to the Jews.  In the same way that God made Peter the apostle of the Jews, he made me the apostle of the pagans.

Gospel Reading: Lk 11:1 – 4

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

And Jesus said to them, "When you pray, say this:

  Father, hallowed be your name,

  may your kingdom come,

  give us each day the kind of bread we need,

  and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive all who we wrong,

  and do not bring us to the test."

Reflection

In the Lord's Prayer, we ask for our daily bread, an affirmation of our dependence on God for all our basic needs. 

In the Bible as in most cultures and peoples, meals have been a very important part of life, like the Passover, the Last Supper, the banquet of the bridegroom and even from the beginning when God told Adam and Eve that they could "eat of every tree in the garden, but of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you will not east, for on the day you eat of it, you will die." (Gn 2: 16b – 17) 

According to Tim Chester (author of A Meal with Jesus), meals expressed who were the insiders and who were the outsiders. The way Jesus did his meals was radically subversive as he dined with sinners and tax collectors. His meals were amazing expressions of the Good News. 

The early Church, with prayer, corrected Peter's initial refusal to eat with Gentiles. For meals are a central and powerful expression of community.  However, they do not make community. It is the Gospel that does. It is the Gospel that makes communities work.

With whom have we dined lately? Was it an expression of love of Jesus and of the people sharing our meal? How can we make our meals an expression of the Good News like Jesus did?

WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

IN MEMORIAM (+)

     Maria Chua Muy

     Paquito Campos

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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