Wednesday, October 23, 2019
THURSDAY, 29th Week in Ordinary Time
October 24, 2019 - THURSDAY, 29th Week in Ordinary Time
St. Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop and Religious Founder
Green.
Rom 6: 19 – 23 / Lk 12: 49 – 53
St. Anthony Mary Claret (1807 – 1870), a Spanish missionary from Catalonia and the Canary Islands, became Archbishop of Santiago, Cuba, and the founder of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians, 1849).
FROM THE 1ST READING: Rom 6: 20 – 23
When you were slaves of sin, you did not feel under the obligation of righteousness, but what were the fruits of those actions of which you are now ashamed? Such things bring death. Now, however, you have been freed from sin and serve God. You are bearing fruit and growing in holiness, and the result will be life everlasting. So, on one side is Sin: its reward, death; on the other side is God: he gives us, by grace, life everlasting in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
GOSPEL READING: Lk 12: 49 – 53
Jesus said, "I have come to bring fire upon the earth and how I wish it were already kindled; but I have a baptism to undergo and what anguish I feel until it is over!
"Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on, in one house five will be divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
REFLECTION
The Gospel reading tells us that Christ has come "to bring fire upon the earth." He has come to inflame us with love of God and love of neighbor. He has come to transform us so we would be men and women of God rather than men and women of the flesh and of the world. At the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, Simeon told his parents that Jesus will be "for the rise or fall of the multitudes of Israel. He shall stand as a sign of contradiction." (Lk 2: 34 – 35)
In the first reading Paul tells us that we are either for God and life or for sin and death.
There is no middle ground: we are either for or against God and his Christ. We lead our lives in sin and in this world or for God and his grace preparing treasure for heaven which will not rust.
In following Christ we may be at odds and in conflict with others, even our own family and close friends. Jesus tells us we should give priority to God and his kingdom above all others and above everything.
May we live in God's love and grace and spend our lives spreading his message of love and peace.
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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WEDNESDAY, 29th Week in Ordinary Time
St. John of Capistrano, Priest
Green.
Rom 6: 12 – 18 / Lk 12: 39 – 48
Born in Italy St John of Capistrano (1386 – 1456) was a Franciscan preacher and missionary in eastern Europe who joined the crusades against the Turks.
FROM THE 1ST READING: Rom 6: 12 – 14
Do not allow sin any control over your mortal being; do not submit yourselves to its evil inclinations, and do not give your members over to sin, as instruments to do evil. On the contrary, offer yourselves as persons returned from death to life, and let the members of your body be as holy instruments at the service of God. Sin will not lord it over you again, for you are not under the law, but under grace..
GOSPEL READING: Lk 12: 39 – 48
Jesus said, "Pay attention to this: If the master of the house had known at what time the thief would come, he would not have let his house be broken into.. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect."
Peter said, "Lord, did you tell this parable only for us, or for everyone?" And the Lord replied, "Imagine, then, the wise and faithful steward whom the master sets over his other servants to give them food rations at the proper time. Fortunate is this servant if his master on coming home finds him doing his work. Truly, I say to you, the master will put him in charge of all his property.
"But it may be that the steward thinks: 'My Lord delays in coming,' and he begins to abuse the men-servants and the servant girls, eating and drinking and getting drunk. Then the master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he doesn't know. He will discharge his servant and number him among the unreliable.
"The servant who knows his master's will, but did not prepare to do what his master wanted, will be punished with sound blows; but the one who did what deserved a punishment without knowing it shall receive fewer blows.. Much will be required of the one who has been given much, and more will be asked of the one entrusted with more."
REFLECTION
In the first reading Paul exhorts us to free ourselves from sin and live in God's grace.
In the Gospel reading Jesus tells us to be faithful stewards of God, making good use of the gifts and talents given to us. God, like the master in the parable, will demand an accounting from each one of us at the end of our lives: "Fortunate is this servant if his master on coming home finds him doing his work" and "the servant who knows his master's will, but did not prepare to do what his master wanted, will be punished with sound blows"; "he will discharge his servant and number him among the unreliable."
We who have been blessed by God with so much must show the best use of these gifts for ourselves and our neighbor, "Much will be required of the one who has been given much, and more will be asked of the one entrusted with more."
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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