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The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him but were unable to join him because of the crowd. He was told, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they wish to see you." He said to them in reply, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it."
Come after me, says the Lord, and I will make you fishers of men.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 5:1-11 today's readings).
For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him and all those with him, and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men."
As today's Gospel begins, Jesus is standing by the shore speaking to the crowds who press in on him as they hear him teach. Seeing that Simon Peter and his partners James and John disembark, Jesus asks Peter to help him by moving out a short distance from the shore to teach the crowds. When he is done speaking, Jesus tells Simon Peter and the others: "Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch." After fishing all night and catching nothing, Peter questions Jesus but nonetheless does as he commands. What begins as Peter lends the use of his boat to Jesus ends in a catch of fish that nearly sinks both boats. Peter and the others gave a little to Jesus and find God's boundless generosity. Even more, Jesus gives Simon Peter, James, and John a purpose in following him that exceeds anything they could have accomplished in their professional life. And they abandon themselves to Christ with humility and trust. Luke tells us, "When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him."
God, help instill in me the trust that Peter, James, and John have in following Jesus to be his disciples. Peter doesn't ask Jesus to lay out a step-by-step plan before following him but instead recognizes his dependence on Jesus, your Son. The fisherman Simon Peter understood that his livelihood depended on knowledge and wisdom but that there was no guarantee of success. Peter fell to his knees before Jesus, repentant. He saw knowledge and wisdom itself in the person of Jesus and responded to the call that Saint Paul speaks of in the first reading: "that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord." Give me the grace, Lord, to listen out for you in trust and follow where you lead.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
I, like a green olive tree in the house of God, Trust in the mercy of God forever and ever. I trust in the mercy of God for ever.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 4:38-44) today's readings).
At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, "To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent."
The day before the crowds go looking for Jesus, he cured Simon's mother-in-law and later cured sick people with various diseases. Jesus exorcized demons from many people, and the demons recognized who Jesus was, calling him the Son of God. Word must have spread quickly for the crowds to go looking for Jesus in a deserted place. In his actions, Jesus proclaims the Gospel and makes clear his purpose as the Son of God. The Gospel acclamation also spells out his purpose: "The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives."
God, deepen my understanding for the work your Son accomplished through his earthly mission and for his example of proclaiming the Gospel without counting the cost. "I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God," he said, "because for this purpose I have been sent." Give me the grace today and every day to understand the purpose you have for me as I give witness to Christ through my words and actions. I can't do this through my own will but through my hope and trust in your continuous outpouring of grace. "I trust in the mercy of God for ever." You are truly present in the Eucharist, Lord; let me come to you there.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Take my yoke upon you, says the Lord, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 14:1, 7-14) today's readings).
Jesus told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, 'Give your place to this man,' and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place."
Jesus says this to guests present at a banquet of one of the leading Pharisees—an incisive teaching for all present who observe and hear him. Jesus witnesses the guests taking places of honor at the table and shares a parable with them about humility and the position you perceive yourself to hold. It ends with a consequence that is often disregarded: "For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted." In the first reading, Sirach speaks similar words to a beloved hearer: "My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God." Jesus invites us to take up the yoke of humility, to learn from him in being humble of heart.
God, help me today to accept the invitation of Jesus to be meek and humble. At the same time, give me the opportunity today to be a means of your love to someone who may not be able to respond in kind. "Blessed indeed will you be, Jesus says, "because of their inability to repay you." Pour out generously the gifts of understanding and wisdom when I struggle or resist finding the purpose in the yoke Jesus invites me to take up. Seeing and receiving it is more than I can do on my own, and I depend on you to guide me. God, come to my assistance; Lord, make haste to help me!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to rule the earth; He will rule the world with justice and the peoples with equity. The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 25:14-30) today's readings).
Jesus told his disciples this parable: "A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one–to each according to his ability. Then he went away."
In the parable of the talents, a master gives his three servants varying amounts of money (talents) to manage while he is away. Two of them generate a return on their investment of the talents; one of them does not. Jesus is not sharing investment advice in this parable but instead teaches the disciples to use the gifts God gave them faithfully so that they come at the end of their earthly life to full participation in the kingdom. Just as the master is happy to see a return on the talents from two of the servants, God is pleased to see the unique gifts he bestows on us used to their fullness. As good stewards of God's gifts, we see cumulative growth of them over time, so that Jesus concludes the parable, saying, "For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."
Father in heaven, you are the giver of all good gifts. Give me the grace to use the gifts and talents you give me to their fullest. Make clear to me today what those gifts are and how I can use them to serve you. For the sake of your glory, I want to hear and do your will with full confidence in this life and one day enter into eternal life, hearing you say, "Well done, my good and faithful servant."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Light dawns for the just; and gladness, for the upright of heart. Be glad in the LORD, you just, and give thanks to his holy name. Rejoice in the Lord, you just!
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 6:17-29) today's readings).
Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and kept him in custody. When he heard him speak he was very much perplexed, yet he liked to listen to him.
Mark recounts the beheading of John the Baptist at the command of King Herod. Herod is "deeply distressed" when Herodias's daughter asks for John's head to be brought in on a platter. Nonetheless, Herod holds to the oaths he made and orders the executioner to murder John. Yet, Mark also tells us that Herod recognized John as a "righteous and holy man." He says this of Herod's relationship with John: "When he heard him speak he was very much perplexed, yet he liked to listen to him." Something drew Herod to John, a faithful prophet who spoke the word of God. As John spoke the word, a light drew him toward it before turning away from it. Following it, Herod would have found out this: "Light dawns for the just; and gladness, for the upright of heart."
God, strengthen in me the desire to hear and respond with gladness of to your word. Herod freely chose to turn away from you as he exercised free will. Give me the grace to recognize your gift of free will, and help me be prudent in the opportunities you present so that I can use it. John the Baptist was martyred because he chose to witness to the truth. Guide me along the way, Lord, as I seek to be a witness to your truth. Saint John the Baptist, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Jesus said to his disciples: "Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come."
If I take the wings of the dawn, if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea, Even there your hand shall guide me, and your right hand hold me fast. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 23:27-32, today's readings).
Jesus said, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing."
Jesus condemns the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy; they appear beautiful on the outside and in adorning the memorials of the righteous, whom their ancestors killed. Yet, on the inside they are filled with "dead men's bones and every kind of filth" as they mask the inner decay of immorality and sin. As Saint Paul shares the Gospel in the first reading, he conveys the spirit of love that the Father continuously pours out on us, encouraging and insisting that those who follow Christ "walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into his Kingdom of glory."
God, as Saint Paul gives thanks unceasingly in sharing and receiving your word—not the word of men but the word of God—I ask for the grace to do the same. The Gospel acclamation describes the divine outcome of nurturing and keeping the word immanent, of persisting in prayer as Saint Monica did: "Whoever keeps the word of Christ, the love of God is truly perfected in him." The words of Christ to the Pharisees—"inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing"—penetrate deep within to help me recognize when I lose sight of the word and turn away from you. Yet, Lord, in your goodness, even there you attend to me, and the psalmist's prayer is mine as I say: "Even there your hand shall guide me, and your right hand hold me fast." Saint Monica, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
O LORD, you have probed me and you know me; you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. My journeys and my rest you scrutinize, with all my ways you are familiar. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 23:23-26, today's readings).
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.”
Jesus addresses the scribes and Pharisees for taking advantage of their position to distort Mosaic law for self-serving purposes. In doing this, they also bring others into this dysfunction by setting an example. Jesus affirms this by calling them guides, but they are blind guides, neglecting more meaningful aspects of the law such as "judgment and mercy and fidelity." By contrast, in the first reading, Saint Paul describes the example the apostles set as they shared the Gospel with the people of Philippi: "Rather, we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother cares for her children. With such affection for you, we were determined to share with you not only the Gospel of God, but our very selves as well, so dearly beloved had you become to us." How does Christ call us to share "our very selves" in his mission of mercy?
God, you call me continuously to love as you love and to be merciful as you are merciful. Jesus commands the Pharisees to be attentive to the weightier things of the law: judgment and fidelity and mercy. You alone, Lord, are perfectly just and merciful. Give me the grace to work on this today as I strive to remain faithful to your will. The opportunity may not come again, or I may not recognize it at another time. Make clear to me today how you work with me in the way of interior sanctification, in the way of cleansing the inside of the cup so that the outside may also be clean.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Sing to the LORD a new song of praise in the assembly of the faithful. Let Israel be glad in their maker, let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. The Lord takes delight in his people.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 23:13-22, today’s readings).
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves.”
Out of frustration but also out of love for the Father and those who hear him, Jesus criticizes the scribes and Pharisees for obstructing themselves and others from the path to God. “You do not enter [the Kingdom of heaven] yourselves,” Jesus says, “nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter.” Jesus points out that these “blind guides” swear by the gold of the temple and the gift on the altar and believe that makes them obligated—all while neglecting to recognize what makes the temple and altar that make these things sacred. Jesus directs the gaze of the scribes and Pharisees beyond the constricting rituals that produce children of Gehenna to the perfect love and mercy of the Father enthroned in heaven and incarnate in his Son.
Father in heaven, redirect my gaze to you when I get caught up in hierarchies and orders of things that end up only keeping me from you. Let me hear the invitation to stay close to your Son, as I hear in the Gospel acclamation: “My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.” As Jesus says, one is not obligated to or by the gold of the temple or the gift on the altar but by you who make all that is sacred. Give me the grace, Lord, to look to you and you alone and not what surrounds you, to go to you where I find you truly present—body and blood, soul and divinity—in the Eucharist.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
I am the way, the truth and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father, except through me.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 13:22-30, today's readings).
"And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."
As Jesus passes through towns and villages, someone asks him, "Lord, will only a few people be saved?" He answers them, "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough." Jesus tells a parable where people knock on the door of the master's house and say to him, "Lord, open the door for us." He will say to them, Jesus tells the people, "I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!" If we are not strong enough, and we are not strong enough, Jesus supplies our strength even as he disciplines through trials. As Saint Paul says, "All discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it."
Father in heaven, even as I live in the midst of your discipline, I struggle to understand how and why it is necessary. Give me the grace to accept that any discipline I experience is a means of sanctifying me for the sake of your glory. When I discern your will and yet resist carrying it out, strengthen me to move forward not with earthly sight but with the sight of faith in your love and mercy. "I am the way, the truth and the life, says the Lord," the Gospel acclamation says, "no one comes to the Father, except through me." Make straight my path, Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD, his God, Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them. Praise the Lord, my soul!
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 22:34-40, today's readings).
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
The scholar who approaches Jesus does not ask out of a genuine desire but seeks to trap Jesus. Matthew tells us that the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, so the scholar goes to Jesus from a place of competitiveness and pride. Jesus answers with the Shema, a Jewish declaration of faith that is recited in the morning and evening. By responding this way, Jesus affirms the covenant between God and the Jewish people and their devotion to him. Jesus adds the commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself, and the two commandments are inseparable. In his genuine response to the scholar's test, Jesus is demonstrating just that: a loving relationship with God and with his neighbor.
Father in heaven, let me take to heart today's Gospel. Help me see what Jesus models as he responds to the scholar's insincerity. He doesn't criticize him for attempting to trick him but instead gives him what he asks for and adds even more. As I meet a similar tone in others, give me the grace to respond to them in the same way—sincerely and generously—meeting them where they are and bringing your grace to the interaction. Help me also, Lord, recognize when I am insincere with you and with others. "Teach me your paths, my God, guide me in your truth." Mary, Queen assumed into heaven, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
"The servants went out into the streets
and gathered all they found, bad and good alike,
and the hall was filled with guests.
But when the king came in to meet the guests
he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment.
He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it
that you came in here without a wedding garment?’
But he was reduced to silence.
Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet,
and cast him into the darkness outside,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’
Many are invited, but few are chosen.”
"'What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?' Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."
I will hear what God proclaims; the LORD—for he proclaims peace to his people, and to his faithful ones, and to those who put in him their hope. The Lord speaks of peace to his people.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 19:23-30, today's readings).
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For men this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you. What will there be for us?”
On hearing that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of God, the disciples ask Jesus this question. Peter recognizes the gravity of discipleship and asks what that will lead to for them. Jesus tells him that they will see the Son of Man seated on his throne of glory and that they will sit on twelve thrones as judges of Israel. Jesus says of everyone who has given up material possessions of this world "will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life." And he warns them, "But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.” What single possession or all possessions combined is worth more than the inheritance of eternal life as adopted sons and daughters of the Father?
God, help me call to mind throughout the day the response of Jesus when the disciples ask him who can be saved. He simply says, For men this is impossible, but for God all things are possible." With you, Lord, all things are possible. The difficulty of giving up possessions or giving up anything that prevents me from entering your kingdom is impossible for me but possible for you. Everyone, Jesus says, who has given up worldly possessions for the sake of his name, will inherit eternal life. The first will be last, and the last will be first. If Jesus makes this great good possible, then smaller gifts in this life that lead to him, surely will be given even before we ask. Give me the grace, Lord, to understand the promise of eternal life made possible through Jesus so that by his poverty I might become rich.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The LORD heard my cry. He drew me out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud of the swamp; he set my feet upon a crag; he made firm my steps. Lord, come to my aid!
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 12:49-53, today's readings).
Jesus said to his disciples: "I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division."
Jesus tells the disciples that he comes to bring fire to the earth through his baptism of purification. He makes clear that his message will lead to division, even among families, as some accept it but others reject it. Similarly, in the first reading, the prophet Jeremiah faces opposition as he proclaims the truth about Jerusalem's coming destruction. He is put in prison by those who view his message as demoralizing. Both readings reveal the conflict that arises from the truth. There are real challenges and divisions that believers encounter when standing up for God's word, but there is also steadfast hope for deliverance amid conflict and adversity.
God, what is the unity and hope you bring to believers even as they experience division and trial? Let the psalmist's prayer be mine. You come to the aid of those who wait patiently for you and you stoop toward them to hear and deliver them. "And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. Many shall look on in awe and trust in the LORD." You draw me out of all that would mire me and keep me from you, setting my feet on solid ground. Give me the grace, Lord, to endure opposition and adversity as I listen for your voice and persevere in running the race that lies before me. Lord, come to my aid!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The queen takes her place at your right hand in gold of Ophir. The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”
Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, says, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” She cries out in a loud voice before Mary and before God as a prophet might cry out or as one so full of conviction that it was impossible not to cry out. Elizabeth is divinely inspired to express what has become contained in the Hail Mary, prayed countless billions of times generation after generation. And what did she say that resounds over the millennia? “Blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Because Elizabeth was divinely inspired to say these words as was Mary in proclaiming the Magnificat, the depth and breadth of what they express continue to invite us into the beauty and mystery of the incarnation, the resurrection of Jesus, and Mary's assumption, body and soul, into heaven.
God, thank you for what the Gospel reveals about Mary and Elizabeth’s greeting to each other. They each express a depth of faith that goes beyond what is knowable in the natural world. Elizabeth proclaimed Mary as the Mother of God before Jesus’ birth, and Mary praised God for remembering his promise of mercy. God, help me recognize Mary’s role as an instrument of mercy, both in life and after her assumption. She proclaimed the greatness of the Lord and his holy name: “for he has remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made to our fathers.” Mary, Queen of Heaven, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
"So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart."
"Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
The disciples approached Jesus and said, "Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?" He called a child over, placed it in their midst, and said, "Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me."
Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us who have put our hope in you. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 12:32-48, today's readings).
"Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”
These words of Jesus spoken to the disciples follow his teaching on discipleship. Jesus tells the parable of the servant awaiting the master's return from a wedding. "Blessed are those servants," Jesus says, "whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. . . . for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Peter asks if the parable is meant only for them or for everyone, and Jesus answers by sharing another parable. This one focuses on a master who goes away and puts a steward in charge of the distribution of food at the proper time. Jesus speaks to the "little flock"—that's all of us—when he tells his stewards to store up an inexhaustible treasure in heaven. "For where your treasure is," he says, "there also will your heart be."
God, help me hear the reassuring voice of Jesus today and throughout the days ahead. “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom." What are the belongings Jesus asks me to sell? The material things I possess are more than I need—more clothing, food, money. Even more, Lord, what belongings am I attached to that in some way prevent me from storing up treasures in heaven? Give me the grace, Lord, to conform my will to yours more and more, with a heart that treasures what you treasure, so that when the unexpected knock comes at the door, I am ready to open immediately at your arrival.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
I love you, O LORD, my strength, O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. I love you, Lord, my strength.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 17:14-20, today's readings).
Jesus said in reply, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring the boy here to me." Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour the boy was cured.
The father who brings his son to Jesus has watched the son suffer terribly, falling into fire and often into water. In his anguish, he brings him to the disciples, who try to cure the boy but fail. When the boy is brought to Jesus, he rebukes the demon, who comes out of him immediately, and the disciples ask, "Why could we not drive it out?" Along with chastising them, Jesus encourages the disciples. Faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains. "Nothing," Jesus says, "will be impossible for you." What kind of faith the father must have had to bring his son first to the disciples and then to Jesus. Through his perseverance, the father received his son back, restored and whole, from the arms of the Good Shepherd.
God, help me have faith at all times, whether I succeed or fail to see its effects. Just as the father put all of his trust in Jesus, give me the grace to do the same even during trials and suffering. In the first reading, Moses says to the people: "The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength." With the little faith I have, Lord, help deepen my understanding of the words of Jesus: "Nothing will be impossible for you."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
I remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I remember your wonders of old. And I meditate on your works; your exploits I ponder. I remember the deeds of the Lord.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 16:24-28, today's readings).
Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
Jesus makes clear what is at stake in following him: losing one's life in trying to save it and saving one's life in losing it for his sake. Yet, the challenge to take up one's cross is resisted and denied. Jesus goes on to describe it in terms of material gain. What purpose is there in gaining the whole world at the cost of forfeiting life? We will be repaid, as Jesus says, according to our conduct. Whatever our response, the call is unmistakable: "Follow me."
God, there are moments when it is difficult to accept your will or to believe that what is made quite clear is your will. In these instances, help me learn to trust in your will even when I can't see where it leads. Lord, give me the understanding to know your will and, with courage, pick up my cross and follow you. Give me perseverance when I am tempted to turn away, and strengthen my faith in the goodness and mercy of your plan for me. Saint Dominic, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
"My people heard not my voice, and Israel obeyed me not; So I gave them up to the hardness of their hearts; they walked according to their own counsels." Sing with joy to God our help.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 14:13-21, today's readings).
Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over–twelve wicker baskets full.
Jesus has just heard of the death of John the Baptist. From the same chapter of Matthew's Gospel, we see Jesus respond to the new's that John's disciples shared with him. Matthew tells us that Jesus withdraws to a deserted place by himself by boat but the crowds soon find out about this and go by foot to meet him as he disembarks. Jesus' response to this is not at all what one might imagine. On hearing devastating news about his cousin John, withdrawing and insisting on time alone would be understood, even expected. Yet, Jesus sees the crowd and Matthew says that "his heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured their sick." When the disciples tell Jesus there is not enough food for the crowds and that they should go buy some, Jesus tells them: "There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves." By saying this, Jesus teaches them to provide for others as life-giving bearers of the word and also to give them a greater opportunity to trust completely in him, the true food of the Word made flesh.
Father in heaven, give me the true food I need today to sustain me in your compassion even as I look to the needs of others, as Jesus said, to give them some food myself. For the times today when I am unaware that you are present, orient me to you again so that I walk in your ways. Just as the crowds went on foot to meet Jesus at the other shore, I want to move with confidence throughout the day to know firsthand your ever-present healing and compassion. And give me the grace to be a means of that to others. Saint John Vianney, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands! If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 12:13-21, today's readings).
Then Jesus told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’ And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones.'"
Jesus shares a parable with the crowd after someone tells Jesus to demand that his brother share his inheritance with him. What the inheritance is, we don't know. But Jesus knows the man's heart and warns the crowd to guard against greed and attachment to possessions. The man in the parable builds larger barns and celebrates having, as he says, "so many good things stored up for many years." This also is vanity, Qoheleth would say, that his moment in the sun would not last. As Jesus finish the parable, we hear God say to the man: "You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?" Jesus concludes the parable by teaching us to store up treasure not for ourselves but to labor on earth to become "rich in what matters to God."
God, help me today and every day of my life do the work that Jesus lays out in storing up treasure in heaven. Help me recall the way Saint Paul puts it: dying to this life and finding our lives hidden with Christ in God naturally follows when the focus is on what is above and not what is on earth. Give me the grace, Lord, to live a life that is rich in faith and generosity in the divine inheritance I have in the hope of the resurrection to eternal life.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
There shall be no strange god among you nor shall you worship any alien god. I, the LORD, am your God who led you forth from the land of Egypt. Sing with joy to God our help.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 13:54-58, today's readings).
But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house." And he did not work many mighty deeds there because of their lack of faith.
The psalm for today presents the words of the Lord to the Israelites. "There shall be no strange god among you. . . ." In the Gospel, Jesus is in his hometown of Nazareth among neighbors and family friends, when they say of him: "Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds? Is he not the carpenter's son?" They name Mary, and his brothers and sisters, family members, and say out of bewilderment. "Where did this man get all this." Among his own townspeople, Jesus would have been no stranger, yet they rejected him despite witnessing his words and miraculous works. The greater truth that some would come to believe is that Jesus was no strange god among them but the Son of the Most High.
Father in heaven, I know that Jesus is present in many ways, foremost in the real presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Help me see Jesus also present in the faces of the people I encounter today and in their words and actions. Those closest who bear Christ and manifest his presence are often the ones most taken for granted. Give me the grace, Lord, to pause and see in them, as Saint Paul said, "whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious." Let me consider how Christ is in my midst, right her in my native place. Saint Alphonsus Liguori, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Blessed they who dwell in your house! continually they praise you. Blessed the men whose strength you are! They go from strength to strength. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord, mighty God!
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 13:47-53, today’s readings).
Jesus said to the disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age.”
Jesus makes a comparison of the kingdom of heaven that the disciples would have been intimately familiar with. The bad catch that is thrown away would have particular meaning to them as well as the good, which they put into buckets. Jesus shares this parable to bring to mind the end of the age, the final judgment. To discern good and bad in relation to the end of the age is to know God’s will and move forward with it in the present moment, just as the Israelites moved forward whenever the cloud of the LORD’s glory rose among them on their journey in the desert. “But if the cloud did not lift,” we hear in Exodus, “they would not go forward; only when it lifted did they go forward.” In his Word and in the glory of his resurrection, Jesus is with us as we discern through prayer and move throughout the day.
God, help me take to heart the parables as they apply to today’s events. Open my eyes to the coexistence of good and evil in the world and their separation in the final judgment. To take from the parables what Jesus says to me as a follower is to trust in his every word. As the Israelites watched for the cloud to rise before the day’s journey, I want to see your glory made manifest as I give witness to your kingdom through my life. “Blessed the men whose strength you are!” the psalmist sings. “They go from strength to strength.” Strengthen my desire, Lord, to make myself a dwelling that calls attention to your glory. Saint Ignatius of Loyola, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Extol the LORD, our God, and worship at his footstool; holy is he! Holy is the Lord our God.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 13:44-46, today's readings).
Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it."
The two short parables Jesus shares with the disciples communicate the nature of the kingdom of heaven and reveal its effect on the person who finds it. Jesus mentions twice that it is found and twice he says that the person sells all he has in order to buy it. To the one who finds it, the kingdom of heaven is the treasure that renders all else worthless; it is the one investment that yields joy in this life and unending security in heaven. The kingdom of heaven is right now and yet to be; it is far above on God's holy mountain and in the deepest recesses of our hearts.
God, in the parables of the buried treasure and the pearl of great price, I see Jesus express two types of encounters with the kingdom of heaven. A treasure might be stumbled upon or found after years of searching; the pearl is found after a lifetime of learning the worth of other pearls. By your grace, Lord, the kingdom of heaven is pure gift to the one who hopes in you or actively seeks you out. And what you have to give, you have made known generously through your Son. Throughout the day, help me call to mind the Gospel acclamation with joy: "I call you my friends, says the Lord, for I have made known to you all that the Father has told me."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The LORD secures justice and the rights of all the oppressed. He has made known his ways to Moses, and his deeds to the children of Israel. The Lord is kind and merciful.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (Jn 11:19-27, today's readings).
Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.”
The dialogue between Jesus and Martha deepens as Jesus tells Martha that her brother will rise. Martha shows confidence in the resurrection, saying, "I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day." Jesus takes Martha's confidence in him further when he asks her if she believes in him. “I am the resurrection and the life," Jesus tells her. "Whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die." Martha's profession of faith is an example for all of confidence in God's mercy. She says, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” Jesus, identifying himself as the resurrection and the life, refers to the ultimate victory over sin and death in his coming resurrection.
God, help me trust in your mercy. As I consider the example of Martha's faith in Christ, the resurrection and the life, grant me the opportunity today to express confidence in you as Martha did when she said, "But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” Let me come to share more and more in that same confidence Martha expresses in the hope of the resurrection. Martha professed her faith by saying that Christ is "the one who is coming into the world.” Teach me, Lord, to realize you are present in every moment of the day even as you prepare me for the life of the world to come.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Our fathers made a calf in Horeb and adored a molten image; They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bullock. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 13:31-35, today's readings).
Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.”
Jesus speaks to the crowd in parables about the kingdom of heaven to fulfill what has been said through the prophets. Jesus says, quoting Psalm 78, "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world." What is hidden in plain sight, Jesus reveals to the people through parables that point to the mystery of God's kingdom: the smallest of seeds grows into a large dwelling for birds; a small measure of yeast leavens an entire basket of wheat flour. In the parables, Jesus relates real-world glimpses to reveal the spiritual reality of the kingdom of heaven. Here, we can rest in its branches and grow with Christ to one day see its fulfillment.
God, help me trust that the smallest of seeds that grows to its utmost under your care is to abandon my will to yours. The kingdom of heaven, already here and yet to be, is your gift to receive, where what you have revealed from the beginning of time is brought into sight through childlike faith. Matthew says that Jesus spoke to the disciples only in parables. Give me the grace to understand that the mystery of the kingdom is contained in the real presence of the Eucharist as I take it in and let it grow and become more a manifestation of Christ every time I receive it.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 11:1-13, today's readings).
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." He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test."
After Jesus teaches the disciples the Lord's Prayer, he shares a parable about a man who goes to a friend at midnight to ask for bread to feed a guest staying at his house while on a journey. The friend eventually gives him the bread although he is reluctant at first. By his persistence, the visitor receives the bread he asks for. Likewise, in another parable, Jesus makes clear that if flawed human parents know how to give good gifts to their children, how much more so does God. "If you then, who are wicked," Jesus says, "know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" Jesus teaches the disciples more than they ask for: he points the way to his Father in a Spirit of adoption, the one to whom we cry, Abba, Father.
Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Help me be grateful that your will be done and that I have the gift of freely choosing it. Let the persistent cry of the friend in the parable be my cry as well. If not because of friendship with you, Lord, then out of my persistence you never tire of hearing and answering me. Jesus says, "Ask and you will receive. . . . For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds." Give me the grace to call to mind throughout the day that I am the son in the parable who asks his father for a fish. Father in heaven, you are the giver of all good gifts. From the responsorial psalm, let me remember this with complete trust: "Your right hand saves me. The LORD will complete what he has done for me."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Offer to God praise as your sacrifice and fulfill your vows to the Most High; Then call upon me in time of distress; I will rescue you, and you shall glorify me. Offer to God a sacrifice of praise.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 13:24-30, today's readings).
"He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Jesus speaks to the crowds in a parable about a sower who sows good seed. The seed sprouts and grows, but an enemy of the sower comes at night to sow weeds throughout the wheat. When the slaves of the sower ask if they should pull up the weeds, he tells them to let the wheat and the weeds grow together and at the harvest separate them. They will then gather the wheat into the barn, but the weeds they will tie up and burn. At the harvest, the final judgment, Jesus will come to separate the weeds from the wheat. The Gospel acclamation reminds us to receive the word of God and realize the kingdom of heaven now and eternally for the life of the world to come: "Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls."
Father in heaven, help me today see the the kingdom of heaven already here and yet to be. Like a planted seed, the word has in it challenges to life along with the potential for life brought to fulfillment at the time of harvest. Give me the grace to live the present moment with enthusiasm and in hope of the fulfillment of the word in the eternal kingdom yet to be. In a world where good and evil coexist, help me, Lord, hold onto the hope of the ultimate triumph of your kingdom in its fullness through Jesus Christ, your Son. Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Although they go forth weeping, carrying the seed to be sown, They shall come back rejoicing, carrying their sheaves. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 20:20-28, today's readings).
"Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
The mother of James and John comes to Jesus and asks that her two sons be granted authority to sit at his side in his kingdom. Jesus questions them, knowing they are unaware of what this means. "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?" They said to him, "We can." And then Jesus tells them that it is not his to give but for the ones for whom the Father has prepared. To be at the right hand of Jesus in his kingdom is to serve and give one's life, to die to this life so to rise to new life through Christ. As Saint Paul says in the first reading: "For we who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh." So out of love, Jesus asks all of us: "Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?"
God, help me understand that true greatness does not mean success in the way the world defines it. The mother of James and John asked that Jesus command that they sit at his right and left in the kingdom. To command in that way, as Jesus said, is to "lord it over them, and the great ones make their authority over them felt." But it would not be this way, Jesus said, among them. Lord, give me the grace every day to serve others and "carry about in the body the dying of Jesus" but especially when in a position of authority to bring Christ's presence to others. Give me the opportunity today to do just that: to die to self to let Christ be manifested in me to others. Saint James, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever; And blessed is your holy and glorious name, praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages. Glory and praise for ever!
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 13:10-17, today's readings).
"But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
The disciples ask Jesus why he speaks to the crowds in parables. He responds by telling them, "This is why I speak to them in parables, because they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand." Jesus goes on to quote Isaiah, to show that the people who hear but do not understand fulfill his prophecy. In his compassion, Jesus fulfills Isaiah's prophecy as the one who heals them as they "see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts." Blessed are our eyes, Lord, when we see you and our ears when we hear you.
God, help me see, hear, and understand your will. As much as I try, I am afraid that I don't see and hear and understand you well enough and often enough to comprehend it. You said to Moses, "I am coming to you in a dense cloud so that the people may always have faith in you also." Give me the grace to trust in the work you do in my life and through me so that I can be a witness to your compassion to others. Saint Charbel, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
They tempted God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved. Yes, they spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the desert?” The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 13:1-98, today's readings).
"Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it. But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold. Whoever has ears ought to hear.”
The Gospel acclamation spells out the parable that Jesus shares with the crowd: "The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower; all who come to him will live for ever." Christ, the sower, walks continuously among the soil of our souls, sowing the word of God. He walks among thorns, among our well-worn paths, among the rocky ground of hardened hearts where scorching heat withers roots. But some seed falls on rich soil, and from that the word of God produces more abundant fruit than we can possibly make grow by our own doing. God loved us first and, as he did for the Israelites, rains down bread from heaven "so that you may know that I, the LORD, am your God.”
God, help me appreciate the parable Jesus shares with the crowd from a boat, an ancient Christian symbol for the Church. The last words of the parable give me hope, Lord, that your word will find a spot of rich soil softened by your gift of love. "But some seed fell on rich soil" sounds like an epilogue to a dark story that ends in hope, where lush vegetation begins to spring up and spread in a scorched and lifeless desert. Move my heart, Lord, to hear what my ears ought to hear as my soul trusts in you and the hundredfold fruits of your Spirit. Saint Bridget, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The LORD is a warrior, LORD is his name! Pharaoh's chariots and army he hurled into the sea; the elite of his officers were submerged in the Red Sea. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 12:38-42, today's readings).
"Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and there is something greater than Jonah here."
Jesus responds to the Pharisees who are seeking a sign by saying that "an evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign." The ultimate word of the Father, Jesus, tells them that no sign will be given to the people because he stands before them as the one whom all the signs point to. And then Jesus draws on the story of Jonah to give them a sign: just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale, so will Jesus be at his burial, resurrection, and second coming. The people of Nineveh, Jesus says, will rise in judgment against this generation because they responded to Jonah's message in faith. The greater message Jesus brings is an invitation to genuine repentance and faith.
God, help me be aware of when I go looking for unmistakable signs that you are at work in my life. The quest to piece together occurrences into what appears to be a meaningful expression is to look for fulfillment of your plans. Sometimes events confirm that but at other times the signs point to an outcome that could not have been predicted. Strengthen my faith, Lord, to move forward today and every day in confidence that your will is actively guiding me as I seek to understand it and respond to it. The Gospel acclamation is a gentle reminder that I need not go far to find that Christ is present: "If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts." Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
One who walks blamelessly and does justice; who thinks the truth in his heart and slanders not with his tongue. He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 10:38-42, today's readings).
Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."
Jesus visits the home of Martha and Mary. Martha welcomes him and is busy with preparing things and serving, while Mary simply sits at Jesus' feet, listening to him teach. Martha frustration becomes clear when she says to Jesus, "Lord, do you not care" and asks him to tell Mary to help her. Jesus gently responds, addressing Martha's anxiety and worry. At the same time, he gestures to Mary, who has chosen "the better part," focusing on his words—something that will not be taken away from her.
God, in the events of the day, help me see Jesus present with Martha and Mary. Each of them lovingly serves Jesus, but the better part is a calling Mary responds to that he always invites us to take up. If there were no Marthas in the world, I would lack the example of service and practical expression of love. If there were no Marys, I would lose sight of the vitality of spiritual depth and contemplation. In my own life, give me the grace to develop each part—love in service and love in contemplative listening. Help me today choose the better part as you make your presence known. Be with me, Lord.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever; Who remembered us in our abjection, for his mercy endures forever; And freed us from our foes, for his mercy endures forever. His mercy endures forever.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 12:14-21, today's readings).
The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from that place. Many people followed him, and he cured them all, but he warned them not to make him known.
In today's Gospel, Jesus withdraws from the Pharisees who seek to kill him. In the first reading from Exodus, we hear how the Israelites flee from Egypt and slavery under Pharaoh to the desert. Under the scrutiny of the Pharisees, Jesus answers their questions about what is lawful to do on the sabbath. The disciples pick the heads of grain on the sabbath, and Jesus cures a man with a withered hand on the sabbath. So Jesus flees from them because they seek to kill him, and it is not yet his time. In flight from them, Jesus continues to do what he has been doing in his earthly mission: teaching, healing, fulfilling all of the Old Testament prophecies, and establishing his Church.
God, help me consider the works Jesus did on earth to prepare all who hear and follow him for eternal life. I read in the Gospel acclamation: "God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation." Just as Jesus understood and accomplished your will, strengthen me to do the same. As Jesus responded to the Pharisees by withdrawing from them, I have by this the example that doing your will sometimes means retreating from hostility to continue to serve you elsewhere. Give me, Lord, a heart able to discern your will, aware that at all times through Christ you entrust to me your message of reconciliation. Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
How shall I make a return to the LORD for all the good he has done for me? The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 12:1-8, today’s readings).
“I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”
The Pharisees criticize the disciples for picking the heads of grain on the sabbath and then eating them. Jesus tells the Pharisees about the time when David and his companions ate the consecrated bread to show that human need can take precedence over Mosaic law. With his authority and the new covenant he brings as the Lord of the sabbath, Jesus makes clear to the Pharisees that he is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets. The mercy of God is something greater than the temple.
God, help me learn what Jesus desired that the Pharisees should know in his call for mercy over sacrifice. You know my every need and would not withhold from me what you freely give. The psalmist sings, “I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds.” Your gift of freedom is an innate gift; through obedience to your will, Jesus shows the way to experience it in its fullness. Father in heaven, guide me in the way of your Son.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Give thanks to the LORD, invoke his name; make known among the nations his deeds. Recall the wondrous deeds that he has wrought, his portents, and the judgments he has uttered. The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 11:28-30, today's readings).
Jesus said: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."
Jesus invites everyone who labors and is burdened to come to him. The labor and the burden of each of us is unique and known only to the Lord. Yet, to each person, Jesus invites us to take his yoke upon us and learn from him. In his meekness and humility, he adds no weight of sin and suffering but instead relieves us of it. What might it mean that a yoke is easy? As an actual yoke that pairs two animals, a yoke that is easy conforms to the shape of the neck and shoulders and allows freedom of movement while carrying the burden. The yoke that Jesus invites us to take upon us does the same: it is shaped uniquely to each person so that we choose freely to walk with Christ as we labor to become more like him.
God, help me understand that to labor and be burdened is a reality of this life and that, realistically, there is no escape from it. When I face the difficulties of the day and the certainty of its burdens, help me remember the first words of Jesus in today's Gospel as a way to take to heart what follows: "Come to me." Twice, Jesus makes clear what his purpose is in inviting me to come to him. He says, "I will give you rest." Stay with me, Lord. Give me the grace to find rest for myself as you make your presence known.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Master, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.” Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.”
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From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (9:41-50, today's readings)
"Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another."
Jesus continues to speak to the disciples, answering their questions and teaching them. From the same chapter in Mark, in the home of one of his followers, Jesus takes a child in his arms and says, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me." Shortly after, Jesus says: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea." He tells them it is better to lose a limb or an eye if they cause you to sin and enter Gehenna, a place of unquenchable fire. It is ours to own when God holds us accountable for our actions as natural consequences follow. By being "salted with fire," a means to purification in this life's trials and in purgatory, Jesus encourages us in his mercy to be accountable for the faith and charity we show even as the Holy Spirit refines us in true faith and charity.
God, help me take to heart the words of Sirach in the first reading, who urges me to keep from the error of relying on my own strength and presuming your mercy. "Say not, Sirach writes, 'Great is his mercy; my many sins he will forgive.'" As Jesus makes clear to the disciples, make clear to me that I am responsible for the words and actions I choose through your gift of free will, ardent in my faith and trusting in your mercy and justice through Jesus Christ your Son. Lord, make me know your ways; teach me your paths.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: "Trust in the LORD and do good, that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security. Take delight in the LORD, and he will grant you your heart's requests. Commit your life to the Lord, and he will help you.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (9:30-37, today's readings)
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all." Taking a child, he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, "Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me."
As Jesus travels with the disciples through Galilee, he tells them about his coming passion, death, and resurrection. Unable to understand him, they ask no questions but on the way to Capernaum discuss who among the disciples is the greatest. Once inside the house where they would stay, Jesus shares with them what true greatness means as his disciples: the first shall be last, and the last shall be first. The child from within the house that Jesus places before them is somehow closely related to the disciples, possibly a son or daughter or nephew or niece of one of the disciples. In receiving the child, Jesus teaches us what the love of a father for his children looks like as he speaks of his own Father and ours as the "One who sent me."
Father in heaven, teach me to put myself last of all today. In doing what is necessary today, help me look first to the needs of others even as I accomplish my tasks. Nothing extraordinary is likely to happen today as I try to act on being "the last of all and the servant of all." Yet, let me receive the gifts you give me today and not take my own agendas so seriously that I forget you, the giver of all that is good. The psalmist's prayer is to "trust in the LORD and do good." Give me the grace to take to heart this seemingly simple task today for the sake of your glory.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD is king, in splendor robed; robed is the LORD and girt about with strength. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (9:14-29, today's readings)
Jesus said to him, “‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.” Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!”
Taking place immediately after the Transfiguration as Jesus comes down from the mountain with Peter, James, John and meets the other disciples, today's Gospel describes Jesus' encounter with a man whose son is possessed. In an argument with some scribes after attempting to drive out the demon, the disciples face the lack of faith of the father and the scribes. That is why Jesus says to them, "O faithless generation, how long will I be with you?" Jesus then asks them to bring the boy to him, whose spirit throws him to the ground in convulsions. The father asks for Jesus compassion and help, saying "if you can do anything." Jesus redirects the father's attention to everything that is possible through faith in God. In response, his profession of faith is a prayer for all who have faith in the Lord: "I do believe, help my unbelief."
God, help me trust that you can do the impossible, especially in circumstances that appear to have no solution. Just as the father asks for help on behalf of the son, let me come to you with firm conviction in faith that you alone can restore us to your image. Daily life seems to produce abundant barriers to the realization of hope sought through continual prayer. Yet, through Jesus Christ your Son, you transfigure human dignity in a way that accomplishes your plan for salvation while respecting free will. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts," you say through Isaiah, "neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD." Lord, strengthen my faith!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him. The Lord is kind and merciful.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (6:27-38, today's readings)
"But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
In these words, Jesus might seem to impose a standard that is too high for anyone who has received mistreatment from others. In cases of abuse, turning the other cheek is not about passively accepting it but instead refusing to engage in cycles of mistreatment and a commitment to breaking the patterns of aggression, degradation, and manipulation that inherently assault one's human dignity. Even so, the forgiveness that Jesus calls us to is not of earthly origin; it comes from the Father, and we receive it as his children. As Saint Paul writes, we have borne the image of the earthly man, Adam, we will also bear the image of the heavenly one, "As a father has compassion on his children," the psalmist says, "so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him." With the love of the Father—the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ—who first loved us, we are to love our enemies and expect nothing in return.
Father in heaven, teach me to forgive; show me how to be merciful as you are merciful. Help me always to forgive no matter what and to reconcile with others whenever possible. Give me all the grace needed to continue to forgive when mistreated and to know that it is not meant for me to hold as your child but is for the sake of your Son's passion and death and for him to bear. When reconciliation is for the moment out of reach, teach me in that moment to forgive as best as I am able as I receive and give away your mercy for the sake of your glory. The Lord is kind and merciful. Jesus, I trust in you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side With your rod and your staff that give me courage. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (16:13-19, today's readings)
"And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
By asking the disciples two questions, Jesus brings into focus an understanding of him that goes beyond human observation. "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" In asking this, Jesus opens up to them the reality of his divine Sonship. Jesus further brings them to another realization by asking, “But who do you say that I am?” Hearing Peter's answer, Jesus acknowledges what the Father reveals to him. He confers upon Peter the governance of his Church and the authority to make binding decisions regarding moral and doctrinal matters. In matters of faith and morals as he is guided by the Holy Spirit, the pope is the servant of servants of God, which continues in apostolic succession throughout the centuries. We acknowledge papal authority because Jesus himself conferred it upon Peter, whose profession of faith—"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."—is the rock on which the Church is built.
God, deepen my understanding of the gift of the Church and the papacy. Jesus asks the disciples questions that he also asks his followers every day. Help me see in the Church and the sacraments the teachings and guidance of Jesus, given out of love, as pure gifts to his people. Lord, in exile while on earth, I have the Church to guide and light my way for all the days of my life; in the life of the world to come, I have her for endless length of days—the light of your face in your heavenly kingdom. Saint Peter, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD brings to nought the plans of nations; he foils the designs of peoples. But the plan of the LORD stands forever; the design of his heart, through all generations. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (8:34—9:1, today's readings)
"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the Gospel will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? What could one give in exchange for his life?"
Speaking both to the crowds and to his disciples, Jesus teaches them the necessity of denying oneself and taking up one's cross. In this dense teaching, he says the word life four times. To gain one's life is to lose it for the sake of Christ; to detach from all that the world offers is to work toward coming into his kingdom in his Father's glory, the Second Coming. If to profit in this life means to forfeit the life of the world to come, all the profit in the world is loss. The paradoxes Jesus shares—all centering around life and the cross—are not clever inversions but truth spoken by the person of truth, the Incarnate Word. What is our truthful response to the Word made flesh and the nature of his relationship with us? The Gospel acclamation makes this clear: "I call you my friends, says the Lord, for I have made known to you all that the Father has told me."
God, let me remember the words of Saint Peter Damian as he speaks about the necessity of carrying the cross. He said, "For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection." The people in the first reading were united by a common language but saw their unity crumble in the tower they built out of self-adulation. In the midst of the day, help me lose life for your sake so that I gain it. Give me the grace to detach from what is transient and work for the profits that bring me to you in the unity of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ your Son. Saint Peter Damian, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the Gospel acclamation: "Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life; you have the words of everlasting life.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (8:27-33, today's readings)
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
By their own profession of faith spoken by Peter, the disciples tell Jesus that he is Christ, the Son of Man. By asking them questions, Jesus hears their answers and takes their exchange a step further. He begins to teach them about his coming passion, death, and resurrection. Peter's image of Christ the Messiah is discordant with the truth of Jesus' mission, so he rebukes him. Jesus is perfectly obedient to the will of the Father, fulfilling his plan for our salvation. What Peter doesn't understand, he makes clear to him even as he turns his gaze to the disciples. That God has a plan for us in Jesus, there is no doubt, as we hear him say in the first reading, "For in the image of God has man been made."
God, help me see clearly where my plans end and yours begin. I pray to be free of unwieldy desires to control what I can't control and instead to let you take that from me. In your image, I am made free in order to freely choose to do your will. As Saint John Paul II said, “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” Peter did not desire to see Jesus face his coming persecution and death, but he was powerless to impose his will on a plan Jesus freely chose to fulfill. Give me the grace, Lord, to recognize and name your divinity and think as you do but not as human beings do. Lead me, guide me, for the sake of your name.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the Gospel acclamation: "May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts, that we may know what is the hope that belongs to his call."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (8:22-26, today's readings)
Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked, “Do you see anything?” Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.” Then he laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.
Today's Gospel acclamation points to what Mark tells us about Jesus as he restores sight to the blind man. The eyes of our hearts need enlightenment in order to see the hope that Jesus is as he stands before us. When Jesus first lays hands on the blind man, anointing him with spittle, he sees indistinctly with distorted vision. When Jesus lays hands on him a second time, his sight is restored perfectly. The interaction between Jesus and the blind man demonstrates the need for relationship with Jesus, to hear and respond to him as he teaches us to see distinctly with the eyes of our hearts.
God, just as the blind man's vision was clouded and obscured, so is mine in many ways. You alone, Lord, are the just judge who knows the truth of my dependence on you to see you and this present reality with eyes made to behold what is true and good and beautiful. Through your grace, do the continual work necessary to restore my sight as I respond to the love you give in your word and in the sacraments of your Church on earth. You know me and you probe me. In the psalms, what do I have to offer if not gratitude for all your good gifts? "To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The voice of the LORD is over the waters, the LORD, over vast waters. The voice of the LORD is mighty; the voice of the LORD is majestic. The Lord will bless his people with peace."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (8:14-21, today's readings)
And do you not remember, when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?” They answered him, “Twelve.” “When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?” They answered him, “Seven.” He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”
On a boat with the disciples, they tell Jesus they have only one loaf of bread with them. Jesus says to them, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” Jesus observes that they don't understand him and asks them whether they comprehend what he means. "Are your hearts hardened?" he asks them. "Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?" Because they don't yet understand the identity of Jesus as the Son of God and his mission, he goes on to remind them of his feeding of the crowds and asks again if they still don't understand, spoken not out of questioning their ability to comprehend him but out of love. In this way, he brings us not to a place of self-doubt but one of greater trust in his divinity and goodness as he invites the disciples and all of us to understand him more deeply.
God, help me remember today what Jesus calls me to in questioning my understanding of him. This is not to cast a shadow on your gift of intellect but to draw me closer to him. Let me welcome the question "Do you not yet understand or comprehend?" In a million years, I would not yet understand. Yet, Jesus condescends to make a place for me nearer and nearer to him as I grow to greater understanding through childlike faith. Give me the grace, Lord, to trust in your providence for everything and to stay in the boat with you in the midst of adversity. Give to the LORD the glory due his name!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “'You sit speaking against your brother; against your mother’s son you spread rumors. When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it? Or do you think that I am like yourself? I will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes.' Offer to God a sacrifice of praise."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (6:17, 20-26, today's readings)
“Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”
The Pharisees come to Jesus asking for a sign from heaven. At this, Mark says, Jesus "sighed from the depth of his spirit." After he tells them no sign will be given to them, he gets in the boat again and goes to the other shore, continuing his mission elsewhere. Jesus sighs, seeing as God sees, the blindness of his people. Just as God warned Cain about "a demon lurking at his door" and the psalmist calls out those who "sit speaking against your brother," Jesus sees the evil we are capable of that he brings out into the light.
God sees because he is God and we are not. Even in the presence of the Incarnate Word, the sight of faith sometimes fails to function. Jesus is not just a sign but the visible sign of the invisible God who delivers for us his ultimate plan for salvation.
God, help me see as you see. Through the truth of the risen Christ, I am set free to know and worship you, to find meaning even as I ponder the mystery of Christ's passion, death, and resurrection. As Saint John Paul II said, "Through this revelation, men and women are offered the ultimate truth about their own life and about the goal of history." I don't see you, Lord, as I ought. In my shortcomings, strengthen my faith that you alone are the Lord, to offer you a sacrifice of praise in making yourself known through the incarnation of your Son. "I am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father except through me." Jesus, I trust in you!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked, nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 6:17, 20-26, today's readings)
And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours."
Jesus speaks to the disciples and great numbers of people. They come, as Luke tells us, from Judea and Jerusalem and the wealthy Phoenician regions of Tyre and Sidon. Jesus shares the Beatitudes with both Gentiles and Jews, rich and poor, the satisfied and the hungry. In speaking to them face to face on a level plain as the Just Judge, he raises the lowly and brings to the level of dust the wealthy. The poor are not satisfied in their hunger, and the rich are not satiated by what has brought them to prosperity. The words of Jesus are not mere observations on the state of humanity; his words level mountains. In the Communion antiphon for today, we hear how his words take root and fulfill us, at whatever level we stand in life: "They ate and had their fill, and what they craved the Lord gave them; they were not disappointed in what they craved."
God, help me learn to be satisfied less with the food the world offers and rely more and more on the sustenance you provide. Jeremiah reminds me that to stay rooted in you, I am not to put my trust in human beings, in the strength of flesh. Instead, he says, "Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is the LORD." The kingdom of God is here and yet to be. Give me the grace and wisdom not to be filled now, not to pursue consolation as an end in itself, but even in the midst of difficulty and suffering to "be glad and leap for joy" at the true food you give me today. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 8:1-10, today's readings)
His disciples answered him, "Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?" Still he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They replied, "Seven."
In this passage known as the Feeding of the Four Thousand, the words Jesus speaks are as profound as the miracle he performs. What was left over after the miracle also speaks of God's abundant mercy—seven basketsful of fragments. Aware of the physical needs of the crowd following him for three days, Jesus feels great compassion for them, and we hear him say, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd." His care for them extends beyond their physical presence with him: "If I send them away hungry to their homes," Jesus says, "they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great distance." The great distance they have come is an expression of their desire to be with the Lord, to stay with him. All-knowing and ever merciful, Jesus not only supplies them with food to satisfy hunger but with the fulfillment of our deepest longings.
God, help me trust that you look to the needs of your people at all times with compassion and mercy. What I tend to think I need during the day turns out to be not a need at all but more the fulfillment of requirements I set for myself. Jesus looks out over the crowd and sees what they need and immediately provides for them. Let me put myself in the sometimes uncomfortable disposition to receive your mercy and be fed by you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered. Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile. Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 7:31-37, today's readings)
He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly.
The ears of the deaf man are opened because of the miracle Jesus performs but also because people bring the man to Jesus. Not in isolation, the man experiences the love of others who believe Jesus can restore his hearing and speech. In the first reading, the serpent finds and isolates Eve, effectively dividing her from the union she has with Adam and God and all of creation. In restoring the deaf man, Jesus doesn't merely undo what the evil one did in the Garden of Eden; he restores the man to wholeness in a foretaste of the new creation, the beatific vision in the life of the world to come. Mark tells us that the man's speech impediment was removed and that he spoke plainly. The plain speech that drives the evil one away is one word: Jesus.
God, let me see the peace that results from the work Jesus accomplished while on earth and the hope of eternal life in his passion, death, and resurrection. At creation, Lord, you said you found all that you had made very good. Jesus took the deaf man aside, away from others who loved and cared for him, in order to draw him into more intimate union with you. In opening his ears and lips, Jesus restores him to your plan for creation so that all may say of your glory, "He has done all things well." Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son. Saints Cyril and Methodius, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. The LORD bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Blessed are those who fear the Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 7:31-37,today's readings)
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, "Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs." She replied and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps." Then he said to her, "For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
Wherever he goes, Jesus cannot escape notice, even among the Gentiles. People come to him from all sides, as the woman in today's Gospel does for the sake of her daughter. In responding to the woman, Jesus refers to the claim of the Jews that they first receive his ministry as God's chosen ones. But for the mother who sees the suffering of her daughter, that claim does nothing to hold her back. Jesus gives her the opportunity to demonstrate the depth of her faith expressed in desperate need. Similarly, in the first reading from Genesis, we see the dignity of Adam and Eve standing before God in complete reliance on him, both naked yet feeling no shame. Jesus invites us to come to him with the same dignity, in complete recognition of all he can do for us in his mercy as our Lord and creator.
God, just as the woman approached Jesus, aware of her otherness but in great need, I ask for the grace to do the same. In willing to do anything to restore her daughter's health, the mother had heard of Jesus and simply fell at his feet on meeting him. Help me today put to work the exemplary persistent faith of the woman and her holy fear and reverence as she knelt before you. At creation, "The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame." In humility and childlike trust, let me remember to come to you throughout the day, to come with persistence, and to plead that your will—which is love—be done for me and others. Blessed are those who fear the Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD, my God, you are great indeed! You are clothed with majesty and glory, robed in light as with a cloak. O bless the Lord, my soul!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 7:14-23,today's readings)
“But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.”
After the Pharisees criticize the disciples of Jesus for not following Jewish traditions of purification, Jesus tells the disciples, "Nothing that enters one from from outside can defile that person." From the heart come a host of evil thoughts and actions, extending all the way back to original sin in the Garden of Eden. What defiles, Jesus tells us, is not what enters the stomach but what enters the heart and comes from within. This is why baptism and repentance are necessary to restore us to God, because God restores us to the truth. The Gospel acclamation for today is: "Your word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in the truth." What we once took for ourselves from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, Jesus gives us abundantly through the sacraments—the embodiment of his passion, death, and resurrection.
God, in recognition that what defiles comes from within, flood me with your grace and mercy today. Left to myself, I have nothing; you are the source of every good gift. The vices that come from my heart have no place to hide in the dark but are scattered by the light of your face. Help me call to mind that after looking on everything you made, you found it very good. Be with me today, Lord.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place—What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 7:1-13, today’s readings)
He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts. You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”
The Pharisees observe that the disciples of Jesus eat their meals with unwashed hands and fail to purify themselves after coming from the marketplace, according to Jewish tradition. In questioning Jesus about this, they point out that the disciples are not followers of the tradition of the elders. Jesus’ response cuts to the heart of the issue as he quotes Isaiah to reveal their oppressive teaching and deep-rooted hypocrisy. He criticizes the Pharisees for allowing traditions to undermine God’s inherently good commandments through their strict adherence to rituals. Intentions matter; in prayer and ritual observance, where do we find God except in hearing and doing his will, inclining our hearts to his decrees?
God, your law is rooted in love, mercy, and justice. Through the person of Jesus, you give us every one of these gifts—not a set of prohibitions or obligations but a call toward the good to build relationship with you and others in a way that corresponds to your will. When Jesus says the Pharisees nullify your word and that they “do many such things,” give me the grace to recognize the ways I turn away from you and your word. When I am tempted to think that those who set aside your commandments and instead upheld tradition lived and died a long time ago, guide me to the realization that I myself have done the same and will do the same again. From Genesis, I read: “God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.” Guide me, Lord, to see as you see. Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD, my God, you are great indeed! You are clothed with majesty and glory, robed in light as with a cloak. May the Lord be glad in his works.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 6:53-56, today’s readings)
They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.
Word of Jesus spread quickly throughout the whole region. In Gennesaret, as soon as people realized Jesus set foot on the shore, they begin to bring their sick to him. Not long before, on his way to heal Jairus’s daughter, a woman came to Jesus only to touch his cloak and was healed. Perhaps people heard this story told and began to hurry to get their sick loved ones to Jesus as soon as he was present. Mark tells us this about the places Jesus visits: “Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.” Jesus rewards the great faith these people act on with teaching and healing, bringing them to wholeness in this life while preparing them for life in the world to come.
God, help me rest today in the true hope and consolation of Jesus Christ your Son. “Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people,” the Gospel acclamation says. Time after time, Lord, let me come to you to hear your word and to know genuine gratitude for all your good gifts. In receiving you in the Eucharist, I begin to perceive the peace the people experienced as you healed them of their illnesses. Stay with me, Lord; make me whole. Memorial of Saint Scholastica, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Your right hand saves me. The LORD will complete what he has done for me; your kindness, O LORD, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 5:1-11,today's readings)
After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch." Simon said in reply, "Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets." When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their nets were tearing.
Luke describes the calling of the first disciples, namely Simon Peter, James, and John. Commenting on this passage, Saint John Paul II said, "Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." By saying this, he reminded us that God continually calls us to live a deeper, more purposeful life. Simon Peter's response to Jesus is an example of faith and humility; an experienced fisherman, Peter would have known well when and where to catch fish. Returning to the shore, Peter professes Jesus as Lord, not fit to be in his presence. Jesus says to him, calling him to his mission of evangelization: "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men."
God, help me understand that you dwell in depth and mystery yet are ever present in the sacraments of the Church, especially in the real presence of the Eucharist. My own will, like Peter's, moves from what it knows and toward what it knows. Give me the grace to hear and understand your will in the depth of my heart and then act on it. Guide me away from the mediocrity of determining that my life's purpose is self-circumscribed. From the deep, unseen places where you are and through the body and blood of Jesus, guide me toward accepting your will and doing what you ask of me. Make clear to me, Lord, what it is you wish me for to do.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the Gospel acclamation: "A great prophet has arisen in our midst and God has visited his people."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (today's readings)
As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him. But Jesus would not permit him but told him instead, “Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.”
Following the calming of a storm at sea, Jesus and the disciples arrive at the region of Gerasenes and encounter a man possessed by demons. Living among the tombs and restrained by chains and shackles he smashed, the demon-possessed man meets Jesus at the shore. Night and day, Mark tells us, the man cried out and bruised himself with stones. Recognizing Jesus by name, the demons identifying themselves as Legion, beg Jesus not to torment them. Granting their request, Jesus sends the demons into a nearby herd of pigs, which immediately rush down a steep bank into the sea. The man returns to his right mind, and the witnesses and nearby townspeople beg the man to leave, who first attempts to go with Jesus and then travels to the Decapolis to proclaim what Jesus has done for him. The people are amazed, and word of Jesus begins to spread. Sometimes life would have us living among tombs, possessed by inner demons. If Jesus drove out Legion, he can drive out any of those who name themselves or any who dwell in us in anonymity. "Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord."
God, stay beside me this moment and throughout the day as I meditate on the power of Jesus Christ your Son to name and cast out any evil within me. Thanks be to you, Lord, for the gifts of baptism and reconciliation and the true food and true drink of the Eucharist. Jesus commanded the possessed man to do one thing. Let me open my heart in gratitude to his command and find joy in it: “Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.” Help me remember your compassion, Lord, as I place my trust in you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Lift up, O gates, your lintels; reach up, you ancient portals, that the king of glory may come in! Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (today's readings)
The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted—and you yourself a sword will pierce—so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
The words of Simeon to Mary are powerful, and from Mary's viewpoint must have been very disquieting. For her to hear that Jesus will figure into the lives of many in Israel and that he will be a sign of contradiction is unsettling enough. To add to that, Simeon tells her that she herself will be pierced by a sword. This foreshadows the suffering Mary will endure at the rejection and crucifixion of Jesus. And for what purpose? "so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." At the end of the passage, Luke says this about all the years ahead that Jesus would spend in the home of Joseph and Mary after they presented him to the Lord: "The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him."
God, help me understand what Simeon and Anna understood about Jesus. As they awaited the consolation of Israel throughout their long lives, they witnessed him firsthand, "a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel." Confident in his faith at seeing his salvation, Simeon was able to say, “Now, Master, you may let your servant go." Give me the grace, Lord, to receive the Eucharist with the same faith, realizing that you are truly present in the form of bread and wine—that it is the king of glory, the Lord, that I take and receive and let dwell within me. "Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!"
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the bonds of our enemies, free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; he has come to his people."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (today's readings)
Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
In the first reading, Saint Paul mentions the word faith—what he defines as "the realization of what is hoped for"—six times as he recounts the faith of Abraham, who followed God and received the fullness of God's promises. Using the word just once, Jesus questions the disciples after he calms the storm. And with a single word, the same one with which Jesus silences demons, he calms the storm by saying "Quiet!" While the disciples stood in awe of Jesus' mastery over the elements, we know what they didn't know about him yet: he is the risen Christ, the Son of God, who destroys death and restores life. The disciples ask him beforehand, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" Jesus answers as he always does when we question his sovereignty over every moment in our lives: "Do you not yet have faith?"
God, throughout the day, help me remember three words Jesus spoke to the disciples: "Quiet! Be still!" In order to hear that voice, I have to remain in the boat with him in the midst of storms. Give me the grace to remain there and not cast myself into sea swells. I'm sure that sometime in the future for a yet-unknown reason, my prayer will be "Don't you care, God?" In that moment, Lord, don't let me lose sight of you seated in the stern. Remove all fear, and strengthen my faith. Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Trust in the LORD and do good, that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security. Take delight in the LORD, and he will grant you your heart’s requests. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (today's readings)
Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear."
Of its own accord, the seed of the kingdom of God sprouts and grows and ripens for the harvest. Jesus speaks in parables to the crowds so that they receive and let take root the word of God as children receive the love and guidance of parents. "With many such parables," Mark tells us, "he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it." Jesus' revelation of the kingdom is more than the sharing of factual information; it is an invitation to participate in its wonder and mystery. In receiving the word, as Saint Paul puts it, we are "among those who have faith and will possess life" as the smallest of seeds grow to the fullness of grain that is harvested and gathered.
God, your kingdom is here and now and yet to be. In it, "we live and move and have our being." Help me today to hold on to a childlike sense of faith and wonder at your presence in the world and in the events of the day that are close to home as they unfold. The Gospel acclamation reminds me that "you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom." Let me turn my attention less to the things that I can make grow and thrive and more to your eternal will being done as things take place seemingly of their own accord. Lord, let me take refuge in you; sustain and save me. Saint John Bosco, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD? or who may stand in his holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean, who desires not what is vain. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 4:21-25)
He also told them, “Take care what you hear. The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you. To the one who has, more will be given; from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”
Jesus continues teaching the disciples, placing his focus on the purpose and impact of his message by making two comparisons: the light from a lamp and ears for hearing. What Jesus reveals is not meant to be hidden away but instead given a place of prominence so that the revelation illuminates all of the lives it touches. "The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you" is to say that you receive what you put in, whether attentive to his words or indifferent or dismissive of them. Jesus calls us to actively listen to him and respond to his teachings, which is essential to growing in faith and understanding of his message.
God, as Saint Paul encourages in the first reading, let me do today as I approach you with a sincere heart and absolute trust. So many moving pieces go into a day that it is sometimes hard to see the light that shines right in front of me or to listen attentively for your quiet voice amid a bustle of activity. “Take care what you hear," Jesus says. And anyone who has hears, which is everybody, ought to hear and see what his revelation makes visible. Lord, keep me far from being the one who has not. Give me the grace to receive still more from you as I measure out the breadth and depth and height of your word. "Such is the race that seeks for him," the psalmist prays, "that seeks the face of the God of Jacob."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the Gospel acclamation: "The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower;
all who come to him will live for ever."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 4:1-20)
Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables? The sower sows the word. These are the ones on the path where the word is sown."
Using a parable about a sower, Jesus describes conditions in life that we all face at one time or another. Jesus explains to the crowd gathered around him by the sea that the seed represents the word of God and that different types of ground symbolize the various responses to his word. Whether through persecution or distraction or anxiety or succumbing to the evil one, we sometimes fail to see God's word take root. "But those sown on rich soil," Jesus says, "are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.” What kind of soil will the sower of the word find in us as he comes to sow his word?
God, help me prepare my heart to receive your word so that it takes root and bears fruit "thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.” The seed that you come to plant will grow throughout my life and continue to grow even into eternal life through the single sacrifice of Jesus Christ your Son. You are the sower who promises and delivers, as Jeremiah prophesied, through the New Covenant to put your laws into our hearts and write them upon our minds. Give me the grace, Lord, to make of myself a good seedbed of rich soil, ready to receive your word. In fruitfulness, let it grow abundantly in this life and continue to grow under the eternal light of your presence. Let me hear and accept your word.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 3:31-35)
“Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
As the mother of Jesus and his brothers stand outside, word is sent to Jesus that they wish to speak to him. Commonly referred to as brothers were extended family members such as cousins. Jesus tells the crowd who his family is as he looks around at each of them. At the coming of Jesus, Saint Paul tells us, the will of the Father takes the place of sacrifices of burnt offerings and sin offerings. "By this 'will,' Paul says, "we have been consecrated through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all."
God, help me dwell today on the divine guidance the readings give in doing your will. The psalmist says, "Burnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, 'Behold I come.' Here am I Lord; I come to do your will." Twice, the psalmist says, "waited"—"I have waited, waited for the LORD." God, come to my assistance; Lord, make haste to help me. Give me the grace today to recognize and accomplish your will.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 3:22-30)
"Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin."
Jesus summons the scribes to address a lie they have been telling about him. They say, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons." United in the Father and the Holy Spirit, Jesus does not participate in division but only eternal unity. A human kingdom has unity but also has factions so that within that unity division can exist. Divided from the unity of truth, a lie springs from the father of lies, the evil one, and is participation in everlasting sin. Jesus knows the intentions of the scribes and through divine wisdom exposes their lie. Jesus says all sins and blasphemies will be forgiven. "But," he says, "whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin." Unity forged by the strongest human bonds will always fail; let the truth of God enter in to plunder and drive out division.
God, assist me by every good grace you can give me to recognize where division is so that you can bind it and make it useless. I don't want to live out of unity with you, yet that is where I tend in my inclination toward sin. Help me today in these two ways: by removing me from division and by letting you in. In my house, Lord, come with power to tie up and disable all that blocks your entrance. I don't want to participate in any lie that would keep you out, and I
depend on you for every good gift. Lord, you say, "Without me you can do nothing." Be my strength, Lord. Jesus, I trust in you!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul; The decree of the LORD is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple. Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21)
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
On the sabbath and in the town of Nazareth, where Jesus had grown up, in the synagogue he reads from a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. After reading it, he says to those in the synagogue, "Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing." In saying this, Jesus claims divine identity as the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. Today's Gospel begins from the first chapter of Luke, in which he lays out his intention for writing it: just as many have written of the events Jesus fulfilled, Luke carefully investigates the events so that "you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received." As Jesus fulfills what we hear him read in the portion of the reading, he fulfills entirely all of it, as when Isaiah says Jesus was sent "To give them oil of gladness instead of mourning, a glorious mantle instead of a faint spirit." Jesus embodies the longing of the prophets; he is hope realized from every promise God fulfills.
God, strengthen my faith. Luke investigates the events of Jesus and retells them for that purpose. What I first received through faith, help me grow in the certainty of its teachings and be released from the bonds of doubt. Why does Luke retell what has been told but to share with one person, Theophilus, the entirety of the Gospel? In sharing that joy with one person, he shares with the whole world. Lord, give me the grace to see the words and actions of Jesus anew in Luke's Gospel. Help me see in him the fulfillment of all of your promises made throughout the history of salvation. In receiving the word, let me be firm in faith and tirelessly retell to one soul at a time what Jesus brought to fulfillment: "The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, and to proclaim liberty to the captives."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the Gospel acclamation: "For steadfast is his kindness toward us, and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 16:15-18)
Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned."
As Jesus speaks to the apostles, he describes the signs that will accompany them. Those who have been baptized and believe, he tells them, will be able to accomplish supernatural works through the Holy Spirit. Called by the same Lord and sent out to proclaim the Gospel is Paul, who describes himself as one to whom the risen Christ appeared last of all; in Paul's words, "as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me." The story of the apostles and the story of Paul teach us something about the call to discipleship. Among those who are baptized, the call will come early or the call will come late. Like Paul, with our many gifts, we are a "chosen instrument," responding to the voice of Jesus who calls us to "get up and go" by proclaiming the Gospel.
God, help me throughout the day to consider the conversion of Saint Paul. He was literally knocked off his high horse, blinded by your light, and brought to wholeness through fasting and with the help of others. How familiar is the armor of self-preservation that keeps me moment by moment from receiving your grace. Yet, Jesus calls the apostles and Paul and all who hear his voice to put on the armor or Christ for a purpose the Gospel acclamation states perfectly: "I chose you from the world, to go and bear fruit that will last, says the Lord." Jesus chose the apostles from the world, from out of the world, and he chose Paul as "a chosen instrument of mine." Saint Paul, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.
From the Gospel acclamation: “Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 3:1-6)
He said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up here before us.” Then he said to the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent.
In the synagogue on the sabbath, the Pharisees watch Jesus closely in order to trap him. Without saying a word, the Pharisees speak from their heart, but the words of Jesus silence them, just as he commands unclean spirits to be silent. Mark tells us that Jesus looked around at the Pharisees with anger and was grieved at their hardness of heart. After the silence, Jesus says one more thing: "Stretch out your hand." In the stillness that follows, Jesus restores the man's withered hand. The Pharisees sought a way to take the life of Jesus, stretching out their hand to the Herodians and hearing a legion of voices tell them that by destroying the Prince of Peace, peace will be restored. In the midst of the day, will we take time in silence to seek healing from the Lord, to hear the voice of Jesus say, "Stretch out your hand"?
God, help me reflect on these words of Jesus on this day of prayer for the legal protection of unborn children. Just as he spoke in tenderness to the man with the withered hand, he speaks to everyone who calls on his name and seeks to be restored to you through the power of the Holy Spirit. "Stretch out your hand," Jesus says, inviting us once again to be restored to the divine mercy of his Father—our Father—and the promise of eternal life as your children.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “He has sent deliverance to his people; he has ratified his covenant forever; holy and awesome is his name. His praise endures forever. The Lord will remember his covenant for ever."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 2:23-28)
At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?"
Jesus responds to the Pharisees who question the disciples of Jesus as they pick the heads of grain on the sabbath. The tension between the interpretation of the law that Jesus offers them and their own strict interpretation centers on their claim that it is unlawful to work on the sabbath. Jesus answers their question with a question, drawing on an example from David and his companions. Jesus goes on with a divine interpretation of the sabbath, one that reveals it not in rigid, legalistic framing but as a gift from God meant for the people. He says to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
God, let me see the gift you give me today in choosing to serve you in complete freedom. When I hear Jesus say, "Have you never read. . . ," I hear a kind of exasperation with the constant questioning and strictness of the Pharisees. You don't impose yourself, and obedience to your will is not oppressive. You see me in my needs and give me the freedom to choose to do what is good and pleasing to you. Just as David shared the bread of offering with his companions to satiate their hunger, help me see the hunger others have for your mercy and give to others what you first gave to me. Saint Agnes, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek. The LORD said to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.'"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 2:18-22)
Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day."
A day after we hear John's account of the Wedding at Cana, today's Gospel again presents Jesus as the bridegroom who delights in the guests at the wedding banquet. As long as Jesus is physically present, joy and fulfillment are given in abundance. But a time will come when he is "taken way" during his passion and death; then there will be fasting in the sorrow of his absence. The two parables Jesus shares—the new patch on the old garment and new wine poured into old wineskins—illustrate the new reality Jesus brings in his presence. The New Covenant cannot simply be imposed on or confined by the ways of the old covenant. The joy of the New Covenant is in Christ himself and the Church he establishes through perfect obedience to the Father.
God, help me participate fully in the joy and new life Jesus brings as your bridegroom. Strengthen my faith, especially in times of sorrow and guide me to live in the fullness of joy that comes from following Jesus Christ your Son. As Saint Paul says, "Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him." By his example and through your grace, guide me in knowing and doing your will.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; The ordinances of the LORD are true, all of them just. Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 2:13-17)
Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors and said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus heard this and said to them, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”
Jesus calls Levi (Matthew) to follow him. Matthew invites Jesus to dine at his house along with many tax collectors and sinners. When the Scribes and Pharisees see them dining together, they are critical of Jesus, questioning why he would eat with sinners. After Jesus hears their remarks, his response reveals the purpose of his mission and how he came to choose Matthew as one of the apostles: the sick need the Divine Physician, and Jesus calls sinners to him. Saint Paul recognizes the dependence we have on the grace and mercy Jesus offers when he says, "No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account."
Father in heaven, help me now and throughout the day receive your grace through Jesus Christ your Son. Let the words of Saint Paul remind me what it means to respond as Saint Matthew did on hearing the words "Follow me." It means that in approaching the throne of grace, I have the sympathy and compassion of Jesus. Give me the grace to do as Paul urges in saying, "So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help." Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of the Divine Physician, show me the way to your Son. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Jesus immediately knew in his mind what they were thinking to themselves, so he said, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, pick up your mat and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth”—he said to the paralytic, “I say to you, rise, pick up your mat, and go home.” He rose, picked up his mat at once, and went away in the sight of everyone.
Mark tells us that so many people came to see Jesus when he returned to Capernaum, that there was not enough room for them as they crowded around the home where he was staying. As he taught them, friends of a paralyzed man brought him to Jesus but were unable to get to Jesus because of the crowd. They resorted to climbing the roof, breaking through it, and lowering the man down on a mat. "When Jesus saw their faith," Mark tells us, "he said to him, 'Child, your sins are forgiven.'” Jesus knew what the scribes were thinking and responded to them, making clear that as the Son of God, he is able to heal the sick and forgive sins. The miracle takes place before astounded witnesses who glorify God and say, “We have never seen anything like this.”
From the responsorial psalm: “Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 1:40-45)
The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere.
The man with leprosy who comes to Jesus and drops to his knees says, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Jesus tells him, "I to will it. Be made clean." He is healed immediately, and Jesus tells him not to tell anybody, but the man tells everybody he knows. Word of Jesus spreads, and it is impossible for him to go anywhere unrecognized. He remains outside of towns in deserted places, yet people come to him from everywhere for his healing. By the time Saint Paul writes the Letter to the Hebrews, the risen Jesus is present in the "today" of people's lives and until he comes again. "We have become partners of Christ," Paul says, "if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end."
God, work with me today as I call to mind that one and all come to Jesus for healing and wholeness. They come as unrepeatable, unique people and as a people who seek to see the face of God and drop to their knees, presenting every need imaginable. Help me, Lord, come to you first for everything today, if only by saying your name and bringing you into the midst of everything I do. "And people kept coming to him from everywhere." Why is that? Jesus, I trust in you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “Give thanks to the LORD, invoke his name; make known among the nations his deeds. Sing to him, sing his praise, proclaim all his wondrous deeds. The Lord remembers his covenant for ever."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 1:29-39)
When it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons. The whole town was gathered at the door. He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove out many demons, not permitting them to speak because they knew him.
Mark describes a series of events in the early ministry of Jesus. After leaving the synagogue where he taught and exorcised a man with an unclean spirit, Jesus goes to the house of Simon and Andrew and heals Simon's mother-in-law, who lays sick with a fever. That same evening, people come to Jesus, and he cures them of their illnesses and casts out demons of those who are possessed. The next morning before dawn he rises and goes off to pray, and Simon and the others find him and tell him that everyone is looking for him. "So he went into their synagogues," Mark tells us, "preaching and driving out demons throughout the whole of Galilee." In his compassion, Jesus acts as both healer and teacher in his mission to bring salvation and hope to humanity. He continues to do that today.
God, help me trust in your mercy and take comfort in Jesus' saving mission as I consider the words of Saint Paul: "Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested." Through the mystery of suffering, let me learn my complete dependence on you for all that is good. Let my weaknesses be a means of giving glory to you, Lord, who through your Son destroyed death. "Look to the LORD in his strength," the psalmist prays, "seek to serve him constantly." Grasp me by the hand and help me always be mindful of doing your will.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth! What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 1:21-28)
The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
Mark describes a key event in the early ministry of Jesus as he reveals his divine authority in the synagogue at Capernaum by teaching and by casting out an unclean spirit. Mark describes Jesus' teaching and its effect four separate times in this short passage: "The people were astonished at his teaching"; "he entered the synagogue and taught:"; "he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes"; and, "A new teaching with authority." The interrelationship between teaching and his exorcism of the unclean spirit demonstrates that the power of Jesus is present in his words and actions. As the Son of God, the Word made flesh in the person of Christ, Jesus makes known the truth of the Father in life-giving words and redemptive actions.
God, you are present every moment of every day in the teachings of Jesus and in the sacraments as the Word made flesh. The astonishment of the people in the synagogue is my astonishment, at hand today. It is even a more present reality in the Church, the Body of Christ, and in the sacraments Jesus instituted during his earthly ministry. How can I not be astonished as I give thanks for the sacraments that are at their roots, as the Catechism teaches, from the actions and teachings of Jesus. The unclean spirit cries out, "I know who you are—the Holy One of God." In naming you, Lord, the Evil One has no power but is instead driven out to "prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls." Let the Gospel acclamation teach me today: "Receive the word of God not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; let the many isles be glad. Justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne. Let all his angels worship him."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 1:14-20)
Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Then they left their nets and followed him. He walked along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets. Then he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him.
Mark relates in just a few words the beginning of Jesus' public ministry as he picks up the proclamation of the Gospel after John is arrested. Sounding very much like John, Jesus says, "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” But he says something else, which foreshadows his earthly ministry. "This is the time of fulfillment." It is with this authority that Jesus calls the first disciples to follow him. And they do. Immediately, they leave their nets behind—the ones they are casting and the ones they are mending. Jesus calls them from the midst of their work; they hear his voice and obey. In what ways—in the midst of the work week—how attentively will we listen out for the voice of the Lord?
Father in heaven, you sent Jesus to proclaim your kingdom and to bring hope and salvation to all people. Like Simon and Andrew and James and John, let me be attentive to your call and follow you at work and at rest. This is your Son, the one you love and in whom you are well pleased. Give me the grace, Lord, to see the love between you and your Son and the invitation by the Son to imitate him in perfectly accomplishing your will. Lord, let me hear and follow as you ask me to come after you. Jesus, I trust in you!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “The voice of the LORD is over the waters, the LORD, over vast waters. The voice of the LORD is mighty; the voice of the LORD is majestic. The Lord will bless his people with peace."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 3:15-16, 21-22)
After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
The people are filled with excitement and expectation about John the Baptist and asking themselves if he might be the Messiah. John responds by making clear that his baptism is with water but that there is one mightier coming after him who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. After being baptized by John and as Jesus is praying, the heavens open and the Holy Spirit descends upon him in a form like a dove. The voice from heaven is that of the Father who is well pleased in his beloved Son. In the second reading, we hear that God anointed his Son with the Holy Spirit and power. And as prophesied by Isaiah, the LORD is well pleased in his servant, Jesus, the incarnation of the New Covenant. "I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand."
God, help me throughout the day be aware that you are present as I dwell on the baptism of your only begotten Son. In meditating on your love for Jesus, I think also of the love Zechariah had for his son John, who says of him in his canticle: "You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High." In the powerful, affirming love of a father for a son is a glimpse of your filial love for us as your children. Christ accomplished in his baptism the forgiveness of our sins and the way to eternal life as your sons and daughters. In calling your Son for the victory of justice, you have freed us and opened the heavens so that we always give to you the glory due your name. "Give to the LORD, you sons of God, give to the LORD glory and praise."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy upon their couches; Let the high praises of God be in their throats. This is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia. The Lord takes delight in his people."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (John 3:22-30)
John answered and said, “No one can receive anything except what has been given from heaven. You yourselves can testify that I said that I am not the Christ, but that I was sent before him. The one who has the bride is the bridegroom; the best man, who stands and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made complete. He must increase; I must decrease.”
As Jesus baptizes with his disciples in the region of Judea, the disciples of John the Baptist tell him that Jesus is baptizing and that everyone is coming to him. John replies to them with great humility, bringing to unity his followers and the followers of Jesus. John recognizes in Jesus the fulfillment of his role as the "best man," the one who would prepare the way of the Lord. He delights in it. "So this joy of mine has been made complete." At the heart of his joy is giving glory to the Lord. "He must increase; I must decrease."
God, help me follow the example of John's humility in attributing every good gift to you. In receiving what you gave him, John made the way to Jesus clear to all who heard him. Give me the grace today to respond to the vocation and purpose you gave me. As the Catechism makes clear about human freedom and cooperation with your grace, let me understand what you have called me to. It says: "All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity." Just as John understood that as Jesus increased, he must decrease, give me wisdom to discern how to bring about the fullness and perfection of your will, the source of every good gift.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: “From fraud and violence he shall redeem them, and precious shall their blood be in his sight. May they be prayed for continually; day by day shall they bless him. R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 4:14-22)
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
In the town where he grew up, Jesus goes according to his custom to the synagogue on the sabbath and there begins his public ministry. He fulfills the scripture passage of Isaiah. The Spirit of the Lord is upon him; he is anointed to bring hope to the poor; he is sent to bring liberty to the captives, sight to the blind, "and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord." Perfectly accomplishing the will of the Father as the Messiah, Jesus does all of this and invites us to be sons and daughters in his mission of loving and serving one another with the love of the Father who, as John said, loved us first. Today, in our earthly lives, we can ask how we live out the values of the kingdom of God.
God, help me understand that it was the Messiah, Jesus Christ your Son, who said in the synagogue, “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” John said, "Beloved, we love God because he first loved us." I know, Lord, you call me to obey your commandments by loving others, freeing them, and bringing God-centered gladness and sightedness to fellow sinners. Let me hold on to the importance of this when loving others is difficult. But let me take to heart that you loved me first, and that any good I accomplish will come from that gift you give to me. It is you, Lord, who liberate and free me to receive and give away your love to others. "O God," the psalmist sings, "with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king’s son."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out, and the afflicted when he has no one to help him. He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor; the lives of the poor he shall save. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 6:45-52)
But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out. They had all seen him and were terrified. But at once he spoke with them, “Take courage, it is I, do not be afraid!” He got into the boat with them and the wind died down.
Taking place immediately after the Feeding of the Five Thousand, the account of Jesus walking on water emphasizes that the apostles did not yet understand the divinity of Jesus. Mark ends the passage with this declaration about his closest followers: "They were completely astounded. They had not understood the incident of the loaves. On the contrary, their hearts were hardened." Although they had witnessed a miracle during the day, their hearts remained in the dark, haunted by looming fears. At this moment, Jesus appears to them, in the fourth watch of the night, between darkest night and first light. Calming the wind and the hearts of the apostles, Jesus encourages them and replaces fear with hope and unbelief with belief.
God, as a new day begins, help me take on its challenges and anxieties with courage and trust in Jesus. Mark says that as the wind was against the apostles, Jesus came walking toward them and got into the boat with them. No great leap of imagination is needed to see that Jesus is in the boat today in the Church and in the sacraments. And Jesus is present in the people I will meet today. "Yet, if we love one another," John says, "God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us." Lord, let me take heart in your presence today and trust in your mercy; take pity on me and rescue me. Jesus, I trust in you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “The LORD said to me, 'You are my Son; this day I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession.'" I will give you all the nations for an inheritance.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 6:34-44)
Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; he also divided the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied.
Late in the day, Jesus sees the vast crowd following him like sheep without a shepherd. Moved with pity for them, he begins teaching them when the disciples approach him and ask Jesus to dismiss the crowd so they can go to nearby villages to find something to eat. He tells them, "Give them some food yourselves." When the disciples tell him that it would be impossible to buy the amount of food needed, Jesus asks how many loaves there are. Taking the five loaves they give him, Jesus prays, says a blessing, and breaks the loaves and fishes. At this, Mark simply says, "They all ate and were satisfied." After they ate, the disciples picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments from the crowd of five thousand. Why does Jesus tell the disciples to give the crowd some food themselves? It seems in that question, he is teaching the disciples to rely not on themselves but on the word of God, as we hear in the Gospel according to John, when he says, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."
God, help me understand the motivation of Jesus when he sees the crowd and feels great compassion for them. Why is it that the way Jesus first feeds the crowd is by teaching them many things? The disciples see the practical need; it is getting dark and the people need to go find food. Jesus sees the spiritual need that goes beyond physical hunger. Satisfying the hunger of the crowd takes place as the Son of God blesses the food and looks to you in prayer. In his word, just as in his crucifixion, what is broken is not divided and diminished but multiplied and increased in superabundance. Give me the grace, Lord, to trust in the food that you give for the life of the world in Jesus Christ your Son. Give us this day our daily bread.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “The LORD said to me, 'You are my Son; this day I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession.'" I will give you all the nations for an inheritance.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 4:12-17, 23-25)
His fame spread to all of Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases and racked with pain, those who were possessed, lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them.
"Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." With these words, Jesus picks up where John left off after he had been arrested. The mission of Jesus begins to unfold in Galilee as he teaches in the synagogues, proclaims the kingdom of God, and cures every disease and illness. In doing this, Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah: "Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen." And the light he brings is healing to those whose illnesses are physical, mental, and spiritual. He continues to do that today.
God, give me the grace and wisdom to do as great crowds did in following Jesus. The Gospel acclamation says, "Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people." Strengthen my faith, Lord. Nourish me through the sacraments, especially the Eucharist, where you are truly present—body and blood, soul and divinity. Be my light in the darkness, and throughout the day let me trust in your merciful care and power to heal mind, body, and soul.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out, and the afflicted when he has no one to help him. He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor; the lives of the poor he shall save. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 2:1-12)
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.”
From the responsorial psalm: “Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; His right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (John 1:29-34)
John testified further, saying, "I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from the sky and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God."
John the Baptist identifies Jesus as the Lamb of God. At his appearance, John states the mission and identity of Jesus so that he is made known to Israel, and as John testifies, that he is proclaimed as the Son of God. Although a cousin to Jesus, John says "I did not know him." Trusting God, the one who sent him, John recognizes Jesus not from human senses but from divine revelation as the Holy Spirit descends and remains on Jesus. . . . [more]
From the responsorial psalm: “Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; His right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (John 1:19-28)
John answered them, “I baptize with water; but there is one among you whom you do not recognize, the one who is coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.” This happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing."
Today's Gospel begins with priests and Levites questioning John the Baptist about his identity. John denies that he is the Christ or Elijah. When they ask him if he is the Prophet, he says no, and they then ask him who he is so they can share the answer with those who sent them. John replies, “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert . . . .
From the responsorial psalm: “May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation. May God bless us in his mercy."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 2:16-21)
All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.
Luke describes what happens after the angel appears to the shepherds and says, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people." In obedience to the angel's message, the shepherds travel in haste to Bethlehem to find Jesus. . . . (more)
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From the responsorial psalm: “Give to the LORD, you families of nations, give to the LORD glory and praise; give to the LORD the glory due his name! Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 2:36-40)
There was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.
After the presentation of Jesus in the temple, the prophetess Anna comes forward to Joseph and Mary and, as John tells us, "gave thanks to God . . .
From the responsorial psalm: “Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; your children like olive plants around your table. Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 2:41-52)
When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he said to them.
Luke tells us the story of Jesus at the age of twelve during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with his parents for the Feast of the Passover. After the feast, Mary and Joseph begin their journey home, assuming Jesus was with them in the caravan of travelers. Returning to Jerusalem,
Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs
From the responsorial psalm: “Had not the LORD been with us— When men rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us alive, When their fury was inflamed against us. Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler's snare."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 2:13-18)
When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him." Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt.
Matthew describes the events surrounding the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt to escape King Herod's decree to kill all male infants in Bethlehem. An attempt to maintain absolute control, . . .
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From the responsorial psalm: "Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God. I will rejoice and be glad because of your mercy. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 10:17-22)
Jesus said to his disciples: "Beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."
Jesus describes to the disciples the truth about discipleship, which Saint Stephen experiences as the first martyr in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles. In saying "Beware of men," Jesus contrasts human sin with supernatural grace. . .
A merry and blessed Christmas to you and your family!
From the responsorial psalm: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:67-79)
So they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child.
Luke unfolds the events following the birth of Jesus and the response of the shepherds who are visited by angels. After the angels leave, the shepherds say, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place." They go in haste to find find Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus lying in a manger, an invitation to all people through the shepherds to respond promptly to God's call. And the shepherds return, "glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them." In their eager response to do as the angel proclaims to them, to witness "an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." Hearing their story and seeing them, "Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart." In the story of the Nativity, God invites to do the same, to reflect on these things in our heart and to examine our own responses to God's message, sharing in and sharing with others, the joy of Christ's birth.
God, all praise and glory to you for sending your Son to us as a newborn savior, lying in a manger, the Word made flesh for the life of the world. In him, your love is made Incarnate. Blessed be your holy Name. Blessed be the Name of Jesus. Blessed be the Mother of my Lord, Mary most holy. Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse. Blessed are you in your angels and in your saints. The announcement to the shepherds is for the whole world. As Saint John Paul II prayed during midnight Mass: "Look upon us, eternal Son of God, who took flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary! All humanity, with its burden of trials and troubles, stands in need of you. Stay with us, living Bread which came down from heaven for our salvation! Stay with us forever!”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the Gospel acclamation: "O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice: come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:67-79)
"You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, to give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins. In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Today's Gospel picks up where yesterday's passage left off. The friends and neighbors of Zechariah and Elizabeth take to heart the events surrounding the birth and naming of John the Baptist, asking, "What, then, will this child be?"
Today's antiphon: "O Emmanuel, our King and Giver of Law: come to save us, Lord our God!" (Isaiah 7:14)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:57-66)
But they answered her, "There is no one among your relatives who has this name." So they made signs, asking his father what he wished him to be called. He asked for a tablet and wrote, "John is his name," and all were amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God.
Neighbors and relatives who are close to Elizabeth and Zechariah witness the blessings and mercy of the Lord at the birth of John. Luke tells us that they rejoiced with Elizabeth. Yet, as close as they are, they remain outside looking in as God's plan unfolds before them.
Today's antiphon: O King of all nations and keystone of the Church: come and save man, whom you formed from the dust! (Isaiah 9:5; 2:4)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:39-45)
"Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"
At the Visitation, Elizabeth responds to Mary's greeting with these words and with a question. She tells Mary that at the sound of her greeting, the infant John leaped in her womb. And then she asks a question, which is direct and at the same time full of meditation and wonder. Elizabeth is undoubtedly one of the first to ponder how it is that the Blessed Virgin, the mother of the Lord . . . .
Today's antiphon: O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice: come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death. (Isaiah 9:1)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:39-45)
"Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."
Luke narrates Mary's visit to her cousin Elizabeth after the Annunciation. It reveals the significance of Mary’s pregnancy and Elizabeth's recognition of Jesus’ divine role even before his birth. Mary travels to visit Elizabeth in haste, expressing the level of joy she must have felt in the angel Gabriel's message and the fulfillment of it in her pregnancy. In responding to Mary's greeting, Luke tells us that Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out in a loud voice, "Most blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" Mary exudes the joy of faith in the Lord; Elizabeth affirms it, saying "Blessed are you who believed." From these two faithful women, God's tender compassion begins to break through darkness and the shadow of death, a dawn from on high that will illuminate the entire world.
God, by my faith and in my participation of the sacraments, help me be a means of bringing Christ to others. Mary visited Elizabeth, bearing your Son with overwhelming joy. Through fervent participation in my faith, help me know and share the same joy in carrying within me the Incarnate Word. In the Song of Songs is a kind of irony reflecting your mastery over nature, that in the dead of winter and at the longest night, the readings speak of new light that dawns from on high, bringing the peace that only Christ gives: "For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land." Splendor of eternal light, shine on us and on the whole world.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Today's antiphon, O Clavis David (O Key of David): O Key of David, opening the gates of God’s eternal Kingdom: come and free the prisoners of darkness! (Isaiah 9:6; 22:22)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:26-38)
"He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his Kingdom there will be no end."
The angel Gabriel visits the Virgin Mary to announce that she will conceive the Son of God. In the Annunciation, he describes Jesus as great, the Son of the Most High, and that he will inherit the throne of David and reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will have no end. Seeing that Mary is troubled, the angel says to her: "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God." He tells her that the Holy Spirit will come upon her, and the power of the Most High will overshadow her in the conception. Over any plans Mary could have made for her life, God's will for Mary is that she fulfills his promises to all of humanity through the birth of Jesus. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Mary says yes.
God, help me realize throughout the day that my role in doing your will has Mary as a perfect example. It is to say yes to you. Help me have the conviction that just as with Mary, the Holy Spirit comes at my consent with overshadowing love. In order for me to say yes, I need an attentiveness to faith that listens out for you in the thrum and turmoil of the day. The psalmist prays, "Let the Lord enter; he is the king of glory." And you do enter with superabundant love, as when Gabriel reveals that Elizabeth would bear a son who would prepare the way of Jesus. Make clear to me your love, Lord, your desire to enter.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Today's antiphon, O Radix Jesse: O Root of Jesse’s stem, sign of God’s love for all his people: come to save us without delay! (Isaiah 1:1; 11:10)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:5-25)
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John."
Luke recounts the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth. During Zechariah's service in the sanctuary of the temple, the angel Gabriel appears to him, causing Zechariah to be troubled and afraid to announce the birth of their son, John the Baptist. The angel describes John’s role as a great prophet who will prepare the way for the Lord and "turn the hearts of fathers toward children and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous." When Zechariah expresses doubt and fear, he is made mute until the fulfillment of the angel's words in the birth of John. Elizabeth then conceives and in seclusion delights in what the Lord has done for her in his divine intervention.
God, the O Antiphon for today ends with "come to save us without delay!" It brings to mind the familiar prayer said in the Liturgy of the Hours, "O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me." Keep my faith supple, Lord, able to discern your works even as I wrestle with doubt and fear. Not by my own power can I save myself, Lord, but by you alone, the giver of all good gifts. Gabriel tells Zechariah what the outcome of John's consecrated birth will bring: "And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord." Help me be attentive to what you bring to fruition today; let me be a witness to the joy and gladness that follow as you come to my assistance.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Today's antiphon, O Adonai: O Leader of the House of Israel, giver of the Law to Moses on Sinai: come to rescue us with your mighty power! (Isaiah 11:4–5; 33:22)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 1:18-25)
Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly. Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus gives us a glimpse into Joseph's submission to God's will. Under the circumstances, his intention was to divorce Mary quietly until the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. Among his first words after identifying Joseph by his Davidic lineage, the angel tells him not to be afraid. Surely, he must have been greatly relieved—overjoyed—to hear that the woman he loved, to whom he is betrothed, remained a virgin. Matthew tells us that all this took place to fulfill what had been said through the prophet, "Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel." When Joseph awakes, he does what the angel commands him and takes Mary into his home. Jesus, Son of God and son of the Virgin Mary, is born to the world fully divine and fully human.
God, help me see Joseph as a model of obedience to your will. Although silent and docile, Joseph speaks clearly as he moves from deciding to divorce Mary quietly to taking his wife into his home as the angel commanded. The transformation he experienced is one that I can seek today and every day, allowing my plans to become overshadowed by God's. The plans I make, the things I decide, are bound ultimately to fail unless I allow you to do your will through me. "If the Lord does not build the house," the psalmist prays, "in vain do its builders labor." Give me the grace, Lord, to know your will and carry it out joyfully.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Today's antiphon, O Sapientia: O Wisdom of our God Most High, guiding creation with power and love: come to teach us the path of knowledge! (Isaiah 11:2–3; 28:29)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 1:1-17)
Eleazar became the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.
Presenting the genealogy of Jesus Christ, Matthew traces the lineage of Jesus from Abraham through David to Joseph, the husband of Mary. By his direct connection from Abraham and David, from David to the exile in Babylon, and from the exile to Jesus, Matthew provides a genealogy that establishes Jesus as the Messiah in fulfilling all of God's promises to the patriarchs. These are the credentials of Jesus the Messiah, establishing his identity. In other words, Jesus is in truth who he claims to be. By including a long list of names, forty-two generations, Matthew provides not only a historical account but also the context of Jesus’ birth within all the breadth of salvation history.
God, you are Wisdom Most High who guides all of creation by your power and love. Teach me the path to knowledge of you. What is there in human wisdom that could compare with yours? Give me the grace to hear and receive your wisdom through scriptures, through the Holy Spirit, and through the sacraments of the Church. You are love itself. Guide me today in your love and make me your instrument; teach me to depend on you, trusting in the way you lead.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; teach me your paths, Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior. Teach me your ways, O Lord.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 21:23-27)
Jesus said to them in reply, “I shall ask you one question, and if you answer it for me, then I shall tell you by what authority I do these things. Where was John’s baptism from? Was it of heavenly or of human origin?”
Jesus is teaching in the temple when the chief priests and elders approach and question him. He responds with another question. The chief priests and elders deliberate among themselves as they face a dilemma. Through his questioning, Jesus reveals their hypocrisy and the complexities they wrestle with in recognizing divine authority, setting the stage for the continuing conflict that would lead to Jesus’ passion and death. Ultimately, the leaders say, “We do not know.” This reflects their inability to see the truth about John and Jesus.
God, help me see clearly in these remaining days of Advent that true authority rests in Jesus Christ your Son. The false authority of consumerism and innumerable media distractions would have me believe I can have at will a joyous Christmas season, and these falsehoods put Christmas ahead of Advent and not the other way. Give me the grace to recognize my true longing for Jesus, who comes as a child in a manger and definitively at the Second Coming on a cloud of glory with the authority to bring a new heaven and a new earth. Come, Lord Jesus, come!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "God indeed is my savior; I am confident and unafraid. My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior. With joy you will draw water at the fountain of salvation. Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you is the great and Holy One of Israel."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 3:10-18)
Now the people were filled with expectation, and all were asking in their hearts whether John might be the Christ. John answered them all, saying, “I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming. I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire."
Today we hear the voice of the one who prepares the way of the Lord. Crowds come to John the Baptist asking what they should do. John tells them to be generous with the poor, not to be greedy, and to treat others and oneself justly. The good news that John preaches to the people fills them with hope and expectation, but John is not the Messiah. John baptizes with water, but one mightier than himself will come. The one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit and fire will, as John says, "gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” John prepares the way for Jesus, the one Zephaniah speaks of in the first reading: "The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior; he will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love."
"God is indeed my savior," the psalmist prays, "I am confident and unafraid." How is it, Lord, that I can make this prayer my prayer? Discouragement comes, but I hear in the first reading don't be afraid and "be not discouraged." Saint Paul recognizes anxiety by naming it, not denying it, "but in everything," he says, "by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God." Lord, you know me and know my needs. Grant me the peace and joy of knowing you are in my midst, a mighty savior who is nearer than I can comprehend. Throughout the day, let me rest with this and trust in it: "My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior." Come, Holy Spirit, come!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Once again, O LORD of hosts, look down from heaven, and see; Take care of this vine, and protect what your right hand has planted, the son of man whom you yourself made strong. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 17:9a, 10-13)
As they were coming down from the mountain, the disciples asked Jesus, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" He said in reply, "Elijah will indeed come and restore all things; but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased. So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands." Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.
Jesus speaks to the disciples immediately after his transformation on the mountain, where Moses and Elijah appear to him. According to Jewish belief, Elijah would appear again before the coming of the Messiah. Jesus makes clear that Elijah has appeared again, referring to John the Baptist and his message of repentance and baptism. Just as people failed to listen to John, they will fail to listen to Jesus, rejecting him and putting him to death on a cross. In indicating that the disciples understand Jesus, Matthew expresses in his account that John brings to fulfillment the role of Elijah in the continuity between the greatest of prophets and the mission of Jesus.
God, help me understand more deeply that regardless of what reality looks like on the surface, you have a plan. Jesus reveals this to the disciples, and in revealing it to them, reveals it to me. As the psalmist prays, in turning to you, we see your face and are saved. "Take care of this vine, and protect what your right hand has planted. . . ." In today's Gospel, Peter, James, and John had just witnessed the Transfiguration, and they were full of questions. In pondering your glory, Lord, help me turn more and more to your saving power, your plan for me; let me see your face. Saint John of the Cross, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 11:16-19)
Jesus said to the crowds: "To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, 'We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.'"
Jesus describes to the crowds two depictions of the kingdom of God. In neither of them do people of his generation participate in the revelation of God's presence. They regarded John's ascetism as insane and the full participation of Jesus within the community as sinful and indulgent. That leaves for them by their own choice an existence in limbo, neither here nor there. "But wisdom is vindicated by her works," Jesus tells them. And Isaiah, speaking the word of the LORD, says, "If you would hearken to my commandments, your prosperity would be like a river, and your vindication like the waves of the sea." To be forgotten by God is to choose to live apart from him in an oblivion that willfully stands outside of his presence.
God, help me listen to your commandments. As you say through Isaiah, teach me what is for my good, and lead me on the way I should go. If the hope of prosperity isn't enough to lead me on or seems uncertain, give me the grace to desire always to remain in your presence. You, the Holy One of Israel, sent Jesus your Son as incarnate wisdom to lead us out of darkness and into the light of your face. Isn't that enough to follow where he goes? Saint Lucy, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed are you, daughter, by the Most High God, above all the women on earth; and blessed be the LORD God, the creator of heaven and earth. You are the highest honor of our race."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:26-38)
But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God."
When the angel Gabriel visits Mary, she has been from the moment of her conception, full of grace. Mary is troubled to receive the message that she will bear a son, that she will name Jesus, and that he will be called Son of the Most High. A virgin, Mary questions how this can be, and Gabriel explains to her that the power of the Most High will overshadow her. In Mary's fiat, accepting God's will without fully understanding how his overshadowing will unfold, we have an example of one who is full of Grace and accepts God's will, letting it be done according to his word. Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Mother, said this to Juan Diego and comes to all of us through his account of the apparitions: "Hear me and understand well, my little son, that nothing should frighten or grieve you. Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who is your Mother?"
God, help me trust you through the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Troubles come, troubling events unfold. Yet, Mary shows me how to respond to all the troubles the world can mount upon me in full force. Because she trusts in you and is completely obedient to your will, she is confident in your love and able to say, "Let not your heart be disturbed." And so that I can ask her to intercede for me in full confidence, who does Mary say that she is? In her words, she is "in person, the ever-virgin Holy Mary, Mother of God." Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. O bless the Lord, my soul!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 11:28-30)
Jesus said to the crowds: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."
The Lord who invites us to come to him when we are burdened and need rest is the same one in whom Isaiah tells us, "They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength. . . . They will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint." And this is the same one we hear of in the Gospel acclamation: "Behold, the Lord comes to save his people; blessed are those prepared to meet him." So when the labor and burden and weariness do come, we have a source of infinite strength in the Lord who asks us to take up his yoke and find rest.
God, it would seem easy for me to remember to come to you today as the day wears on and I grow tired. But it's often the opposite. I try harder to make the best of time, eagerly using the gifts and opportunities you give me, just as I should. Yet, why is it so hard to pause and allow myself to learn from you and to recognize that if I let you, you will be beside me to consecrate every effort and to consecrate time itself as your work unfolds? Give me the grace to pause throughout the day, attentive to the way and the truth and the life who invites me to rest in him.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and what fills it resound; let the plains be joyful and all that is in them! Then let all the trees of the forest rejoice. The Lord our God comes with power."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 18:12-14)
Jesus said to his disciples: "What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost."
In the familiar Parable of the Lost Sheep, Jesus sets an example for the disciples to seek out the sheep that go astray and bring back what was lost with great joy. By asking the opinion of the disciples, and all who hear him, the hypothetical question engages the missionary muscle of the disciples and puts them in the place of their master and teacher. In doing as the Good Shepherd does, the disciples follow God's will and act through his grace so that not one of these little ones will be lost.
God, help me understand the compassion of Jesus in seeking out the lost sheep. It is both a glimpse into your infinite mercy and example of how to care for others who stray from you, "the little ones." Isaiah describes the same shepherd who comes to rule us with tenderness and strength: "Here is your God! . . . Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, and leading the ewes with care." Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 1:26-38)
Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."
"Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you." With these words, the angel Gabriel addresses Mary, telling her not to be afraid and announcing that she will bear a son and name him Jesus, the Son of the Most High. Mary asks how this is possible since she has no relations with a man, and Gabriel explains to her that the "Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you." Saying "Nothing will be impossible for God," Gabriel then hears Mary's great fiat as she says, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word." The Catechism of the Catholic Church says this about Mary's Immaculate Conception: "Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, 'full of grace' through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception."
God, strengthen my faith. In the Annunciation, your overshadowing love through the Holy Spirit makes possible the redemption of all who call on the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God and son of Mary. Freely choosing to do your will, Mary becomes the vessel of your incarnation that brings to fulfillment all of your promises. If I remember only two lessons from the Annunciation, help me always be unafraid to say yes to your will; and in doing your will, help me live courageously in the realization that through your overshadowing love, nothing is impossible. Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Although they go forth weeping, carrying the seed to be sown, They shall come back rejoicing, carrying their sheaves. The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 3:1-6)
John went throughout the whole region of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:
A voice of one crying out in the desert:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
Every valley shall be filled
and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
The winding roads shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth,
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
Luke couches the appearance of John the Baptist within a historical context. Before Jesus entered human history, John's ministry was that of repentance and forgiveness of sins to prepare the way of the Lord. Within that context, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah. In that coming, God breaks into human history through the voice of the greatest of prophets who sets the stage so that "all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
God, help me understand today's readings for the second Sunday of Advent. Help me hear the prayer of Saint Paul as he writes in his letter what he desires for all who hear the voice of Christ: "that your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value." Right here and right now, Lord, in the context of a specific time and place, your word comes to me. The winding road of the present day lies before me. With your grace, work through me to make straight a path and prepare for your coming.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He tells the number of the stars; he calls each by name. Blessed are all who wait for the Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 9:27-31)
Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus, "Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: 'The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give."
Jesus sends out the Twelve to do what he has been doing around all the towns and villages: teaching, proclaiming the Gospel, and curing all manner of disease and illness. Moved to pity at the sight of the crowds, Jesus sees the need to give authority to the Twelve "to cure every disease and illness" and to drive out unclean spirits. This is the same Lord, responsive to every one of our needs, that Isaiah tells us about in the first reading: "The Lord will give you the bread you need and the water for which you thirst."
God, help me today see in others what Jesus saw in the crowds. His reason for compassion was because "they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd." Help me be obedient to Jesus' command to go to the lost sheep without counting the cost. Jesus models Christian discipleship not only for the apostles but for all who hear his call to remain faithful to the Church in proclaiming the kingdom. With your authority, Lord, through baptism and the sacraments, give me the grace to proclaim in my words and actions that your kingdom is now at hand. Saint Ambrose, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD. The Lord is my light and my salvation."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 9:27-31)
As Jesus passed by, two blind men followed him, crying out, “Son of David, have pity on us!” When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” And their eyes were opened.
After Jesus gives sight to the blind men, he sternly warns them not to tell anyone about the miracle. But they tell their story anyway, and word of Jesus spreads throughout the region. By asking the blind men if they believe he can heal them, Jesus invites them into a relationship with him just as the angel Gabriel invited Mary into a relationship with God. She said, "May it be done to me according to your word." As Jesus touches the eyes of the blind men, he says, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” God, the giver of all good gifts, invites us to receive his mercy; in turn, we give him our trust and faith in him and are made whole.
God, it is difficult for me to say "Let it be done." I would rather go by my own vision diminished by life experience and by sin than to have complete faith and trust in you. Yet, in complete trust, the blind men said yes to you and were given sight to see but greater still the supernatural vision of your love and mercy for them. I wonder if I have to be a bit reckless in the way a child might be reckless--unaware of self-preservation and not taking myself so seriously. Is it like this: within reason, one way is as good as another as long as I don't turn away from you? Or "Love God and do what you will," as Saint Augustine said. Open my eyes, Lord, my light and my salvation. Saint Nicholas, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
FREE RESOURCE🔹https://quarryapps.gumroad.com/l/jojqau Lectio Divina: A Journey into God’s Word. From the responsorial psalm: "Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 7:21, 24-27)
Jesus said to his disciples: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven."
Jesus compares the lives of those who are obedient to the Father with those who are not. Obedience to the Father's will is made up of listening and doing. When storms come in full force—winds, rain, floods—the house built on rock will not collapse. When the same happens to a house built on sand, Jesus says, "it collapsed and was completely ruined." Hearing and responding to God's will is the foundation for the house built on rock. Isaiah tells us more about keeping faith and remaining in the Lord: "Trust in the LORD forever! For the LORD is an eternal Rock."
God, help me trust now and forever in you, the eternal rock. When storms come, help me listen to the words of your Son and act on them as I do your will. In doing your will, I work toward entering the eternal kingdom of heaven even as I enter it in the present moment. Keep me attentive to your will and not self-absorbed even as I call out, "Lord, Lord." Your will, not mine. To listen for your voice in silence is worth more than many anguished petitions although I know you hear every one of my prayers. Help me today, Lord, have childlike trust in discerning and acting on your will.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 15:29-37)
Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" "Seven," they replied, "and a few fish." He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over–seven baskets full.
The great crowds come to listen listen to Jesus. With them come people who have all sorts of debilitations and illnesses, and Jesus cures them. The deformed are made whole, the lame walk, and the blind see. Because of this, Matthew tells us, "they glorified the God of Israel." As he looks at the crowd, he is moved with pity for them because they have had nothing to eat for three days. The disciples question where they will get enough bread to satisfy the crowd. The ending to this familiar Gospel account is well known. Yet, the story goes on as the same Lord who destroyed death forever spreads a table for us in the sight of our foes. In the Eucharist, Christ prepares a feast of "rich food and pure, choice wines." What is a fitting response to this invitation? "Behold, the Lord comes to save his people," the responsorial psalm says, "blessed are those prepared to meet him."
God, how little separates the people then with people today? Considering my own brokenness and sin, what will be my response to the invitation to receive healing from Jesus, to share in the superabundance of blessings in this day alone? Jesus also speaks to me as he speaks to the disciples: "How many loaves do you have?" It's as if he is saying, "What little you have, give me. I will bless it and break it; in breaking it, I will not divide it but multiply it a hundredfold." From on high, he asks the same of me, that I come to him in brokenness to be made whole and be made ready for the banquet of eternal life. Help me, God, remember to come to the feet of Jesus to bring him what I have to give.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king's son; He shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment. Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 10:21-24)
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him."
Jesus rejoices not in knowledge gained through human learning and experience but to what the Father reveals. To be wise and learned is to observe the ways of the world and predict outcomes but to be childlike in faith is to share in the relationship between the Father and the Son. The knowledge gained through learning and worldly wisdom is good in itself but is worth nothing compared to the knowledge Jesus is able to reveal to us because the Father has handed all things over to him. This is why Jesus rejoices and expresses gratitude in revealing this truth as he does his Father's will. With childlike faith, God can accomplish what the wise and the learned can only hope to glimpse.
God, help me understand with humility the role of every good gift of experience and learning you give me. Certain dimensions of wisdom and knowledge simply do not come through being learned and knowledgeable. Give me the grace to be open to what Jesus offers, to what Isaiah calls "a Spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD." The Gospel acclamation says, "Behold, our Lord shall come with power; he will enlighten the eyes of his servants." Enlighten my eyes, Lord, as I strain to see what human comprehension fails to reveal. Saint Francis Xavier, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the Gospel acclamation: "Come and save us, LORD our God; Let your face shine upon us, that we may be saved."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 8:5-11)
When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him and appealed to him, saying, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully." He said to him, "I will come and cure him." The centurion said in reply, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed."
Although Jesus is willing to go to the servant's house, the centurion feels unworthy to have him under his roof. He asks Jesus to simply speak a word of healing, drawing on his experience as a leader and as one who leads others. He trusts the authority of Jesus and has faith in him. Jesus is amazed by this and turns to those following him, witnesses to the centurion's faith, and says, "Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I say to you, many will come from the east and the west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven." We hear also in the first reading the hope of having the Lord enter under our roof, as Isaiah prays, "O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD!"
God, let me follow the centurion's example of faith and trust in the word of Jesus to heal me. In the Gospel, the servant is "lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully." I am sure there will be moments throughout the day when I am completely stuck, stifled by uncertainty and wondering where you are and how to move toward you. I may be paralyzed in that moment, but you are not. Give me the grace to remember this prayer and bear witness to your mercy: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Good and upright is the LORD; thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, and teaches the humble his way. To you, O Lord, I lift my soul."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 21:25-28, 34-36)
“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap. For that day will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth. Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the tribulations that are imminent and to stand before the Son of Man.”
On this first Sunday of Advent, we hear Jesus telling the disciples about the final judgement, the coming in a cloud of the Son of Man with power and great glory. At his coming, signs on earth and in the cosmos will put nations in dismay and frighten people to death. Stand erect and raise your heads, Jesus tells the disciples, because our redemption is at hand. Before that day comes, Jesus says, remain vigilant, keep from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life (another kind of drunkenness that leads to the other). Jesus calls that day an assault and not to be caught by surprise by it like a trap. Just as God was present to the wandering Israelites in a pillar of cloud, Jesus will come again in power and great glory to judge the living and the dead. Jesus asks us to pray that we are prepared for his return.
God, at the beginning of this Advent set me on a path of vigilance and joyful expectation at the coming of Jesus. The Son of Mary is the Son of God, who came into the world as an infant and will come again in a cloud of power and glory. Give me the grace throughout Advent to remain hopeful in the fulfillment of your kingdom—not afraid, not anxious, an not absorbed in distractions. Strengthened by the real presence of Jesus to face the tribulations of daily life, keep me on a path to stand erect and raise my head as I meet my redeemer face to face. Show us, Lord, your love; and grant us your salvation.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul; The decree of the LORD is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple. The judgments of the Lord are true, and all of them are just."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 4:18-22)
As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him.
After calling Simon and Andrew, Jesus walks along the shore and calls James and John to follow him. Simon and Andrew are casting a net into the sea, and James and John are mending their nets. From his walk along the shore, Jesus calls four fisherman who would become the first apostles. In the first reading, Saint Paul also describes the consequences of responding to the call of the Lord. If we are called, we are sent so that "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." In choosing the apostles, Jesus exercises childlike faith in the Father's plan, and we glimpse the beauty and simplicity of the mind of Jesus as he carries out his will. Men who cast nets to catch fish would be good at catching souls to be brought into his Father's kingdom. Men who mend nets would make good stewards of the faith, loyal and persevering in times of adversity. The Gospel acclamation speaks to all of us in the voice of Jesus: "Come after me, says the Lord, and I will make you fishers of men."
Father in heaven, strengthen my faith today; help me hear and respond to your call. To be saved is to be sent out and made fishers of men. As Saint Paul says, it is to confess that Jesus is Lord and to believe in my heart that you raised him from the dead. The risen Christ, alive in the word, in the Eucharist, and in the sacraments of the Church accomplishes your will as he calls me to respond immediately and follow him. As I look to you with childlike faith, make clear to me what skills and talents I have to bring the words of Christ to one person at a time so that everyone who hears would believe in the Gospel and call on your name. Saint Andrew, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed they who dwell in your house! continually they praise you. Blessed the men whose strength you are! They go from strength to strength. Here God lives among his people."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 21:28)
Jesus told his disciples a parable. “Consider the fig tree and all the other trees. When their buds burst open, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near; in the same way, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near. Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”
Jesus describes what the coming of the kingdom of God looks like in a tender comparison of the fig tree and all other trees. It buds and yet is to bud. Already here and yet to be, its coming looks like all the opening up to warmth and new life that summer brings. The generation in which Jesus spoke these words has passed away, but the kingdom was present then, is here now, and is yet to open wider. "Jesus Christ," Saint Paul says, "is the same yesterday, and today, and forever."
God, just as the buds of the fig tree burst open, let the coming of your kingdom work in me to bud and bring new life. The psalmist prays "Here God lives among his people." Already here and yet to come, your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Let me remember throughout the day to radiate your love and praise you. Give me the opportunity to show others whose strength it is—from strength to strength—that finds a home in a soul that cries out for the living God. Lord, keep me in your kingdom as I seek to remain in you for eternal life.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Know that the LORD is God; he made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends. Blessed are they who are called to the wedding feast of the Lamb."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 21:20-28)
"And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. But when these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.”
Jesus describes to the disciples the destruction of Jerusalem, which took place in A.D. 70. Luke's Gospel, written several years later, relates what had already taken place. What Jesus predicts about Jerusalem gives assurance to the disciples that the final judgment will also be fulfilled. In Jesus' words, "a terrible calamity will come upon the earth and a wrathful judgment upon his people. . . . People will die of fright in anticipation of what is coming upon the world." As difficult as this time is to imagine—nations in dismay and terrible signs on earth and in the sky—Jesus will come with "power and great glory" as our hope and redeemer comes to call us to the "wedding feast of the Lamb."
God, in the midst of the greatest distress you are not absent to your people but here among us in the risen Christ, who will come again to judge the living and the dead. Help me trust in you and remain steadfast in the trials of daily life and in preparation for the fulfillment of your kingdom in the Second Coming of Jesus. Keep me in your care, Lord, let me be grateful for the many blessings of each day. On Thanksgiving Day, grant me the grace to be a means of hope and love, especially for those in distress who most need your mercy.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to rule the earth; He will rule the world with justice and the peoples with equity. Great and wonderful are all your works, Lord, mighty God!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 21:12-19)
"Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. You will even be handed over by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives.”
Jesus speaks to the crowd about the cost of discipleship. In following him and because of his name, Jesus tells the crowd, "It will lead you to your giving testimony." The wisdom in speaking that Jesus himself gives us does not come in silence and in keeping quiet but in giving testimony to him and in persevering. Because of his name, betrayal and hatred from those closest to us and those with worldly power is a real possibility. In this instance, our defense and freedom as disciples of Christ will not be through intellectual readiness or intensive training but through his supernatural gift of wisdom. “Great and wonderful are your works, Lord God almighty!" Lead us to giving testimony to you.
God, help me remain faithful to you today and every day. I survey what lies before me today and hope for greatness in doing your will yet feel small in recognizing the limitations of my own powers. Give me the opportunity today to give testimony to Jesus Christ your Son and the wisdom to act according to your will. The path of discipleship leads toward the grasp of persecutors who silence and kill those who proclaim your great and wonderful works. Yet, your wisdom speaks through those who love you, and not a hair on their head will be destroyed. Keep me in your care, Lord; secure me for eternal life.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Say among the nations: The LORD is king. He has made the world firm, not to be moved; he governs the peoples with equity. The Lord comes to judge the earth."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 21:5-11)
Then they asked him, “Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?” He answered, “See that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them! When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for such things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end.”
Jesus observes some people who are speaking about the beautifully adorned temple, its votive offerings, and its costly stones. When Jesus tells them that the days will come when nothing of the temple will be left, they question when this will happen. Turning their attention away from the visible world, Jesus begins to speak of a time and place apart from the present. As much as God is outside of time, so is the kingdom of God; it is already hear and yet to be. The deceiving voices who say they know when the time will come don't know. Jesus describes what could very well be the present with its wars and insurrections, nation fighting against nation, and global catastrophes. Yet, he also speaks specifically of the final judgment, a time of awesome sights and mighty signs, and as John describes, "sitting on the cloud one who looked like a son of man with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand." In turning our attention away from the present and toward the end times, Jesus invites us to behold a new creation and, ultimately, the realization of God's promises.
God, before the day unfolds at a pace I struggle to derive meaning from, let me remember what Jesus did in turning the gaze of the people away from the realities and things of the present. First, I hear Jesus say, "See that you not be deceived." Give me the grace, Lord, to hear you and tune out the voices draw attention to themselves and lead me away from you. Your kingdom is here right now, and Jesus is present today in the scriptures and in the sacraments. Give me wisdom to put my trust there and not take the things of this world or its agendas so seriously. The Gospel acclamation reminds in a few words what the gift of time on earth is for: "Remain faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD’s are the earth and its fullness; the world and those who dwell in it. For he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 21:1-4)
When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, “I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.”
The eyes of Jesus fall on the wealthy and the poor widow, but as the Son of God he knows their hearts and judges them perfectly. The value of the offerings from their surplus wealth and from her whole livelihood differ. Jesus begins by saying, "I tell you truly." In speaking truly, the author of reality describes the offerings as they really are and not as society views them. In what actually matters, the poor widow is spiritually wealthy and the wealthy people live a life of poverty. What gives value to the two small coins is the act of faith and trust in God that Jesus reads in her heart. In giving everything she has to God, she desires not what is vain but longs to see the face of God.
God, just as Jesus observes what the wealthy people and the widow put into the treasury, let me open my heart to him to see what I put in. Please guide me in recognizing the value of money and material things in relation to faith. If I have enough material wealth, help me see this as a gift that is returned to you as I give it away to others. Even more, what does it take for me to be confident enough to trust you with my whole livelihood? How willing am I to give you all of what I believe sustains and supports me? Strengthen me, Lord, to give glory to you as I offer to others the gifts you gave me first. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," Saint Paul reminds us, "who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens." Saint Catherine of Alexandria, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD is king, in splendor robed; robed is the LORD and girt about with strength. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (Jn 18:33b-37)
Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here." So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
Pilate is trying to ascertain what Jesus has done; that is, why Jesus has become his problem. Pilate knows Jesus is not King of the Jews, but he asks him to check whether Jesus is in his right mind. Jesus answers his question with a question: "Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?" Again, Pilate retreats from having to take responsibility for the fate of Jesus by saying that the chief priests handed Jesus over to him. Yet, as he tries to find a way in his power to deal with Jesus, he fails to see in Jesus, Truth made manifest, and gives Jesus over to the people to have him crucified. "What is truth?" he would ask Jesus, the way and the truth and the life in the flesh.
God, keep my mind clear today in knowing Truth as it is in the person of Jesus, King of the universe. Help me turn away from lies and the father of all lies, the evil one. Help me avoid the ways of the world that want nothing to do with you and to know the love you bestow on us in your kingdom as your children. Through Jesus who reigns in splendor at your right hand, Truth took on human form and brought us to truth and life in his passion, death, and resurrection as firstborn of the dead. Give me the grace to trust in the victory of Truth that we will all be witnesses to the glorious coming of Christ our King, that "every eye will see him, even those who pierced him." Your dominion, Lord, is an everlasting dominion; your kingship will not be destroyed.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 20:27-40)
"That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have answered well.” And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
The question the Sadducees pose to Jesus is this: If a woman marries seven brothers in succession after her first husband dies and then each of those husbands die, whose wife will the woman be? It is a hypothetical, even ridiculous question, meant to support the Sadducees's belief that there was no resurrection of the dead and that belief in it is absurd. But Jesus refocuses the question toward the truth and away from the diversion. Their question is about eternal life, and Jesus describes a life in the resurrection that goes beyond relationships and institutions. Jesus goes on to interpret Scripture, revealing to the Sadducees his role as the person of truth, God's only Son who would receive the breath of God in his resurrection.
God, what the psalmist makes clear I want to carry with me throughout the day: this life is a spiritual battle, and you train my hands for battle and my fingers for war. In the first reading, you brought to life with your breath the prophets who were tormented and persecuted. After they died, your "breath of life" entered them, and they heard your loud voice from heaven, saying, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven as their enemies looked on. What does this say to me today? Be my mercy and my fortress, Lord, my stronghold and deliverer, my shield in whom I trust.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "How sweet to my palate are your promises, sweeter than honey to my mouth! How sweet to my taste is your promise!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 19:45-48)
Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” And every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death, but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.
The religious leaders who close in on Jesus are frustrated as he teaches every day in the temple area and one day drives out those who are selling things. Just as the scroll in the first reading is sour to swallow, so are the words of Jesus to those who oppose him because of the people who hear his words and hang on them. Taken in, the the words of Jesus are sweet. "How sweet to my taste is your promise!" the psalmist sings. Yet, taking in the words sometimes puts us in bitter opposition to people and the rulers of the world who seek to impose their purpose, which is to put to death the Word made flesh. Hearing and following his voice, we remain in him.
God, help me understand what it means to "take and swallow" your word. Jesus, the Word incarnate, is present body and blood, soul and divinity, in the Eucharist. How sweet is the promise of Christ, fulfilled through his death and resurrection, and given every time I receive the Eucharist. To take and eat is not to envelop myself in a supernatural shield but to be strengthened to confront suffering and sorrow with divine sustenance and help. Give me the grace, Lord, to listen out for you and follow your voice; if I fail in that effort, stir in me the desire to recognize my state and turn again to you. Saint Cecilia, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: “Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy upon their couches; Let the high praises of God be in their throats. This is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia. The Lamb has made us a kingdom of priests to serve our God.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 19:41-44)
As Jesus drew near Jerusalem, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If this day you only knew what makes for peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides. They will smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
Not seeing the time of the visitation of the Lord, the people of Jerusalem rejected the Messiah, the true temple. They would see a few decades after the crucifixion of Jesus the destruction of the temple stone by stone under the Roman emperor Titus. Recognizing the consequences of the people’s rejection of him, Jesus weeps—not because of personal rejection but because of the people’s hardness of heart and inability to see the author of peace standing among them. Blind to the visitation of God and his divine authority in our lives, we are weak to the attack of enemies who seek to hem us in on all sides. Jesus, the worthy Lamb in the Book of Revelation, is alive in the Eucharist, commanding us as he commanded the Apostles: “Take and eat; this is my body.”
God, help me know you by the fruit of the Holy Spirit that Jesus desired for Jerusalem. Help me recognize that the person of Christ is what makes for peace. Even as the enemies within and without block my sight of you, you are there, waiting as I redirect my gaze. Although foes press on—I myself a sinner among them—open my eyes today to what I can easily lose sight of through hard-heartedness and lack of faith. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace. Mary, Tabernacle of the Most High, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Praise the LORD in his sanctuary, praise him in the firmament of his strength. Praise him for his mighty deeds, praise him for his sovereign majesty. Holy, holy, holy Lord, mighty God!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 19:11-28)
“A nobleman went off to a distant country to obtain the kingship for himself and then to return. He called ten of his servants and gave them ten gold coins and told them, ‘Engage in trade with these until I return.’ His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’"
In response to the people's belief that the kingdom of God would appear in Jerusalem on Jesus' approach to it, Jesus tells a parable about a nobleman who travels to a distant country to become king and then return. He gives ten servants each a gold coin to invest while he is away. Upon his return, the nobleman rewards the servants who made a profit with positions of authority, while the servant who hid his coin is punished. Not a parable about making wise financial decisions and how to achieve power, the parable Jesus tells expresses the gifts God gives us and how we respond to these spiritual realities. Just as the servants make the best of the gold coins they are given, so too Jesus invites us to make the best of our unique gifts in the present moment—returning to God what he gave us first.
God, help me today be faithful and diligent in serving you with the gifts and talents you have given me. Many priorities cry out for attention when only one thing is necessary. As the elders in heaven say, “Worthy are you, Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things; because of your will they came to be and were created.” Give me the grace to call to mind that your kingdom is yet to come but is already here. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Amid the practical realities of the day, help me remember that the day itself a gift of your supreme love, and more will be given. As I strive to do your will, I hope to hear at the end of every day, "Well done, good servant!" Teach me, Lord, to serve you well.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night. Those who are victorious I will feed from the tree of life."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 18:35-43)
As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” He shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!” The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me!”
The blind man in today's Gospel is a model of persistent prayer and expressing it in a way that catches God's attention. It is also a model of evangelization. The blind man shouts and calls out to Jesus to be heard. Although initially rebuking him, on seeing the blind man healed and giving glory to God, the same crowd who rebuked him turn around and give praise to God. The healing that takes place through his faith is a kind of multiplication of the loaves, where shared among others it multiplies many times over. A prerequisite for the blind man's healing is his lack of sight, his desire to see. This speaks to every person who lacks something in faith that love and repentance restore so that we can try again. As the Lord says in the first reading: "you have lost the love you had at first. Realize how far you have fallen. Repent, and do the works you did at first." The blind man gains sight; in his faith and miraculous healing, he gives us cause to give praise to God.
God, help me understand today's Gospel in light of the Gospel acclamation: "I am the light of the world, says the Lord; whoever follows me will have the light of life." Every day, Lord, there is reason to call out to you; I lose sight of you and stumble in the dark, realizing more and more that I am dependent on you for every good gift. In giving all thanks and glory to you for restoring in me the light of your love time after time—in prayer, at Mass, and in the sacraments—help make my faith in you a witness to others and a cause for them to give you praise.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot. I set the LORD ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. You are my inheritance, O Lord!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 13:24-32)
"Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. "But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
Jesus speaks to the disciples about the coming in glory of the Son of Man. At his coming, the stars will fall, the moon will no longer give light, and “the powers in the heavens will be shaken.” Echoing Daniel, who describes in apocalyptic language a “time unsurpassed distress,” Jesus conveys his return powerfully but also tenderly in terms of the fig tree branches becoming tender and sprouting leaves. “And then,” Jesus tells the disciples, “they will see 'the Son of Man coming in the clouds' with great power and glory” and that although heaven and earth pass away, his words—our inheritance of eternal life—will not pass away.
Father in heaven, teach me to be vigilant at all times for the return of your Son on a day and time I cannot know. In times of tribulation, help me call to mind your constant, tender care in leading me to you. In your presence is the path to life and the fullness of joy. Throughout the moments of this day, keep me in your presence and under your protection, as when we hear the priest say during the Mass after the Lord’s Prayer: “Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Blessed the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commands. His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth; the upright generation shall be blessed. Blessed the man who fears the Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 18:1-8)
"For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’” The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them?"
In the parable of the persistent widow, Jesus emphasizes the importance of persevering in prayer. Jesus uses the example of a dishonest judge who is initially indifferent but ultimately grants the widow justice because of her constant pleading. This illustrates that even if God seems slow to respond, our persistent prayer will eventually be answered by our loving Father. The parable concludes with a question about the strength of our faith in our experience of God's justice and mercy. "But when the Son of Man comes," Jesus says, "will he find faith on earth?”
God, help me see what today's Gospel and psalm reveal about your justice and its work in the lives of those who act justly. To pray always and not become weary requires persistence and faith in your justice and mercy. “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says," Jesus tells the disciples. As I recognize the limitations of human justice, give me the grace to depend more strongly on you for my daily needs and for the constant need of my soul, which seeks union with you whether or not it recognizes that. As Saint Gertrude did, let me be thankful, Lord, for your mercy in preparing me to know the infinite mystery of your justice manifested through the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ your Son. Saint Gertrude, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 17:26-37)
“As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed."
Jesus continues to tell the disciples about the coming of God's kingdom—that it is already among them and is yet to come in the final judgment. He stresses constant vigilance for that day when one who is in the field "must not return to what was left behind." Similar to what we hear in today's psalm, Jesus asks the disciples to open their eyes to the awesome majesty of the coming of God's kingdom in its full glory. The particular way that Jesus guides the disciples rests on salvation history in his retelling of the story of Noah and the wife of Lot, who became a pillar of salt as she looked back at Sodom, a place of sinfulness and corruption. Jesus invites us to turn our eyes on the kingdom of God already present and to be vigilant for the return of Christ and the final judgment.
Father in heaven, you see what I have before me today and know my desire to make the best of your gifts of time and opportunity. Amid the day's activities, let me not forget that all of these things I am attached to can suddenly be taken from me. All that I see and can respond to means nothing unless I respond in love to the love with which you first loved us. As John says in the first reading, if I walk according to your commandment to love one another, I remain in Christ's teaching, the teaching of the Father and the Son. Lord, take the little faith that I have and bless me as I seek to do all that you command.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets captives free. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 17:20-25)
Then he said to his disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. There will be those who will say to you, ‘Look, there he is,’ or ‘Look, here he is.’ Do not go off, do not run in pursuit."
Jesus is asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come. He tells them that the kingdom of God cannot be announced and is not here or there but among them. Perhaps privately, Jesus then tells the disciples that they will long to see the days of the Son of Man as they had been even as they look for the coming of the kingdom in the fullness of time. Speaking to the Pharisees, Jesus responds in kind to their question about the coming of the kingdom. To the disciples and warning them not to pursue what is false, he reveals that as the Son of Man, he brings down from heaven the kingdom to gather us as one to the eternal kingdom in heaven.
God, help me understand today's readings. You remain outside of space and time. The words of Jesus your Son express the interconnectedness of time—what has been, what is, and what will be—so that no one hesitates to wait for you to appear. Although invisible and not be found in my surroundings, give me the grace to realize and respond to your gift of the kingdom that is already here in the present moment. As I move throughout the day, let me ask you to remind me of every opportunity you give me to remain in your kingdom even as I long to see it come. "I am the vine, you are the branches, says the Lord: whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side With your rod and your staff that give me courage. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 17:11-19)
As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him.
Lepers see Jesus as he travels through Samaria and Galilee. The ten lepers remain at a distance and call out loudly to him, "Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!" In a few words, Jesus heals them, saying, "Go show yourselves to the priests." As the lepers go, they are miraculously healed of their leprosy as they obey Jesus' command through their faith and action. But only one leper—a Samaritan, a foreigner—returns to thank Jesus, falling to his knees. Jesus says, "Stand up and go; your faith has saved you." Through his faith and gratitude, the leper receives complete healing in mind, body, and soul. As the day progresses, will there be time to stop and thank God for the work he accomplishes through us as we do his will.
God, let me consider the Gospel acclamation: "In all circumstances, give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus." I am sure that throughout the day I will experience what I believe are dark valleys, paths that appear to lead to no good end. Even in those circumstances, stir up in me the desire to take comfort in you, knowing you are present with your rod and your staff to guide and protect me. Keep me in your care, Lord. Give me the grace to give you thanks always for being at my side to give me courage as I move through every moment of the day. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD? or who may stand in his holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean, who desires not what is vain. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 17:1-6)
"Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times saying, 'I am sorry,' you should forgive him."
Jesus recognizes the inevitability of sin. In the same breath, he warns the disciples of the dire consequences of causing "one of these little ones" to sin—that it would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and that he be tossed into the sea. Although we choose to sin through free will, our brothers and sisters and all of those around us can lead us into the temptation of sin, whether through counsel, command, consent, provocation, or praise. About these very same people, Jesus says, "Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him." Forgiveness calls for repentance from the offender countless times as they say sorry, yet this might never come to be. The Apostles on hearing this, perhaps recognizing the high bar Jesus places before them, ask him to increase their faith. And it only takes a little—faith the size of a mustard seed to be an instrument of God's mercy. Faith in the mercy of the Father allowed Jesus to say from the cross, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do."
God, help me dwell today on the Gospel and on the first reading. Saint Paul describes a blameless steward who is in service to you: "blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, holding fast to the true message." Arrogance, irritability, aggression, and other sins do not call for acceptance and approval but forgiveness for those who repent of them. Guide me Lord; make me blameless and a lover of goodness, holding fast to you in faith. Teach me to forgive even those who wound without knowing what they do. Saint Martin of Tours, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets captives free. Praise the Lord, my soul!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 12:38-44)
Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, "Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood."
Jesus warns the crowds of the scribes. They seek attention by the way they behave and dress, and they seek out places of honor in the marketplace and at banquets. And then Jesus says something else that seems to stand apart from the rest of what he says. He tells the crowds, "They devour the houses of widows and as a pretext recite lengthy prayers." As he sits down opposite the treasury, Jesus observes rich people putting in large amounts of money. Then a widow approaches and puts in two small coins worth a few cents. Jesus contrasts the action of the scribes who swallow up the property of healthy widows and lengthen their prayers in an attempt at restitution with the widow herself who gives out of her whole livelihood. The widow is an image and example of God's boundless generosity.
God, help me be generous today with the gifts you gave me first. In the first reading, the widow serves Elijah out of her extreme poverty. Yet, Elijah tells her, "Do not be afraid." In serving others, the widows in the first reading, the responsorial psalm, and the Gospel all receive new life from you who sustained them and raised them up. Throughout the day, guide me toward opportunities to meet someone in their poverty and be generous in your gift of mercy as you are generous to me. Lord, you give food to the hungry and set captives free!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. Therefore, we fear not, though the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea. The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (Jn 2:13-22)
Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?" But he was speaking about the temple of his Body.
The Jewish Passover is near, and many pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to worship at the temple. As Jesus enters the temple area, he finds people selling oxen, sheep, and doves. Money changers are seated there. In response, with a whip made of cords, he drives them all out and overturns the tables of the money changers. And he says to those selling doves, "Take these out of here, and stop making my Father's house a marketplace." John makes clear what would otherwise be puzzling. Jesus refers to the "temple of his Body" in the same way Saint Paul refers to the Spirit that dwells in God's holy temple: "Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" Where the Spirit of God dwells—our bodies—is not the place for a noisy, cluttered exchange of things and ideas but a quieted dwelling place to receive the person of Jesus.
God, as a way to understand the Gospel, let me consider what today's feast represents for the Church and what it means to me. The dedication feast calls attention to the Church on earth as the Body of Christ and a sign of what is yet to be in our eternal dwelling place in heaven. The disciples recognized the zeal of Jesus in the temple area but only after the resurrection came to understand that the temple of the Body would need to die and rise before we also could be restored to eternal life. The Gospel acclamation says, "I have chosen and consecrated this house, says the Lord, that my name may be there forever." All thanks and praise to you, Lord, that you have made me to be your holy dwelling place even as I long for my eternal home in the life of the world to come.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: "I rejoiced because they said to me, “We will go up to the house of the LORD.” And now we have set foot within your gates, O Jerusalem. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 16:1-8)
"For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than the children of light.”
Spoken after telling the parable of the dishonest steward, Jesus identifies a contrast between the shrewd stewardship of worldly goods and the kind of stewardship Jesus calls us to exemplify as children of light, his followers. Jesus doesn't say that he approves of the dishonesty of the steward, but he recognizes his resourcefulness in a dire situation. What Jesus suggests to each of us as his sons and daughters who live in the light of faith is to be prudent as we care and nurture and preserve it. Our imperfect attempts meet God's perfect grace. "Whoever keeps the word of Christ," we hear in the Gospel acclamation, "the love of God is truly perfected in him." In a time of crisis, from what source do we draw strength to maintain and uphold our hope as exiles. Our true home is elsewhere. "Our citizenship," Saint Paul says, "is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ."
Father in heaven, you give every good gift. The choice to follow you is mine and is not imposed but is your gift of free will. Help me use the things of this world wisely even as I choose daily to nurture and maintain your gift of faith to bring forth your kingdom to the benefit of others. Give me the grace to be prudent—even shrewd—as I seek to live as an honest steward of all of your gifts. To be a child of light means to look to the source of light for guidance. With childlike faith, let me place my trust in you, my sole hope for preserving every good gift you give me. Jesus, I trust in you!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid? The Lord is my light and my salvation."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 14:25-33)
"In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions
cannot be my disciple.”
Addressing the great crowds following him made up of individuals and family members traveling together, Jesus counts these among the possessions they need to renounce—that is, father, mother, wife, children, and brothers and sisters, and even oneself. Jesus says, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, . . . he cannot be my disciple." It is not to live in fear but to rest in the Spirit of God if we place him first and by this come to know God through our own cross in following Christ, thereby gaining anew life and redemption. The parables Jesus shares with the crowd relate to spiritual discernment and planning, and the commitment to bring to fulfillment God's work in us. And without his grace, all the planning and action in the world is worth nothing.
God, help me consider the words of Saint Paul as they relate to the Gospel: "For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work." Enliven my desire, Lord, to recognize my cross and do the work of following you as I carry it. With the help of your grace, let me be unafraid to renounce possessions and place you above all other relationships to things and people, even the ones closest to me. Let me see in sacrifices gain and not loss; more, not less. "I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD in the land of the living."
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: "O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor are my eyes haughty; I busy not myself with great things, nor with things too sublime for me. In you, O Lord, I have found my peace."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 14:12-14)
"When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
As a dinner guest of one of the leading Pharisees, Jesus speaks these words to his host. Although Luke doesn't say how he responds, we know that the criticism Jesus gives him gets at the heart of the reason the Pharisee held banquets for his guests. Does it look good in the eyes of the others? Does it impress the other guests at a banquet to see important guests. Does it inflate the ego of the host who delights in their awe? To participate in self-inflating reciprocity—to pay for honor and receive it in return for the sake of grandiosity—comes from deep dysfunction. Out of love for the people whose hearts he fashioned, Jesus tells them to stop. Instead, exit this game and open your home and your hearts to people who for whatever reason do not have the means of paying you back.
God, deepen my capacity to recognize the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. You put them daily in my field of view—those whose limitations may be physical but are more often mental or spiritual. In yesterday's Gospel, the words still echo in my mind: that you alone are the Lord and to love you with all my heart, with all my understanding, with all my strength, and to love my neighbor as myself. Help me, Lord, as I seek to love you and love my neighbor more completely. Yet, hearing the phrase "as myself" makes me realize that loving others does not mean you allow oneself to be a doormat. It means to live in the freedom of loving you through the inherent dignity as your child—a love we all carry inside us that seeks the well-being of others without compromising the common good. Saint Charles Borromeo, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "I love you, O LORD, my strength, O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. I love you, Lord, my strength."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 12:28b-34)
The scribe said to him, "Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, 'He is One and there is no other than he.' And 'to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself' is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
A scribe approaches Jesus, encouraged to hear more of what he says. The scribe asks Jesus which commandment is the most important of all. Jesus responds by quoting the Shema: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." And he tells the scribe, the second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. In acknowledging the response Jesus gives, he affirms that loving God and one’s neighbor is more important than burnt offerings and sacrifices. Jesus tells him: "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one, Mark tells us, dared to ask Jesus any more questions. What does Jesus mean by telling the scribe he is not far from the kingdom of God, and what does it mean to be near to it?
God, help me understand the commandments not as legal ties that bind but your gift to allow a wholehearted response to your love. To love you with my whole heart, soul, mind, and strength is to begin to understand the love by which you loved me first. What other gift is acceptable to you, Lord, but my whole heart? I wonder at the words of Jesus to the scribe, why the scribe is "not far from the kingdom of God" when he seems to fully understand. Yet, I see my own distance from the kingdom when I fail altogether to love you and those around me. Give me the grace, Lord, to bring forth your kingdom in these two great commandments, not by my own doing but with the help of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ your Son.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: “Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD? or who may stand in his holy place? One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean, who desires not what is vain. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 5:1-12a)
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.”
Today’s Solemnity of All Saints honors the men and women throughout the ages who lived a life of holiness. The Beatitudes reveal the roadmap—the guidelines Jesus gave to them and to all of us—to achieve sanctity. Each of the saints, a cloud of witnesses who intercede for us to the Father, lived out the Beatitudes as they accomplished his will. For each of the Beatitudes that is lived out, Jesus promises a reward now (“for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven”) and in the life of the world to come. “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. . . . Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”
God, help me see in the Beatitudes a way of being and the goodness that follows. Each Beatitude is in itself a way to holiness and results in its natural end: to the merciful mercy will be shown; to peacemakers, peace as children of God; to the persecuted for the sake of Christ, the kingdom of heaven. In the first reading, John describes the great multitude of the saints in heaven as they cry out to you: “Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb.” With the psalmist, in the company of all the holy men and women who have gone before us, I pray: “Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.” Bless me, Lord, as I hunger and thirst for the truth of your love. All you angels and saints, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From the responsorial psalm: "My mercy and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, My shield, in whom I trust, who subdues my people under me. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!"
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 13:31-35)
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling! Behold, your house will be abandoned. But I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
To hear the Son of God say these words to his people--"I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings"--is to hear in the words of the Son the lovingkindness of the Father. A love such as this, where we are taken under its wings, is irresistible. Yet, Jesus knows the hardness of heart of Herod and others who want to see him destroyed, even as he performs healings today, tomorrow, and the following day, accomplishing his purpose in willingly accepting his passion and death to rise to glory in the resurrection.
God, give me the grace today to know peace in the confidence of your presence and loving care. Jesus is told to go away to preserve his life, but he ignores the fear and manipulation that Herod and the Pharisees are trying to exercise over him. Instead, Jesus says, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." Blessed is he who continues today, and tomorrow, and the following day unafraid and in confident obedience to the Father's will. Guide me, Lord, my mercy and my fortress. Blessed be the LORD, my rock!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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From the responsorial psalm: “They rejoiced that they were calmed, and he brought them to their desired haven. Let them give thanks to the LORD for his kindness and his wondrous deeds to the children of men. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 4:35-41)
They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”
As Jesus crosses the Sea of Galilee with his disciples to reach the pagan territory of Gerasenes, a sudden gust of wind comes up over their boat. As water began to fill it, the boat was in danger of sinking and the disciples became frightened. In waking Jesus, he speaks with the same power over nature that God displays in the first reading from Job. Jesus speaks, and the sea obeys. So it is with the troubled waters of life, when in times of trial we call into question where God is in the storm. “Do you not care?” Just as God sets the limits of what we can bear, so Christ with a word disperses our storms and says, “Quiet! Be still!” At times like that, we can only pause in thanksgiving at the wondrous deeds God works in our lives.
God, I know you are present at all times. As the Gospel acclamation says, “A great prophet has risen in our midst. God has visited his people.” When I turn my back on you, I am the one responsible for your apparent absence. But you are there nonetheless, and in times of trouble I have an urgent need to find you again. “Be still,” Jesus says. “Be still and know that I am God!” the psalmist prays, “The LORD of hosts is with us.” Give me the faith, Lord, to keep you in my sight throughout the day so that when night comes I have unshakeable confidence in you at all times—in life’s storms and in the calm of their ceasing.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mk 1:7-11)
It happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."
John declares that someone greater than him is coming. "I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals," he says. He emphasizes that while he baptizes with water, the one who is to come will baptize with the Holy Spirit. After the baptism of Jesus, as he comes up out of the water, the heavens open and the Holy Spirit descends upon Him in the form of a dove. As a voice from the heavens, God affirms the divine identity of his Son. In the baptism of Jesus, we see his humility and connection to humanity. The Son of God is like us in every way but sin. In the voice of his Father, we hear how we are to respond to Jesus: "Listen to him."
Father in heaven, you testified on behalf of your Son so that we might believe him. And the testimony you have given, John says, is this: "God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life." Help me today to listen to your Son, to imitate him in my words and actions, in what I say and do and what I stop myself from saying and doing. Give me the grace to realize that I am your adopted son through the life, death, and resurrection of your Son so that you may say to me at the end of this day and at the threshold of eternal life: "You are my beloved son; with you I am well pleased."
From the first reading: "God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God." Saint Joseph and Saint André Bessette, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (Jn 1:43-51)
Nathanael said to [Jesus], "How do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."
Phillip invites his fellow townsman Nathanael to meet Jesus, but Nathanael initially voices skepticism, questioning Jesus' divine identity. He is "son of Joseph, from Nazareth," Philip tells Nathanael. Jesus responds to Nathanael's skepticism with a display of divine knowledge, revealing that he was aware of Nathanael's presence under a fig tree, to which Nathanael confesses Jesus as the Son of God and the King of Israel. "You will see greater things than this," Jesus tells Nathanael. "You will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." Aware of the innermost intentions of his disciples, and of all people, Jesus calls each of us by name to follow him and remain with him.
God, I look to you with hope in your mercy that you judge me not by external appearances—as I tend to judge others—but by who I am. You know me more intimately than I know myself. Help me recognize in Nathanael's first encounter with Jesus that you also know me by name, you call me to follow you, and that faith is necessary to know you and move beyond appearances. What are the tasks you hand to me today? Whatever they are, make clear to me your will; give me the grace to me be a means of your justice and mercy. As Saint John says in the first reading: "Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth."
From the first reading: "Now this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God." Saint John Neumann, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (Jn 1:29-34)
John testified further, saying, "I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from the sky and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God."When John the Baptist sees Jesus coming toward him, he says, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." Twice John says "I did not know him" and that God sent him to baptize with this mission: "On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit." Twice John says that he would recognize Jesus because the Holy Spirit would descend on him and remain upon him. In the same way, we know we remain in God when we do not sin. As Saint John the evangelist says in the first reading: "You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him."God, help me remain in you today. Guide me in recognizing Jesus your Son as he approaches. Send your Spirit upon me so that I remain in you and recognize you. "No one who sins has seen him or known him." Free from sin as long as I remain in you, I ask for the the grace today to see you and know you. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us. From the Gospel acclamation: “The Word of God became flesh and dwelt among us. To those who accepted him he gave power to become the children of God.”Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (Jn 1:19-28)
This is the testimony of John. When the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to him to ask him, “Who are you?” he admitted and did not deny it, but admitted, “I am not the Christ.” So they asked him, “What are you then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you, so we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you have to say for yourself?”
In the eyes of the priests and Levites, John is unlike any other. He is not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor one of the great prophets risen from the dead. Just as people of today on becoming acquainted with each other often ask, "What do you do for a living?" the religious leaders—all of whom had named affiliations or titles—ask John who he is, and find no satisfactory answer. John tells them that he baptizes with water and quotes Isaiah, saying “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord.’" John is a voice, a messenger; in complete humility, he is the one who points to one among them whom they do not recognize—the one, he says, "whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie." Asked to identify himself, John responds not vaguely but in full recognition of his role: he makes straight the way of the Lord.
God, as I move throughout the day, let me see with the eyes of faith what my role is. John knew himself in the truth of Christ. His identity was not tied to his occupation or material possessions or power. In detachment from this, he called himself a voice, as if detached completely from physical needs; and he baptized, he said, with water until one who would come after him, baptizing with the the fire of the Holy Spirit. Give me the grace, Lord, to recognize my role apart from titles and prestige, apart from esteem as the world measures it. Help me remain in you so that I am confident of my identity, my role in this life. Let me remember the words of Saint Basil the Great: "Be attentive to yourself, lest you turn aside from the road, lest you turn away to the right or left; go on the royal road . . . which is Christ Jesus."
From the Gospel acclamation: "In times, past, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets: in these last days, he has spoken to us through his Son." Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 2:16-21)
The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child. All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.
In reflecting on events in her life and on the message brought to her by the shepherds, Mary listens as they relate the revelation to them from the angel of the Lord: "For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord." Keeping all these things in her heart, Mary is an image of stillness and peace as the shepherds return, "glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen." God has blessed her beyond human understanding, the same LORD in the first reading who teaches Moses how he is to bless the Israelites. This is how you shall bless the Israelites, the LORD tells him: "The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace!" Mary's entire life is a response to God's blessing, in obedience to him with humility, trust, and perseverance. "For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness," she says in her Magnificat, "behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."
Bless me, Lord. Bless me as you blessed the Israelites. Bless me and keep me; let your face shine upon me; be gracious to me; look kindly upon me and give me your peace. That same spirit you send to me, Lord, to reflect on and keep in my heart, as Mary did. As Saint Paul says, "God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, 'Abba, Father!' Mary was the first to feel within her the stirrings of the Word made flesh, the Savior of the world. Help me recognize that I experience firsthand in the great gift of the Eucharist the same body and blood, soul and divinity, of the Savior.
From the responsorial psalm: "May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation." Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (LK 2:22-40)
When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, They took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.
According to Jewish customs, Joseph and Mary take Jesus to the Jerusalem temple to present him to the Lord. As they present him, Simeon, a righteous and devout man, recognizes Jesus as the promised Messiah. He proclaims that Jesus will bring light to Gentiles and stir up Israel and that Jesus is "destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel." Simeon also reveals to Mary the suffering she will experience as a result of Jesus' role. Another prophetess, Anna, joins in praise and spreads word of the child Jesus, the long-awaited Savior. Joseph and Mary return to Nazareth, where Jesus matures, as Luke says, "filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him."
God, in recognizing Christ, Simeon and Anna experienced peace and joy in the incarnation of the word, the presence of Emmanuel. How is it that they recognized the Savior? Luke says that Anna never left the temple, awaiting the redemption of Israel. Of Simeon, he says he was "righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel." Both waited for you, Lord; they looked out for you, prayed and fasted as devoted servants, and found not only peace in the world but recognized the word made flesh at first sight. Help me today learn from Simeon and Anna. As a way to put into practice their example, let me call to mind the words of Saint Paul from the second reading: "And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful."
From the Gospel acclamation: "In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he has spoken to us through the Son."
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 2:36-40)
When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.
In these few words, Luke shares a kind of epilogue of the birth narrative of Jesus. It shows that Mary and Joseph were faithful, that they returned to live in their hometown of Nazareth, and that Jesus grew in body and spirit and wisdom under God's favor. But of the prophetess Anna Luke is careful to describe how she lived her life, as she "worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer," and how she responded at seeing the Holy Family: "And coming forward at that very time, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem." She came forward at that very time. The present is all she had, and in that moment she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child Jesus, the coming of the Savior.
God, help me understand that in fasting, prayer, and worship, Anna made herself attentive to recognize the redemption of Jerusalem, the coming of the Messiah. Luke says that she never left the temple. Give me the grace, Lord, to be attentive to you, to watch for your coming. In recognizing you in the gift of the present moment, how can I do anything but give you thanks, as Anna did, at that very time. Half the battle, the spiritual battle, is remaining vigilant. Saint John says in the first reading that the world and its enticement are passing away. Help me today be steadfast in hearing and doing your will.
From the responsorial psalm: "Give to the LORD, you families of nations, give to the LORD glory and praise; give to the LORD the glory due his name! Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!"
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 2:22-35)
When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.
Mary and Joseph faithfully observe Jewish law by presenting Jesus in the temple to consecrate him to the Lord. They are not a wealthy couple, as evidenced by their gift of two young turtledoves offered for sacrifice. Luke relates their encounter with Simeon (and later the prophetess Anna) as he prophesies God's fulfillment of promises in Jesus, who will be a sign of contradiction and that Mary will experience great sorrow in this unfolding: Simeon says, "Lord, now let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you prepared in the sight of every people, a light to reveal you to the nations and the glory of your people Israel." Simeon proclaims that Jesus came not only for Jewish people but to bring salvation to all.
God, help me today see that you have spoken through the prophets and ultimately through Jesus, inviting all to redemption and salvation through faith in your Son. Luke says that Simeon took Jesus into his arms and blessed God. Open my eyes, Lord, to see the opportunity today to take Jesus into my arms and give you glory. I am struck by the poverty of Joseph and Mary, that out of that poverty they hold in their arms your inexhaustible treasure of love and mercy, Emmanuel—"God is with us."
From the responsorial psalm: "The LORD made the heavens. Splendor and majesty go before him; praise and grandeur are in his sanctuary. Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!" Glory to you, Lord, your word has been fulfilled!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 2:13-18)
When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him." Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, Out of Egypt I called my son.
Joseph obeys the angel's instructions and takes his family to Egypt, where they stay until Herod's death. Matthew goes on to give an account of the innocent children who were slaughtered. The Massacre of the Holy Innocents also reveals the suffering and persecution Jesus will endure after he begins his public ministry. In contrast to the evil actions of Herod, we see the purity and innocence of the child Jesus and the Holy Innocents.
God, help me understand today's Gospel as a way to comprehend how evil is perpetrated. I have come to learn that while you don't cause evil--the human misuse of freedom does--and in its mystery, you permit it to bring about a greater good. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil. He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it." This is beyond my understanding. Teach me to trust in your mercy and the redemptive work of Jesus your Son as a way to overcome evil through love, justice, and mercy. Holy Innocents, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 21:1-4)
When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, "I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood."
In today's Gospel, Jesus sees and sets as an example the generosity of the widow. Luke tells us that Jesus sees her put in two small coins, from her poverty putting her whole livelihood into the treasury offering. Having seen others make offerings from their surplus wealth, Jesus notes that the widow has put in more than them. As much as Jesus teaches the importance of almsgiving, he presents the widow as one who approaches the Lord in absolute poverty of spirit. Once she gives all that she has out of love for the Lord, her hands are empty—empty to receive from him every spiritual blessing.
God, help me understand what today's Gospel teaches me about my relationship with you. By default, I look to my self-reliance and ability to care for myself. As the widow did, help me recognize my dependence on you, not only for material needs but also for spiritual sustenance. You are eternally above all created things. As the psalmist says, "Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever." With this recognition comes humility. What do I have to give you that has any value at all? And how can I give myself entirely to you when I struggle to give of myself even from excess? Give me the grace, Lord, to recognize where my poverty of spirit dwells and to give from that same poverty to others who are famished in body and spirit. Empty me, God, of all that would prevent me from receiving and giving away your love.
From the Gospel acclamation: "Stay awake! For you do not know when the Son of Man will come." Lord, let me keep watch today for the time of your return.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
"St Anthony of Padua" flickr photo by Lawrence OP https://flickr.com/photos/paullew/27647763295 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
"St Anthony of Padua" flickr photo by Lawrence OP https://flickr.com/photos/paullew/27647763295 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
"St Anthony of Padua" flickr photo by Lawrence OP https://flickr.com/photos/paullew/27647763295 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
"St Anthony of Padua" flickr photo by Lawrence OP https://flickr.com/photos/paullew/27647763295 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
"St Anthony of Padua" flickr photo by Lawrence OP https://flickr.com/photos/paullew/27647763295 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
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The Novena to Saint Anthony of Padua is a nine-day prayer that is traditionally prayed in honor of Saint Anthony. The novena is a time for asking for Saint Anthony's intercession in our needs and for thanking him for his many blessings.
The novena can be prayed at any time of year, but it is often prayed in the days leading up to the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is June 13.
To pray the novena, simply follow these steps:
Make an intention. Before you begin the novena, take some time to think about what you would like to ask Saint Anthony for. It could be anything, such as a job, a healing, or a favor for a friend or family member.
Pray the prayer. The novena prayer is a traditional prayer that is used to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession. You can find the prayer online or in a Catholic prayer book.
Meditate on the life of Saint Anthony. As you pray the novena, take some time to reflect on the life of Saint Anthony. He was a holy man who was known for his preaching, his miracles, and his love for the poor.
Offer your prayers to God. When you are finished praying the novena, offer your prayers to God. Ask him to grant your petition through the intercession of Saint Anthony.
The novena to Saint Anthony is a powerful prayer that can help us to grow in our faith and to receive the graces that we need. If you are looking for a way to ask for Saint Anthony's intercession, the novena is a great option.
"St Anthony of Padua" flickr photo by Lawrence OP https://flickr.com/photos/paullew/27647763295 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”
In today’s Gospel, there is so much to ponder in the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. On encountering the large crowd coming to him, Jesus isn’t startled or alarmed. He knows with unshaken confidence that his Father will provide for him. The question he asks Philip, John tells us, is a test; it’s an opportunity for Philip to answer for himself that God will provide for their needs. By a simple leap of logic, I recognize that Jesus himself is asking me the same question: “Where is enough?” Philip answers this question in human terms with a human solution: they would need two hundred days worth of wages to feed the crowd only a little. And in response, the miracle Jesus provides is not in a little way but is generous to the nth degree: after the crowd had eaten, twelve baskets of leftovers were gathered. Human solutions fail; God’s divine intervention exceeds all human expectation.
God, for the times when my mind goes into overdrive searching for a solution, give me the grace to turn to you for assistance. Give me the eyes of Jesus when overwhelming needs approach that call for a solution. I am often caught up in using the gifts you have given me, trying to do all I can, but am slow to recognize that the best solution is not mine but yours to carry through. Lord, give me the peace to know that it’s okay to step off of the mental treadmill to give you space to work miracles. Relieve me from the sole burden of making things happen and draw me into your will so that I see and accomplish it.
Thank you, Lord, for the gifts of reasoning that you have given me and for your extravagant generosity. Give me the peace of Christ in confronting the problems that seem to be too big for me to handle.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
The Father loves the Son and has given everything over to him. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.
In giving everything over to the Son, the Father shows complete love for him and at the same time provides a means for all of us to have complete trust in the Son. Eternal life is the promise, and it is through the work of the Son that the Father accomplishes this for all who believe in the Son. The wrath of God—is that a kind of burning within each of us, a kind of suffering that finds no peace until obedience to the Son restores us to life?
God, another day of my life begins, and I am given the choice to believe without seeing or to fail to trust and face isolation from you. Give me the grace today of quiet confidence in you. Help me remain obedient to your Son today and every day of this earthly life so that one day I will see you in your glory. Strengthen my faith!
Hear me today, Lord. Make clear to me in moments of the day when I am unsettled and perturbed, that it is you I am missing and need to return to. Lord, lead me to the fullness of life in you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
Today’s Gospel picks up from yesterday’s passage, where Jesus teaches Nicodemus. So that everyone might have eternal life, God gave his only-begotten Son. In the words of John: “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.” The saving light of Christ did not stop people from preferring darkness to light, just as the Sanhedrin in the first reading from Acts had the Apostles put into prison. But God would not have it that darkness would overcome light. During the night, an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, and by morning the court officers found the prison locked but empty. There are times, Lord, when I prefer darkness so that my sins might not be exposed. What can I do but turn to you for help?
God, I want to live in the light of your truth so that I know your will and do your works. Today there will be moments when darkness seems desirable, where choosing to do wrong and the captivity of sin seems preferable to believing in your Son. I ask you to come into those moments today and bring them into your light. Save me from the darkness of sin that has power over me only in so far as I keep it hidden from you. With the psalmist, I pray: “Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, and your faces may not blush with shame. When the poor one called out, the LORD heard, and from all his distress he saved him.”
Lord, be my companion today. Disperse the darkness with the breath of your Spirit, and save me from the darkness that I tend toward if left alone. Give me the grace today to take refuge in you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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In today’s Gospel, Jesus continues to teach Nicodemus about the kingdom of God. He says to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony. If I tell you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?” Nicodemus struggles with faith in the work of the Holy Spirit, action that comes from beyond what is earthly. “No one has gone up to heaven,” Jesus tells him, “except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.” By saying this, Jesus reveals his divinity as the Son who, by being lifted on the cross, brings salvation to the whole world. Jesus says to Nicodemus: “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” With these words, Jesus speaks not only to Nicodemus but to everyone who would hear and believe him.
God, help me understand the heavenly things Jesus teaches Nicodemus. It is clear that your Son goes ahead of anyone who believes in him, dying and rising, and now at your right hand in majesty. In imperative form, Jesus says, “You must be born from above.” There is no questions about the necessity of being born of the Spirit. Yet, human shortcomings often tend to derail me from that goal, and it is only with your grace that I allow my will to be your will. “The wind blows where it wills,” Jesus says, “and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.” Lord, grant me the grace to listen for your will and to abandon myself to it in this life so that I may one day be born to eternal life in your kingdom.
The Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. Alleluia, alleluia.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.”
In today’s Gospel, Nicodemus acknowledges that Jesus is a teacher who has come from God, and he asks him how a person can be born again. Jesus explains that no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, he tells him, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. Nicodemus is confused and asks how this can be, but Jesus compares it to the wind, which blows where it pleases and is not seen. Not through our own power do we enter the kingdom of God but by being born again of the Holy Spirit, which transforms us from the inside out, making us new creatures in Christ. Nicodemus’s response to Jesus is almost comical—that it isn’t possible for a man once grown old to be born again. Yet, Nicodemus merely reflects on the natural order, following common sense. But the divine order—the Holy Spirit—is outside of the natural order and blows where it wills.
God, help me break free from the confines of the natural order. Most of the time things happen according to it, but if I come to believe that is always true, I miss taking part in the boldness that faith in your Son allows. As Peter and John prayed in the first reading, let me be confident in the wonders you can work that defy logic: “And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and enable your servants to speak your word with all boldness, as you stretch forth your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
Blessed are all who take refuge in the Lord. Lord, give me the grace to turn to you to take refuge.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.” Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus appears to the disciples who are gathered together in a locked room out of fear of some of the Jewish leaders. Jesus suddenly appears and says, “Peace be with you.” He then shows them his hands and side, which bear the marks of the crucifixion, and they see and believe that he has truly risen from the dead. Jesus then breathes on them and says, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” He also gives them the authority to forgive sins. Thomas is not present when Jesus appears, and he refuses to believe that Jesus has risen unless he sees the wounds for himself. A week later, Jesus appears to the disciples again, and this time Thomas is there. Jesus invites Thomas to touch his wounds and to believe, and Thomas confesses, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus’ response to Thomas is spoken not only to Thomas but to all who would believe without seeing. Peter describes this beautifully in the second reading: “Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him.”
Lord, help me understand that the words you spoke to Thomas you speak to me in your mercy to meet me in my unbelief. “Do not be unbelieving, but believe.” The eleven disciples had the benefit of your appearance to them; Thomas at first did not, and neither do I. Although I cannot see you in the same way, you invite me to believe without seeing. You are alive, body and soul, at the right hand of the Father, and you are present in the sacraments. Give me the grace to trust in what I cannot see, mercy itself, that through this belief I may have life in your name.
Thank you, Lord, for the quiet moments in your presence. Make yourself known to me today so that I’m aware of you in ways I wouldn’t ordinarily recognize. Give thanks to the LORD for he is good, his love is everlasting.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus appears to the Eleven and rebukes them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, for not believing those who saw him after the resurrection. I can only imagine what it was like as the risen Jesus called out those closest to him for their lack of faith.
God, help me understand how this event from long ago applies to me. If the Eleven lacked faith, surely my lack of faith is something Jesus would address on meeting me. Yet, what he says next to the disciples is not out of step with his rebuke; it is, instead, a means Jesus gives them to increase their faith. In telling them to go out and proclaim the Gospel to every creature, Jesus the Divine Physician diagnoses them and provides a cure: in order to confront unbelief, go out in faith to the whole world and boldly proclaim the Good News. To do this, Lord, is to do your will in the same way Peter and John proclaimed the Good News and performed miracles. When told not to speak the name of Jesus, Peter told the people who opposed him: “Whether it is right in the sight of God for us to obey you rather than God, you be the judges. It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.” God, give me courage to speak the name of your Son, and help me recognize when you place the opportunity before me.
This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia, alleluia.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
So he went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?”
As two of Jesus’ disciples are going to the village of Emmaus, Jesus approached them and walked with them, but they didn’t know it was the Lord. Jesus enters into their conversation about the events of the past week and hears in their voices that they are downcast and discouraged. Just as Mary saw the empty tomb, some members of the group also saw the empty tomb, but Jesus did not appear to them. Because of lack of faith, they are uncertain about what has taken place. They say, “But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel.” Not until Jesus speaks to them of the prophets and Scriptures that referred to him did they begin to recognize that this is no ordinary man. When Jesus stays with them and they eat together, they come to recognize Jesus in the breaking of the bread. After Jesus vanishes from their sight, their faith in him restored, they say, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!”
God, help me understand the richness of these Easter Octave Gospel readings. Just as Jesus meets Mary Magdalene along the way, he also meets the two disciples heading toward Emmaus. In their uncertainty, as they struggle to understand what has happened in the last week, they see Jesus meeting them where they are. Their encounter with him leaves them with hope restored and faith strengthened. Your Son, the risen Christ, is no less present to me as he was to them. Help me open my eyes to him as I strive to hear your voice throughout the day. In the breaking of the bread, the disciples recognized Jesus. Through your word, through the sacraments, and through the Eucharist, grant me the grace to see the glory of your presence today and every day.
This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia, alleluia.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and then reported what he had told her.
In today’s Gospel, Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb of Jesus and finds it empty. She thinks that the body of Jesus has been stolen, so she asks a man she thinks is the gardener where they have taken him. The man tells her that he is Jesus, and she recognizes him. Jesus tells her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.” He tells her to go to the disciples and tell them that he is going to his Father and their Father, to his God and their God. Mary Magdalene goes to the disciples and tells them what she has seen. In this encounter with Jesus, Mary models perfect discipleship; she recognizes the risen Jesus and goes immediately to the disciples to proclaim what she has seen and what Jesus told her.
God, help me with your grace in the same way you helped Mary Magdalene recognize and respond to your Son’s commandment to go and announce the Good News. By destroying death, Jesus bridged a great chasm that stood between you and all of humanity. In that was the end to the ultimate division between God and man but also an end to small divisions that separated your people from you in their earthly existence. Thank you, Lord, for Mary’s love of the risen Christ. As Archbishop Luis María Martínez said of Easter morning: “But a woman whose heart beat with a fathomless, invincible love, returned from the sepulcher, radiant with jubilation, on the luminous Resurrection morning. From the depths of suffering and death, sinlessness arose victorious over sin to bestow upon the world the divine gift of joy.” Once Jesus restored us to you, like Mary we are able to hear and respond to your will. Just as Jesus called Mary by name, make clear to me today, my God, when I hear him call me by name.
Lord, meet me where I am throughout every moment of this day. How am I to recognize you and your word unless you say my name?
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
On this second day in the Octave of Easter, Jesus says to Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, “Do not be afraid.” After all they experienced at the empty tomb—an earthquake, an angel descending from heaven, paralyzed Roman guards—the emotions of the two Marys were full of fear and joy as they hurried back to tell the disciples what had happened. And then Jesus met them. Consider how Jesus meets them where they are at that moment, at the height of their overwhelming joy and trembling. They couldn’t wait to share what they had witnessed. By contrast, the guards who had been frozen in fear went to tell the chief priests what had happened and were told to keep quiet. They received hush money. What did they do, Lord, when you met the two Marys on the road? Matthew says, “They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage.” Where will I be today when Jesus meets me on the way, and will I recognize him?
God, help me be ready to go out and receive you wherever today’s road leads. Often I choose paths that lead me out of fear away from giving witness to you through my life and words. Help me understand that you are there along the harder path of being your witness. Keep me in the truth of the resurrection of your Son and give me the grace to be a faithful witness of him to others.
Thank you, Lord, for this day, which is yours. Keep me in your peace and the joy of the risen Christ. As the Gospel acclamation says, “This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.
Today’s Gospel by John describes the discovery of the empty tomb by Mary Magdalene, Peter, and John. The passage begins with Mary Magdalene arriving at the tomb early on the first day of the week. She sees that the stone has been rolled away from the entrance and runs to tell Peter and the other disciple. Peter and the other disciple go to the tomb and see that the linen cloths are lying there, but the body of Jesus is gone. At the end of the passage, John enters the empty tomb and sees and believes that Jesus has risen from the dead. It is evidence of Jesus’ historical resurrection, a central tenet of the Catholic faith, but also an example of discipleship. Despite following Jesus as his closest disciples, it wasn’t until Peter and John entered the darkness of the empty tomb to see and believe in the Scripture—that Jesus had to rise from the dead. As a disciple of Jesus, I have to stop and consider how to increase my faith, where I need to see and believe.
God, help me understand the glory of the resurrection. In the empty tomb, the risen Christ has conquered death and is alive today just as he was when he rose from the dead two thousand years ago. He is the first, the one who goes before me in the hope of my own resurrection and salvation through him. It is a kind of veiled hope in this life, which quietly calls me toward you day after day in the bold, resounding hope that one day I, like your Son, will be with you forever in your glory. As Saint Paul says, “Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.” Christ has risen, and in him is undying hope. Father, give me the grace of discipleship to see and believe in hope made visible through the glory of his resurrection.
Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed; let us then feast with joy in the Lord. Alleluia, alleluia!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. . . . And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. . . . Then the angel said to the women in reply, “Do not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said. . . .” Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce this to his disciples. And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
Today’s Gospel for the Easter Vigil Mass tells how Mary Magdalene and the other Mary go to the tomb of Jesus on the first day of the week and find that it is empty. An angel tells them that Jesus has risen from the dead, and that they should go and tell his disciples. Fearful yet overjoyed, they run to announce this to his disciples and meet Jesus on the way. In telling them not to be afraid and to go to Galilee, Jesus reveals that he will appear to them there. At this moment, Jesus confirms his divinity to the women and soon will do the same to the disciples. Through his resurrection, Jesus destroys death, offering salvation to all who believe in him. An unending source of joy and hope, the risen Christ brings to everybody as the firstfruits life in the new covenant based love and mercy and salvation for all.
God, just as the women came to see the tomb, I come to you today expecting nothing extraordinary to happen. A life lived in routines—even the best routines—leads to ordinary ends. It leaves little room for awe. Yet, as they arrived, the two Marys experienced an earthquake, an angel descending from heaven, Roman guards paralyzed with fear, a stone rolled back, and the voice of the angel saying, “Do not be afraid. I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified.” Your angels, Lord, must know all about ordinary expectations. Rituals sustain us through all of life’s passages. We expect that a man who has died stays dead and that when visiting a tomb, we will find him there. But then the angel then invites them to see the place where Jesus lay, but the dead man is gone. God, help me today to put my well-worn, routine expectations to death in the pitch-black tomb where Jesus lay. Grant me the great gift of faith to expect that from the ordinary, you ignite the world with—wonder of wonders!—the extraordinary hope of life lived in your love.
From the responsorial psalm: “The right hand of the LORD has struck with power; the right hand of the LORD is exalted. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Whom are you looking for?” They answered him, “Jesus the Nazorean.” He said to them, “I AM.” Judas his betrayer was also with them. When he said to them, “I AM,” they turned away and fell to the ground. So he again asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus the Nazorean.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I AM.”
In the Lord’s Passion, Jesus refers to himself as I AM from the moment the chief priests and Pharisees come looking for him to his moment of death, when he says, “It is finished.” In his self-declaration as I AM, Jesus identifies himself as God. When Pilate tells Jesus that his own nation has handed him over to him and asks what Jesus has done, Jesus replies: “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here.” Again, when Pilate tells Jesus he has the power to release him or crucify him, Jesus says, “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above.” So it is the eternal God, the creator of the universe, God who loved us into existence and whose Son is one with him, who died on the cross to take away our sins. As Isaiah says in the first reading of the servant, the Son of God: “he shall take away the sins of many, and win pardon for their offenses.”
God, considering your Son on this day of his Passion, I fumble for words. What do I say to you? It’s the way I might feel when approaching a great or saintly person, yet there is added to that the sorrow of death and loss of a beloved one, your Son. It is your grace I need to help me expand and deepen my understanding of the passion. Saint Paul encourages me to come to you for that grace. Let me remember his words throughout the day: “So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.” To find grace in you, God—I know you desire that and that you thirst for me to come to you. From the cross, Jesus said, “I thirst.” Let me hear your voice today and come to you to receive your mercy.
Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your kindness. Take courage and be stouthearted, all you who hope in the LORD. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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So when he had washed their feet and put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you? You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
On this day, the Church celebrates three important events: the institution of the Holy Eucharist, the institution of priestly ordination and service, and the commandment to love one another as God first loved us. In today’s Gospel, Jesus knows that his hour has come to depart from this world to the Father. When Jesus offers to wash the feet of the disciples, Peter objects, saying: “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answers, “Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.” And Peter says, “Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.” In washing the feet of the disciples, Jesus gives them a model to follow “so that as I have done for you, you should also do.” With this example of the humility and love of the master, what opportunities do I have today and every day to follow as a disciple?
God, my tendency is like Peter’s in objecting to allow Jesus to humble himself before me. Jesus says, “Whoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over.” Yet, like Judas I have betrayed your Son and feel undeserving of his love. Help me, God, accept that you want my soul to be clean all over. For that, I need to allow you to wash me in ways that are sometimes uncomfortable or inconvenient. In turn, by your Son’s example, teach me to love and serve others when it is inconvenient or when humility toward them seems undeserved.
Lord, help me derive from Holy Thursday a deeper understanding of the graces and sacraments that you pour forth from it. If I am overwhelmed in taking its meaning in, guide me to what aspect of it that is most necessary in my life right now. The Gospel acclamation says simply what today is about: “I give you a new commandment, says the Lord: love one another as I have loved you.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.
Today’s Gospel, as told by Matthew, relates the story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas Iscariot. As the Twelve sit at the table with Jesus during the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, Jesus tells them to go into the city to a certain man in whose house they celebrated Passover. Jesus says to them while they were eating, “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” They then begin to question which one of them is the betrayer. “He who has dipped his hand into the dish with me is the one who will betray me,” Jesus says, warning them of the mortal consequences of betrayal. Then Judas says to Jesus, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?” And he answers, “You have said so.” Judas is fully aware that he is betraying Jesus. In his conscience, he knows he is lying. In what ways do I betray Jesus, fully aware that I am being deceitful?
Lord, I am closer to Judas in betrayal than I am to Jesus in discipleship. Often, I fail to do what I know is right and do the wrong thing instead. Judas hanged himself for the unbearable remorse he felt in his betrayal that seemed to him greater than your mercy. In his threefold denial of Jesus, Peter would find in Jesus the relationship restored with his threefold question: “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” The chief priests put a price on the head of Jesus, and Judas succumbed to betrayal for it. Time after time when I betray you, Lord, you restore me through your unfathomable mercy in the sacrament of reconciliation. Your Son paid the price for that at a cost I will never fully comprehend.
Merciful God, restore me with your loving presence. Grant me the wisdom to know the limited value of the things of this world and the grace of trusting in your limitless mercy.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of him, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, because many of the Jews were turning away and believing in Jesus because of him.
Before Passover and after Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead, Jesus goes to the house of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus for a dinner they invited him to. John tells us that Mary takes a liter of costly perfumed oil and anoints the feet of Jesus and dries them with her hair. At this, Judas Iscariot complains, saying that the oil should have been sold to give to the poor. He says this not because he cared about the poor but because he held the money bag and would steal from it. Jesus says to Judas: “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” Seeing large crowds of Jews go to see Jesus there, the chief priests plot to kill Jesus and Lazarus. Because of Lazarus, many people were coming to believe in Jesus. In Jesus’ rebuke of Judas, there is tenderness toward Mary’s anointing. During Holy Week, what little extravagance of love can I offer the Lord?
God, you are outside of time; yet, your Son recognizes his time on earth was coming to an end. Mary sits at the feet of Jesus, just as he would soon be at the feet of the Twelve, the servant of servants washing them clean of sin. Help me understand the paths of those who came to believe in you, whether through their heart or head. Before Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, Mary said to him: “I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” Others came to believe in you through the works your Son performed while on earth, witnesses to his many miraculous healings. In the first reading from Isaiah, you say: “I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand.” There is only so much time to come to believe in you, Lord, and remain firm in belief; take initiative, take me by the hand.
God, grant me the grace today to use the things of this world for your glory. Creator of heaven and earth, you are a light for the nations. Open my eyes today to see the light and do what is pleasing to you.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Then the high priest said to him, “I order you to tell us under oath before the living God whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “You have said so. But I tell you: From now on you will see ‘the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power’ and ‘coming on the clouds of heaven.'” Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed. . . ! He deserves to die!”
In this Sunday’s Gospel, the Lord’s Passion as told by Matthew, the Mass readings for today are rich in symbolism and meaning. At the start of the Gospel, Judas Iscariot makes a deal with the chief priests to hand over Jesus to them for thirty pieces of silver. Later, Jesus gathers the Twelve together for the Last Supper, where Judas Iscariot’s betrayal is made clear and where Jesus institutes the Eucharistic: “Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.” Matthew goes on to relate how Jesus was handed over to the chief priests and then Pilate; how he was scourged, stripped of his clothes, and carried the cross to Golgotha where he died on the cross. At his death, Matthew tells us, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two, the earth quaked, and tombs were opened, and the bodies of many were raised from the dead. Seeing this, the centurion and the men appointed to keep watch over Jesus, said, “Truly, this was the Son of God!” In witnessing this, do I have the same sense of awe and wonder as the Roman centurion?
God, the passion and death of your son is simultaneously the single greatest act of love for humanity—and for me personally—yet hard to keep my gaze fixed on. The high priest asked Jesus to tell him whether he was the Son of God. Eons, centuries, decades, and finally days and hours would pass before the truth of Christ was revealed through his resurrection. He is the Son of God, your only son. Help me take from it a means to know you, love you, and to do your will. Just as the centurion was transformed by his realization of the significance of Jesus’ death, help me by your grace keep my eyes fixed on the Son of Man who sits at the right hand of the Father.
Lord, help me today by keeping my gaze fixed on the passion and death of your son and giving praise to your name. With Saint Paul, let me proclaim: “God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name. . . . Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Caiaphas prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God. So from that day on they planned to kill him.
Today’s Gospel describes the plan of Caiaphas, high priest, to save the Jewish nation out of fear of the many signs Jesus performed. His fear is that if they leave Jesus on his own, people will come to believe in him. Caiaphas says to the Sanhedrin, “You know nothing, nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.” At the beginning of today’s Gospel, we hear how many of the Jews come to Mary to see what Jesus had done in raising her brother Lazarus from the dead. This great miracle of Jesus in the hands of Caiaphas was divisive, and he meant to do everything he could to prevent Jesus from driving a wedge between the political alignment of the Jewish nation and the Romans. God’s plan for salvation in his Son’s passion, death, and resurrection began to unfold through Caiaphas and Mary. One obstructed God’s plan to “gather into one the dispersed children of God”; the other, a willing participant in that plan, cooperated with the same grace that set salvation into motion. If I had lived in that time, which side would I have been on?
God, help me recognize that if I am not with you, I am against you. As Jesus says in the Gospel according to Matthew: “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” It is not possible to do your will and at the same time divide and plot to do harm to others. Having seen her brother raised from the dead, Mary’s joy overflowed to those around her, giving witness to Jesus as miraculous healer and Son of God. She gathered rather than scattered. Today I will have many opportunities to choose between gathering or scattering. Grant me the grace, God, to be drawn to you and to gather together others toward you, toward what is true and good and beautiful.
Guard me today, Lord, and guide me in your ways. From the responsorial psalm, let me recall your voice throughout the day: “My dwelling shall be with them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
“If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is challenged by people who do not believe in him. Seeing that they fail to believe in Jesus’ divine nature, he appeals to the people on the basis of his many good works—through his words and through his healings of mind, body, and spirit. Still, the people try to stone and arrest Jesus, but he escaped from their power because his time had not yet come. Jesus left that place and went across the Jordan, where John first baptized. Many people there came to believe in Jesus, saying, “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” The people came to believe not because of signs but because the testimony of John was true. These two ways of coming to know Christ, through his works or through testimony, lead to the same road: the realization that he and the Father are one.
God, help me understand that you always leave open a way to come to know and love you. Whether I see the works of your Son through the Gospel, or witness your miracles work in the lives of others, or experience health of mind and body through participation in the sacraments, there I have an opportunity to come to know you and strengthen my faith. Attacks on my faith will come; voices from the outside or from within will cause me to question that you are the Father almighty. Attacks on the Church will come; persecutors will murmur and seek always to denounce. But let me remember the words of Jeremiah from the first reading: “But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph.”
Stay with me today and keep me in your care! In the words of today’s responsorial psalm: “I love you, O LORD, my strength, O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ You do not know him, but I know him.”
As Jesus reveals that he is the great I AM, some of the Jews he is speaking with challenge him when he says, “I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” The people ask Jesus if he is greater than Abraham or the prophets, who died, and Jesus answers that he is one with his Father and that the Father glorifies him. “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?” the people ask Jesus. He tells them: “I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” They then pick up stones to throw at Jesus, but he hides and goes out of the temple area. Why Jesus hides here is not out of fear; by doing his Father’s will, the Father glorifies Jesus. The time of his passion had not yet come.
God, help me see what it means to know you as your son knows you. If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing. But if I know and do your will, my every word and action will glorify you. Just as the Father glorified Jesus, I give you glory, Lord, when I make my works, joys, and sufferings of the day a means to give you glory. In your son’s promise of eternal life, I see what those of Jesus’ time could not see: the resurrection that follows his passion and death. “I say to you,” Jesus says, “whoever keeps my word will never see death.” I believe in the resurrection. Glory to you, Lord; help my unbelief.
You are ever present, Lord, and transcend time. As you once promised Abraham, you promise to me: “I will maintain my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.” Help me today, Lord, remember you are here in the present moment.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me.”
In today’s Gospel, some of the Jews who believe in Jesus struggle to recognize the truth of his divinity. Jesus, truth incarnate in the person of Christ, says to them: “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” But they believe that as descendants of Abraham, they have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it, then, that Jesus tells them that the truth will set them free? As the Son of God, Jesus freely chooses to do the will of the Father through his passion, death, and resurrection, and in that he invites us into the freedom of discipleship. Jesus tells them: “A slave does not remain in a household forever, but a son always remains. So if the Son frees you, then you will truly be free.” Like the people Jesus addresses in today’s Gospel, are there precedents or biases I accept that are obstacles to the truth of Jesus Christ?
God, give me the grace to recognize that I often accept partial truths as if they were incontrovertible realities. Help me take care today of the agendas I set for myself this morning that I check against tonight. Do I measure my worth by the things I plan to do and then carry out? Have I accomplished my will? There is something disappointing and bitter in living that way—checking off accomplishments. What can I hope to accomplish in a day unless I first seek to know your will? God, I want to live today knowing that your Son frees me to hear your voice and do your will.
Lord, thank you for the peace in knowing you are near. You loved me first. Keep me in your truth today and always so that I am free to receive your love!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
So Jesus said to the Pharisees, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus reveals to the Pharisees what is about to take place in his crucifixion. Jesus, the Son of Man, will be lifted up on the cross to die for the sins of all. By telling the Pharisees that unless they believe that Jesus is I AM—that is, Yahweh, God the Father—he invites them into his redemption through faith and repentance: “For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” In God’s love for his people, in that lifting up of Jesus on the cross, a paradox unfolds before all of humanity. The cross becomes an instrument of the resurrection. By dying, Christ destroyed death; by rising, he restored life. As Saint Paul says in his letter to the Corinthians: “For since death came through man, the resurrection of the dead came also through man.” The Pharisees question Jesus: “Who are you?” Far from being a remnant from the historical life of Jesus, this question is one that I can ask myself daily. But unlike the Pharisees, I have the benefit of knowing the answer through his resurrection. He is I AM.
God, I want to come to a greater understanding of what Jesus meant when he said to the Pharisees: “I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.” Your son sits at your right hand and belongs with you above. The Pharisees who belonged to the world did not recognize the blindness of sin and so would die with their sins in this world. Help me understand that you belong to what is above and that you also want me to die to this world through repentance so that I can rise to new life through your son. Help me realize that Jesus is I AM.
Lord, as you always do what is pleasing to your Father, help me do what is pleasing to you. Be with me today and increase my awareness that with you I am never left alone.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he bent down and wrote on the ground. And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders.
Saying these few words, Jesus then bends down and in that moment when no words are spoken, the crowd slowly disperses. In today’s Gospel, it is the elders who are the first to walk away from stoning the woman caught in adultery. In that still moment, they recognize that they also commit sin and are not free from guilt. By contrast, in the first reading from Daniel, it is the elders who are the first to accuse Susanna of adultery to hide their sin. John tells us in today’s Gospel that after the crowd goes away one by one, Jesus says to the woman: “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She tells him, “No one, sir.” Then Jesus says to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.” Before saying this to the woman, Jesus straightens up the woman; this is a detail not to be missed. He reaches out his hand to her to raise up the helpless.
God, there are times, as in the responsorial psalm, where the day’s walk is through a dark valley. In the first reading and in the Gospel, the crowd—the mob—accuses and wants nothing more than to see justice carried out even to the point of death. This is the world you sent your son into. Am I sometimes the one in the midst of the mob? Even when Jesus says “Let the one among you who is without sin,” there is one who would throw a stone regardless. During the Gospel reading on Good Friday, the congregation takes the voice of the crowd, crying out “Crucify him.” Help me, Lord, be merciful and forgiving. You alone know the sins of others and are the just judge. Give me the grace to quiet the mob voice within me. In the dark valley of waywardness and sin, straighten me up so that I can find a way back to you; guide me in the way of forgiveness.
Be with me today, merciful Lord, and forgive me. “Even though I walk in the dark valley, I fear no evil; for you are at my side.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
In this Sunday’s Gospel, both Martha and Mary say this to Jesus as he approaches their brother Lazarus’s tomb. Jesus makes clear to the disciples that he will raise Lazarus from the dead, saying, “Lazarus has died. And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him.” Martha, one of the two sisters who in another Gospel passage busies herself in the kitchen while Mary sits at Jesus’ feet, says to Jesus: “But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” She believes that Jesus is the Messiah, saying, “I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” Jesus then asks Martha to send for Mary, who was inside mourning. Using the same words as Martha, Mary says to Jesus: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw Mary’s weeping and the weeping of friends who had come with her, John tells us that Jesus became perturbed and deeply troubled. Jesus asked where Lazarus was, and he wept before going to the tomb that kept Lazarus bound by death.
God, I want to see today’s Gospel with a fresh set of eyes. At its core is a stark reality: Jesus, your son, raised Lazarus from the dead. Help me see also Martha’s and Mary’s responses to their brother’s death and the faith and trust they had in your mercy. Martha is stouthearted in her faith, and expresses it in certain terms: “You are the Christ, the Son of God.” Overcome with grief, Mary sheds tears that brings Jesus himself to weep. Both Mary and Martha reach out to your son in faith, and he responds to them with mercy by raising Lazarus from the dead. I believe, Lord; help my unbelief.
God, thank you for your mercy, your loving-kindness toward those in pain. Strengthen my faith in your son, who says to you before raising Lazarus from the dead: “Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God.”
These words of the angel Gabriel follow Mary’s question at the annunciation: “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” Rather than challenging God’s power and ability to do the impossible, Mary’s question suggests the nature of her relationship with God. Your will, God, not mine. After Gabriel responds to her, she says, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. In her question also is a sense of the awe she felt before God. That same sense of wonder overshadowed her as she learned that her barren cousin Elizabeth had conceived a son and was in her sixth month. The last words Gabriel speaks before departing are “for nothing will be impossible for God.” There is so much beauty in the Annunciation, any aspect of it is worth spending time pondering.
Lord, I can imagine Mary pondered these words long after Gabriel left her; carrying them with her as she carried Jesus; carrying them with her in his infancy and childhood; and carrying them with her to the foot of the cross. Mary’s simple question—”How can this be?”—was answered again and again throughout her motherhood. Mary said yes to the Incarnation, obedient to the Lord’s merciful will; her son said yes to suffering and death, destroying death and rising to new life to bring all of us redemption. “How can this be?” That’s a question I can ask of myself every day to understand your will. Help me, Lord, respond by saying, “May it be done according to your word.”
Lord, thank you for the gift of your presence! Overshadow me today; make your will known.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
In today’s Gospel according to John, Jesus can’t keep his divine identity secret. Although Jesus seeks to travel covertly to the Jewish feast of Tabernacles because there were some in Jerusalem who were trying to kill him, once there he hears what some of the people are saying about him. “Is he not the one they are trying to kill? And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him.” They go on to say about Jesus: “Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ? But we know where he is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.” Jesus then cries out in the temple area as he is teaching: “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” They try to arrest Jesus, but John tells us “no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.”
God, help me learn how you move and act through my life each day. As Saint Paul says, in you “we live and move and have our being.” The people of Jerusalem knew your Son yet did not know you or where he came from. Their expectation was that the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from. God, you work in ways that confound human understanding. What the people of Jerusalem assumed—that no one would know where the Messiah is from—blinded them to the coming of Christ. You walked and moved among your people, yet many did not see it. In my own preoccupation with the way things usually work, I completely miss the works you accomplish every day. In each day made up of a multitude of experiences, you alone in the mystery of your being are true.
“Be still and know that I am God.” Give me the grace, Lord, to know you through your works today and always.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus said: “Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you do not want to come to me to have life.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus continues speaking to some of the Jewish people who question his divinity because he calls God his Father. Although Jesus recognizes the light of testimony that John brought, Jesus tells the Jewish people he addresses that he does not accept human testimony. Jesus says to them: “But I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.” As the Incarnate word, Jesus’ works testify on behalf of his Father. Jesus also tells the people that he does not accept human praise and questions that basis of belief as a hindrance to their acceptance of him. “For if you had believed Moses,” Jesus says, “you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
God, just as your Son performed works that testified on your behalf, as one baptized I am also called to give witness to you through my prayers, works, sufferings, and joys—through my life—so that in dying and rising with you in baptism I give you glory and praise. The Gospel acclamation sums up Jesus’ earthly mission and is a core belief in giving witness to the Father: “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.”
Strengthen my faith, Lord, that I may always believe your words. From the responsorial psalm: Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus said, “I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”
Today’s Gospel takes place immediately after yesterday’s, where Jesus cures the man who had been ill for thirty-eight years. The Jews persecuted Jesus because he cured the man on the sabbath. As the Gospel passage continues, Jesus gives witness to them that he is doing the work of his Father, making himself equal to God, which gives the Jews all the more reason to kill him. Jesus reveals himself to them as the giver of life and the just judge who holds life and death in his hands. “Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.” As the one whom the Father has given all judgment, Jesus tells them that those who have done good deeds will go to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation. In his own words, Jesus makes clear his divinity and the hope of eternal life to all who would hear him.
God, you have given all judgment to your Son. During the remaining days of Lent, help me identify and root out any wrong I have done that keeps me from hearing your voice and doing your will. Often I move throughout the day unaware of your presence, and I try but sometimes fail to make the best use of your gift of time. “My Father is at work until now,” Jesus says, “so I am at work.” Father, help me join in your work by seeking your will.
Lord, let me take consolation today in knowing you are with me even when I forget you. From the first reading from Isaiah, let me remember your tenderness: “Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus sees in Jerusalem a man lying in a portico near the pool of Bethesda. The man had been ill a long time—thirty-eight years, John tells us. Knowing this, Jesus asks him, “Do you want to be well?” The man tells Jesus that he has no one to put him into the pool, so others get there before him as he is on his way. Jesus says to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.” The man becomes well immediately and takes up his mat and walks. Because this took place on the sabbath, the Jews told the man it was not lawful for him to carry the mat. When they found out that Jesus was the one who made the man well, they began to persecute Jesus. “Look, you are well,” Jesus said to the man, “Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.” It might seem odd to ask, but what does Jesus mean? What things worse are there for one who has been ill for thirty-eight years?
God, help me comprehend the everlasting harm to the soul brought on by despair and unrepented sin. Let me see the goodness in this Gospel and take to heart Jesus’ command: “do not sin any more.” To experience Jesus’ healing in confession is to hear him say, “Look, you are well.” In the first reading from Ezekiel, the water that flowed from the temple made trees grow whose leaves would never fade and whose fruit would never fail. “The fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine.” Jesus, you in your being are the medicine that makes us well.
Through the sacraments, I have both healing in this life and the medicine of immortality. God, be my ever-present help in distress today and always. Thank you, Lord, for your presence!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
In today’s Gospel, Joseph hears the angel of the Lord and does as he commands. Joseph is the first to take Mary into his home; since then, innumerable Christians throughout history have taken Mary into their homes. Mary’s yes ushered in God’s new creation through Christ; Joseph’s yes brought Mary into the heart of his home and into the center of salvation and redemption for all people. To hear and believe what the angel of the Lord said, Joseph had to put aside fear and, like Mary, begin to ponder the name above all names: Jesus. How can I not respond in kind as Joseph did?
God, give me the grace to comprehend what it means to ask Mary into my home. In doing that, I know there is no guarantee of consolation or receiving whatever I pray for. Instead, the more I ask Mary to intercede for me, the more things will be shaken up as she redirects me to her son. At the Wedding at Cana, Mary said of Jesus to the servers: “Do whatever he says.” And so Jesus began his public ministry, which led to his passion, death, and resurrection. Hear me, God, and help me recall: when the day’s challenges are in full force and multiple imperatives become entangled with one another, let me be unafraid and do as Joseph did by inviting Mary into the heart of the conflict.
Stay with me, Lord; let me be obedient to you, as Joseph was in his faithful care of Mary and Jesus.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
“If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you are saying, ‘We see,’ so your sin remains.
In this Sunday’s Gospel, worth reading and rereading because of its richness and majesty, Jesus heals a man who was born blind. John’s account of the story begins with Jesus and his disciples encountering the blind man, and the disciples asking whether the man’s blindness was caused by his own sin or that of his parents. Jesus responds that neither the man nor his parents sinned, but rather the man was born blind so that “the works of God might be made visible through him.” Jesus heals the man by spitting on the ground, making mud with the saliva, and spreading the mud over the man’s eyes. Jesus then instructs the man to wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam. The healing causes controversy among the Pharisees, who question the man and his parents about the healing. They are skeptical of the healing and accuse Jesus of being a sinner because he healed on the Sabbath, and they throw the man out of the synagogue. When Jesus hears about this, he approaches the man and Jesus asks if he believes that he is the Son of Man. The man says to Jesus, “I do believe, Lord,” and he worships him. Jesus tells him: “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.” In this Gospel passage, the man’s physical blindness is lifted, allowing him to see the world around him. Greater yet, he gains spiritual insight into the truth of Jesus’ power and divinity and worships him. Compare this to the Pharisees who reject Jesus and his healing power remain in spiritual darkness, unable to see the truth of who Jesus is.
God, help me distinguish between blindness and sight. Keep me in your light, visible to you, and bring me to life through you. As Saint Paul says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” When the man’s physical blindness is lifted, he comes to believe in you. Bring into the light the things that lie in darkness and lead to death so that I can reject them. From the Gospel acclamation: “I am the light of the world, says the Lord; whoever follows me will have the light of life.”
Lord, I want to live in the light of your truth. “Live as children of light,” Saint Paul says, “for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.” Keep me in your light, Lord!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
“But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’”
Jesus tells the parable about those convinced of their own righteousness. He compares the prayers in the temple of two people: a Pharisee and a tax collector. The Pharisee took a position in the temple and spoke a prayer to himself: “O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity—greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.” Meanwhile, the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not raise his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast and prayed: “O God, be merciful to me a sinner.” Jesus says of the tax collector and the sinner: “I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” How often have I been like the Pharisee who looks at others and says, “Thank God I am not like them”?
God, help me see the ways I have convinced myself of my own righteousness and release me from its bondage. Although I come to you at times humbled and in need of your compassion, at other times I am thankful for the position I have taken up in life and despise others for the choices they have made and the lives they lead. Be merciful, Lord; give me the grace to be merciful to others. Contrary to what the Pharisee believes, I am like the rest of humanity and in as much need of God’s mercy as those that through pride I fall into believing I am superior to. “O God, be merciful to me a sinner.” Make me a means of mercy to others.
From the Responsorial Psalm: “Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”
In today’s Gospel, a scribe asks Jesus which is the first or greatest of the commandments. First among them, part of Mosaic law embodied in the Shema, or the Jewish profession of faith, is to love God above all else. The Shema was a daily prayer for ancient Israelites, still recited today by Jewish people. And then Jesus says, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no separating these two great commandments to love. As in the Lord’s Prayer, to forgive is to know God’s forgiveness; to love others is to experience the love of God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Those others God puts before us daily—whether strangers, friends, or family—are a humbling reminder of how demanding it is to put God first and love others.
God, help me understand that in forgiving others, I commend them to you and learn to love them. Without your grace, Lord, it is a weak and faltering love, tending toward collapse. With the first reading from Hosea, I see you present your mercy as a model: “I will heal their defection, says the LORD, I will love them freely; for my wrath is turned away from them.” How do I dare to say that I will love you with everything I have? Give me the grace, Lord, to obey your two great commandments.
From the Prayer after Communion: “May your strength be at work in us, O Lord, pervading our minds and bodies, that what we have received by participating in this Sacrament may bring us the fullness of redemption. Through Christ our Lord.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
Jesus said to the crowds: “But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe. But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”
In today’s Gospel, as Jesus drives out a demon from a mute man, some of the people in the crowds say of him: “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” Others in the crowd ask Jesus for a sign. He knows their thoughts and says to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?” Similarly, in the first reading the LORD speaks to the Israelites through the prophet Jeremiah: “From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day, I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets. Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed.” The strong man Jesus refers to is Satan in all his forms—sin that takes possession of the person. Jesus is the stronger one, who attacks and overcomes Satan. His invitation to gather with him is a call to let go of what possesses us and follow him in obedience.
God, help me understand what takes place in my soul when you overthrow sin and I am able to return to you. From the Gospel acclamation: “Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, for I am gracious and merciful.” When I confess my sins in the sacrament of reconciliation and receive absolution, you take away the armor on which I relied and restore my wholehearted devotion to you; you remove the old armor and put on me the armor of light; you take away my stony heart and give me a natural heart; you distribute the spoils—every good gift you have given me—that I can be a light to others. Just as you sent prophets to the Israelites, you send me your Son so that I can hear your voice and receive your mercy.
Lord, remain with me today. Let me call to mind throughout the day what you announced through Jeremiah: “Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you, so that you may prosper.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.”
These words of Jesus refer to the law that the LORD commanded Moses to teach to the people of Israel. In the first reading, Moses said to the people: “Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.” Jesus came not to take the law away that the LORD had given Israel but to fulfill it. Just as the LORD told Moses to obey so that the Israelites may live, Jesus also came to give life—abundant life—so that we may enter the Kingdom of heaven. From the Gospel acclamation, we pray: “Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life; you have the words of everlasting life.” In the natural order, life diminishes; each day is one less day on earth. But so that we may have life, as Jesus says in the Gospel according to John: “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”
Thank you, God, for the gift of your only Son. In his fulfillment, there is nothing in the law or the prophets to be forgotten or discarded. As Moses said to the Israelites, I can say of the fullness of my faith: “However, take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, but teach them to your children and to your children’s children.” Give me the grace, Lord, to be obedient to the teachings of Christ and his bride, the Church.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?’ Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt. So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.”
In response to Peter’s question about forgiveness, Jesus tells the parable about a king and a great debt a servant owed him. Since he had no way of paying it back, the master of that servant ordered that his wife, children, and property be sold to pay for the debt. But the servant begged the master and said, “Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.” The master pitied him and forgave him all of his debt. When that servant encountered a fellow servant who owed him, he demanded that the other servant pay him what he owed. Falling to his knees, the fellow servant begged for mercy, saying, “Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.” But he denied him the request and had him put in jail. When word got back to the master, he summoned his servant and handed him over to torturers until he could pay back his debt. Jesus then says, “So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.” The shocking mention of torture is enveloped by the greater message of forgiveness and the consequence of failing to forgive. The same formula applies here as it does in the Our Father: “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
God, help me relate this back to the first part of today’s Gospel. Peter asked Jesus how many times he must forgive someone who sins against him, and Jesus replies, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. That is why the Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants.” In your kingdom, Lord, there is mercy and forgiveness. What is alien to your kingdom is fallen human nature. That is why Jesus tells Peter to forgive constantly; in that kind of forgiveness is a reaching out for you, an attempt to be perfect just as you are perfect. The alternative is to suffer in self-torture through a failure to forgive. Help me forgive, Lord, any hurt I hold on to that keeps me from you.
Thank you, Lord, for your presence today. From the first reading, help me recall throughout the day: “And now we follow you with our whole heart, we fear you and we pray to you. Do not let us be put to shame, but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is in his hometown talking to people in the synagogue who must have been made up of family, neighbors, and friends. They would have known Jesus well as the carpenter’s son, the son of Joseph and Mary. How could they be expected to accept Jesus as the Messiah? That is exactly who he claimed to be. In the same chapter as today’s reading, Luke tells us that Jesus unrolled the scroll in the synagogue to these words: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” He then said, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” Among my family and neighbors and friends, how do I proclaim this good news, and is it accepted?
God, compared to the grandness of the Gospel, things that happen close to home seem mundane and no miracles ever seem to take place. Yet in the first reading, at Elisha’s bidding, Naaman washed in the Jordan seven times and his leprosy left him. His skin again became like the skin of a little child. Give me the grace today to see you amid the ordinary, among the mundane events of the day. Having been baptized and partaking of the sacraments, I can say as Jesus did: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.” I can choose to be an instrument of his healing—to bring hope to the poor, to free others, and to bring light to the darkness. How is it that through the risen Christ I become Christ to others in my own native place? And how can I open my eyes to others—those closest to me—who have been Christ bringing glad tidings? Help me take all of this in.
Lord, be with me today in my own native place. Send forth your Spirit, O Lord!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
In today’s Gospel for the third Sunday of Lent, Jesus encounters the woman at the well alone as the disciples go off to town to buy food. He asks the woman, a Samaritan, for a drink. She says, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” Jesus says to her in reply, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” The woman’s eyes open to the realization that Jesus is a prophet and something greater. Her thirst for the living water grows as she sees that Jesus thirsts for her faith. When the disciples arrive, she leaves the well behind and returns to town, saying to the people: “Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Christ?” As a result, John tells us, many Samaritans from that town began to believe in Jesus because of the word of the woman who testified. With a little act of testifying, not even in full confidence, the woman brings Christ to the people. And after Jesus stayed with some of them, they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”
God, I want to take in the fullness of today’s readings. Help me understand that just as the Israelites thirsted for water in the desert, the woman at the well also thirsted. Moses struck the rock, and water flowed from it after the Israelites tested you, saying, “Is the LORD in our midst or not?” And from the water that flowed, the Israelites would drink again and again. The woman at the well opened her eyes to Jesus’ divinity, testifying, “Could he possibly be the Christ?” I see in myself the same tentative faith as the woman at the well, I drink from the living water of your Son; through him, I drink from the spring of water welling up to eternal life. With the Gospel acclamation I pray, “Lord, you are truly the Savior of the world; give me living water, that I may never thirst again.” Strengthen my faith, God!
Thank you, Lord, for your presence in the desert of this life. In each new day, I thirst for many things that are not you and that slake my thirst for a while but leave me parched. Give me the gift today that is you—the peace of your presence in this life as only you can give. And sustain in me today and always the welling up of hope of eternal life with you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
“My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours. But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the well-known parable of the prodigal son, explaining to the scribes and Pharisees how tax collectors and sinners were coming to him to listen to him. The scribes and Pharisees believed Jesus and his disciples should not associate with such people. The parable of the prodigal son teaches that God’s mercy and forgiveness are available to all who repent and return to him, no matter how far they may have strayed. It also warns against jealousy and the danger of thinking that one’s own righteousness makes for superiority to others. To be able to return to the Father is to experience his great mercy.
God, help me understand the nature of your mercy and generosity expressed in this parable. The father rejoices in the return of the younger son—dead and come to life again—but he also affirms the older son’s place at home with him and the inheritance he will come into. For the father, the joy is doubled because the son who was lost returns and the faithful son has all that belongs to the father. That generosity extends beyond possession; the father has nothing he calls exclusively his own. Good Father in heaven, you take me back when I have been away and return, when I have been lost and again find my way to you, when I die to whatever is not you and through you come back to life.
Lord, help me receive your embrace today—the same way I have countless times in absolution after going to confession. From the first reading from Micha: “Who is there like you, the God who removes guilt and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance; Who does not persist in anger forever, but delights rather in clemency, And will again have compassion on us, treading underfoot our guilt?”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to them, “Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the chief priests and the elders of the people a parable about a landowner who planted a vineyard, built a fence around it, and leased it to tenants. When the landowner sent his servants to collect his share of the produce, the tenants beat, killed, and stoned them. Finally, the landowner sent his son, thinking the tenants would respect him, but they killed him too. Jesus then asked the chief priests and elders what the landowner would do to those wicked tenants, and they responded that he would put them to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants. Jesus quotes them Scripture, saying the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. They understand that Jesus is speaking about them, and they sought to arrest him, but they feared the crowds because they regarded Jesus as a prophet. I can’t help asking myself which figures in this parable I most closely resemble. Am I a good steward of God’s gifts, or do I expect the lion’s share and demand my inheritance?
God, help me slow down today and ask myself where all good gifts come from and whether I care for them properly. What will I do today with the gifts you give me—the gift of time, the gift of sunlight and fresh air, the gift of food, and the gift of relationships with others? The Gospel acclamation reminds me that the gift Jesus gave for his kingdom was the same as the son gave to his vineyard, his very life: “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son; so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.” Help me today, God, take joy in caring for the gifts you give me to produce fruit as I go to work, a tenant in your vineyard.
Lord, let me know you are near today. Keep me in your care and give me the grace to recognize the goodness of your gifts.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
Thus says the LORD: More tortuous than all else is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it? I, the LORD, alone probe the mind and test the heart, To reward everyone according to his ways, according to the merit of his deeds.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who ignored the needs of a poor man named Lazarus, who lay at his gate begging for scraps. When both men died, the rich man found himself in torment, while Lazarus was comforted in the bosom of Abraham. The rich man begged Abraham to send Lazarus to warn his five brothers about the consequences of their actions, but Abraham told him that they had Moses and the prophets to guide them. In the first reading, Jeremiah voices the words of the LORD, warning against trusting in human strength and turning away from God, who alone can search and know our minds and hearts. Together, these two readings direct us to place our trust in God rather than in earthly things and prioritizing compassion and love for others over selfishness and greed.
God, help me understand the ways that I have been like the rich man in the parable. His hard-heartedness and indulgence in the things of this world ultimately led to his torment, while Lazarus’s faithfulness and trust in God led him to eternal reward. In his reliance on your providence, Lord, Abraham is like the woman Jesus encounters who begs him to heal her daughter. She says to Jesus: “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” God, give me the grace today to keep my eyes fixed on your hand and on the good gifts you provide me with. Let me trust you and help me be aware of it, be alert to it, and give witness to it.
From today’s entrance antiphon: “Test me, O God, and know my thoughts. See that my path is not wicked, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said, “Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
As Jesus goes toward Jerusalem with the Twelve disciples, he tells them that he will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, condemned to death, mocked, scourged, and crucified, and then raised on the third day. About that time, the mother of James and John asks that Jesus command that her two sons sit beside him in his kingdom. He said in reply, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?” They said to him, “We can.” He replied, “My chalice you will indeed drink, but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.” The other disciples are disturbed at hearing this, but Jesus says that among them, authority is not flaunted as it is among the Gentiles. Instead, Jesus says, “Whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant.” Jesus served by giving his life as a ransom for many. What will God present to me today as an opportunity to serve others?
God, help me see today’s Gospel account in relation to this day. It isn’t likely that by serving others today I will give to the point of agony. Yet, in whatever way I do serve, help me remember to do this in unity with your suffering for the glory of your Father. Jesus said to James and John, “My chalice you will indeed drink, but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give.” Give me today, God, the knowledge of your will and the courage to carry it out with love.
Lord, when the mother of James and John approached you, you asked her, “What do you wish?” Just as you were attentive to her, you hear whatever I ask. Give me the grace today to remember to ask for what I need and hear your response. Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
These words from today’s Gospel follow Jesus’ denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees. Although not rejecting them altogether as he says do and observe what they tell you, he tells the people not to follow their example because they don’t practice what they preach. They burden people yet do nothing to ease their burden. They perform works to be seen, and they love places of honor at banquets, in synagogues, in marketplaces, and the salutation “Rabbi.” Of this, Jesus says, “Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven. Do not be called ‘Master’; you have but one master, the Christ.” What places of honor do I go routinely seeking, even among family members, and how can I find ways to humble myself instead?
God, you guide us through the words and actions of your Son away from the pursuit of honor and pride. Rather than giving you glory, seeking honor and upholding pride result in a sustained delusion of one’s worth and the mistreatment of others. “You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers,” Jesus says. Open my eyes, Lord, to the dignity of my brother and sister, however I encounter them today, and let me be their servant in accomplishing your will. “He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me,” today’s Psalm says, “and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.” Let me praise you alone, God, for your glory.
Lord, in the commotion of this day, give me the grace to remember that you are my one Father in heaven. Stay with me; show me the way to accomplish the work of the day as I do your will and put mine aside.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
Jesus said to his disciples: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
In today’s reading, Jesus speaks not to the scribes and Pharisees but to his disciples. He speaks privately to them about mercy, forgiveness, and generosity. He tells them to stop judging and stop condemning, which echoes the proscriptions of the Ten Commandments, such as “You shall not steal” and “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Then Jesus goes on to name other ways to be merciful: “Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap.” For every act of mercy, mercy is returned. “For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”
God, help me understand the overflowing measure of your mercy. It isn’t the result of a kind of recompense, where the measure of mercy given comes back as a reward for being merciful to others. Instead, you invite us to be merciful as you are merciful and to forgive as you forgive. You set the standard high yet are merciful when we fail to reach it. “So be perfect,” Jesus says, “just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Yet for every wrong I acknowledge in my heart and in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, you restore me to your grace and friendship in forgiveness. And the measure of it you give is “packed together, shaken down, and overflowing.” There is no greater model for this kind of mercy than Jesus your Son.
From the Gospel acclamation, let me remember today: “Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life; you have the words of everlasting life.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
While [Peter] was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate and were very much afraid. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and do not be afraid.” And when the disciples raised their eyes,
they saw no one else but Jesus alone.
Matthew describes the Transfiguration of Jesus and its overwhelming effect on its witnesses Peter, James, and John. It is as if the appearance of Moses and Elijah is just enough for them. Seeing Jesus’ face shine like the sun as he converses with the two prophets, Peter suggests that they build three tents, one for each of them. And then, even as he is still speaking, Peter and the others hear the voice of God speaking to them from a bright cloud that overshadowed them. The disciples fall prostrate in fear, and it is Jesus’ touch and gentle command “Rise, and do not be afraid” that allow them to raise their eyes.
God, help me take in today’s reading. I can’t know what it means to experience the Transfiguration as the disciples experienced it. Fear and awe follow it as the disciples hear your voice on the mountain. Seeing their fear, Jesus touches them and commands them to rise and be unafraid. Yet, what I have access to, the disciples did not have: your presence in the Eucharist and in the sacraments. Is there any less awe and fear in knowing that you are present in that form, no less real than you were present to the disciples? Lord, let me hear and know your voice today with the reverence it deserves, and let me rise unafraid to do your will.
From the prayer of Saint Padre Pio after Holy Communion: “Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You. Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches the disciples about love of enemies as part of the Sermon on the Mount. He teaches them about the fulfillment of Mosaic law, about anger, adultery, divorce, and retaliation. In today’s passage on love of enemies, Jesus begins with the Old Testament way of thinking—love your neighbor and hate your enemy—and turns it upside down by telling the disciples to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. The reason for this, Jesus goes on to say, is so that the disciples may be children of the heavenly Father.
God, help me understand your ways. To love my enemies is to go against instinct and to call me to perfection. “So be perfect,” Jesus says, “just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Part of what makes it hard to love my enemies is to admit that I have enemies and hold grudges that keep them my enemies. Open my eyes, God, to my inability to pray for those who have hurt me and forgive them; help me make a return to you in childlike love and trust.
Teach me, Jesus, to love my enemies—the ones I encounter today and the ones I don’t see coming—so that your Spirit within me prays for them and forgives them. Lord, let me know you are near!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
In today’s Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus tells his disciples about the necessity of righteousness and reconciliation. What good is a gift or sacrifice of any kind if behind it lies resentment and division. First, Jesus says, reconcile with your brother and only then offer your gift. Jesus tells his disciples to forgive others not to suggest the foundation of a new social order but to offer us life itself, everlasting life. As the Lord says in the first reading from Ezekiel: “If the wicked man turns away from all the sins he committed, if he keeps all my statutes and does what is right and just, he shall surely live, he shall not die.”
God, help me understand that what your Son tells me in today’s Gospel, I hear whenever I pray the Our Father: forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Out of your mercy and through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, you forgive me my sins. How can I be merciful to others unless I recognize the depth of your mercy? “If you, O LORD, mark iniquities, LORD, who can stand? But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered.” Through reconciliation with my brother and with you, I am able to come to you in the Eucharist with the gift of self, freed from sin and division.
Lord, let me remember today to trust in your mercy: to ask for it, to be merciful, and to completely trust in it.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asked for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asked for a fish? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.”
Jesus relates to the disciples the need to pray sincerely. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” In these short teachings, Jesus makes clear the need to ask, seek, and knock in prayer. In response, God’s perfect generosity is poured out in return. Although what we receive in prayer may not be exactly what we asked for, Jesus tells us that it will be so much more than what a father offers his son to sustain him.
God, help me take to heart two simple things your Son tells me about prayer: ask and receive. In order to receive the good things you give me, open my eyes to see that your will being done, not mine, is the good that I often fail to recognize. I want to remember today to ask you for help in knowing and doing your will, and I want to receive with a widened heart the good you give me that I might otherwise not see.
Lord, here I am before you. I ask for the grace today to know that you are with me. Let me recognize in the succession of moments that make up the day that as a loving Father you always give good gifts. Help open my hands to receive those gifts.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
“This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus refers to the first reading from Jonah, who traveled throughout Nineveh, announcing that in forty days the city would be destroyed. But when the king of Nineveh heard Jonah’s announcement, he called for man and beast alike to be covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God, turning from evil and renouncing violence. Their faith in God’s mercy saved them: “When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way,” Jonah says, “he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.” Jesus compares himself to Jonah, but as Jesus says of himself as the savior of all through his death and resurrection, “there is something greater than Jonah here.”
God, open my eyes to the meaning of the Gospel as it relates to this day. No sign will be given this generation, says Jesus, except the sign of Jonah. Jesus’ sign as the Son of God would mean that through his Passion, death, and resurrection, repentance would lead not only to a new life in him but in everlasting life. Father in heaven, your Son is your final word. He is what he points to: the God of the living. The invitation to share in eternal life with the Father begins through repentance and recognizing the need to return to you. From the Gospel acclamation: “Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart for I am gracious and merciful.”
Thank you, Lord, for your loving presence. Let me rest in that today and make a place for it in my heart. “A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”
In today’s Gospel reading from Matthew, Jesus follows his teaching on almsgiving by showing the disciples how to pray. The Our Father, the perfect prayer that Jesus gives to us as a way to communicate with God, is a reaching out to Our Father, who knows what we need before we ask him. Jesus tells us: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them.” In recognizing that God gives us everything we need every day and forgives our trespasses, the Our Father calls us to be merciful just as God is merciful: “Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church says this about forgiving others: “It is impossible to keep the Lord’s commandment by imitating the divine model from outside; there has to be a vital participation, coming from the depths of the heart, in the holiness and the mercy and the love of our God. Only the Spirit by whom we live can make ‘ours’ the same mind that was in Christ Jesus. Then the unity of forgiveness becomes possible and we find ourselves ‘forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave’ us.”
God, help me understand that imitation of your divine forgiveness comes from the heart through the grace and mercy you pour forth. I ask you for the grace to have the mind of Christ in praying the Our Father and in forgiving others. Your Son called us to be perfect just as you are perfect. Perfect in me the means to receive your love so that I can be a means of it to others in mercy and forgiveness.
Work with me today, Lord, and work through me. And let me say at the end of the day that I have known the Father’s embrace.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus shares with his disciples an image of the final judgment. When the Son of Man comes in his glory, he will separate the righteous from the unrighteous (the sheep and the goats) based on their treatment of others. Jesus recognizes the good deeds of the righteous—their kindness and compassion toward others—while he condemns the unrighteous saying of them: “And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” But of the righteous, Jesus says: “Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”
God, help me understand that how I treat others directly relates to my relationship with you. It is not that I daily encounter the physically hungry, or naked, or those who are ill or in prison. Where are the hungry, the naked, the ill, and those in prison who are closest to me? Help me satisfy even among my own family the hunger for compassion or the need for a burden to be lifted. I want to welcome those opportunities for the sake of your glory. But I first have to recognize when that opportunity to care for another is right before my eyes.
Thank you, Lord, for the gift of your presence! In that light, I have the hope of being merciful even as I trust in you to be completely merciful. Let me remember today to ask for your mercy so that I can be a means of it to others.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” He said in reply, “It is written: One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the desert for the purpose of being tempted by the devil. Twice, Satan tempts Jesus beginning with the words “If you are the Son of God.” In Jesus’ many encounters with the evil spirits that he rebuked, the spirits recognize Jesus immediately by saying “I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” Satan knows well that Jesus is the Son of God; it is the Father of Lies who tries to weaken Jesus by questioning his divine identity. In the same way, the first reading from Genesis shows how Satan questioned Eve, weakening her reliance God’s word: “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?”
God, help me understand how to face temptations as Jesus did. He gives us the exact way to respond when tempted: not through argument buy by invoking your holy name. “One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.” And “You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.” Jesus says to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.” For every lie Satan presents to Jesus, he refutes it with truth, the word that comes forth from your mouth. By saying “Get away, Satan!” Jesus declares his divine authority as your Son. Just as you spoke light into existence, Jesus speaks and Satan leaves him.
When tempted, Lord, let me look to what follows as Jesus conquers temptation. “Then the devil left him,” Matthew says, “and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.” When I am tempted, Lord, and desire what I want when I want it, let your Spirit within me speak your name, my Lord and my God.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus calls Levi, a tax collector, to follow him, and Levi responds by giving a great banquet for Jesus. When criticized by the Pharisees for eating with sinners, Jesus says that he came to call sinners, not the righteous, to repentance. He says, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.” It is nothing short of wholeness that Jesus invites Matthew into. Luke tells us that Matthew left everything behind. The result of that, as the first reading from Isaiah says, is renewed strength: “Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday . . . He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails.”
God, help me understand what Matthew came to learn. In inviting Matthew to follow you, you brought him into healing and wholeness. Let me see in that an invitation for me as well and the conversion that results from recognizing my need for your Son, the Divine Physician. As in the Responsorial Psalm, I pray for this recognition. “Incline your ear, O LORD, answer me, for I am afflicted and poor.” Give me the grace today to put pride and self-reliance aside to receive your mercy. As French priest Father Jacques Philippe suggests, self-emptying allows you, Lord, space to work within me: “We have a hard time accepting that we are poor of heart. To receive everything from the mercy of God—to accept that God is our source of richness and not ourselves—requires a great poverty of heart.”
Lord, bestow on me the poverty of heart that makes room for you for me to follow you and do your will.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.”
Jesus responds to the disciples of John and to the Pharisees by comparing himself to the bridegroom. When the bridegroom is taken away, then the fasting will follow. Because Christ is the bridegroom, the Church is is bride. And when the Church fasts, she fasts in mourning because Christ has been taken away. The kind of fasting Christ calls us to the LORD makes known in the first reading from Isaiah: “This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; Sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own.”
God, help me understand the goodness that comes from a contrite, humbled heart. As the psalmist says, “My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.” In avoiding evil and doing good, I live so that you many be with me. Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus presents his disciples with a paradox—a seemingly contradictory teaching that describes a spiritual truth: to lose your life in following Christ is to save it. Another paradox: to deny yourself in taking up your cross is to find in Christ your true identity. Doing this daily can feel like driving on the wrong side of the street to reach a destination; it’s counterintuitive. What can I do today to drop a seemingly vital action for the sake of taking up my cross? And in taking up my cross daily, I have the hope of gaining new life in Christ. Do I hold that truth in my heart?
God, in recognizing that I easily become discouraged when clinging to my own ways, I want to understand how self-denial leads me on a path toward following you. What am I clutching in fear that would seem to spell disaster when letting go of it? If there is not one big thing I can think of, please give me the grace to identify something I can forgo that instinct seems to say is vital. God, let me desire not to gain a greater share of the world today but to lose that share for the sake of saving my life through Christ. Let me come to know the hope that springs from letting go and allowing you to lead me. Saint Polycarp, martyr of the faith, pray for us!
Thank you, Lord, for the gifts of intellect and will that lead me to know and choose you. Make yourself known to me today!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.”
In today’s Gospel reading for Ash Wednesday, Jesus tells his disciples three key things that are vital for Lent: give alms, pray, and fast. In giving alms, he says, give secretly so that God will repay you in secret. Do the same in prayer, Jesus says, not drawing attention to yourself. And in fasting, Jesus says, “anoint your head and wash your face, so that you may not appear to be fasting, except to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you.” What is Jesus saying about a relationship with the Father that is brought about by prayer, fasting, and almsgiving?
God, help me hear the words that Jesus spoke to the disciples, recognizing that they are likewise spoken to me in the present day. In the first reading from Joel, the words “return to me with your whole heart” invite anyone who hears them into relationship with God, who is gracious and merciful and “slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment.” God, through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, you give us a means to return wholeheartedly to your mercy, as Saint Paul says, to be reconciled to you.
During the distribution of the ashes, the priest or minister says, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” They might say instead: “Repent and believe in the gospel.” Lord, help me think of this moment throughout the day as I prepare to receive the ashes and afterward. It is another opportunity to spend time with you in the inner room of the heart, your means of sustaining in me a willing spirit. From the Gospel acclamation: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”
After hearing Jesus tell them that “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, the disciples discuss who is the greatest among them as they begin a journey through Galilee. Jesus’ response to them shows that to be the greatest means to be the servant of all, as will be fulfilled in his coming suffering and Passion. By placing a child in the midst of the disciples, Jesus elevates the place of childlike faith in receiving both him and the One who sent him, the Father. How can I trust the Father today in serving others in childlike faith?
God, help me understand the words of your Son, the servant of all. Jesus told the disciples, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” Let me have no delusion about what it means to be the servant of all. It means laying down my life in small sacrifices and if necessary, the ultimate sacrifice. Let me trust in your mercy, God. As Sirach says in the first reading: “You who fear the LORD, wait for his mercy, turn not away lest you fall. You who fear the LORD, trust him, and your reward will not be lost.”
Lord, just as Jesus said he would be handed over and killed, he also said he would rise. “Where now are the world’s many powerful men?” asked Saint Peter Damian. “If you should examine their graves, would you not find that their entire body, before which the world was forced to tremble, scarcely weighs a single pound?” Lord, help me remember that in serving you I may be hated by all because of your name but that in the end, not a hair on my head will be destroyed. Saint Peter Damian, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering, rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”
Today’s Gospel follows immediately after the Transfiguration and takes place as Jesus came down from the mountain with Peter, James, John. A man brings his possessed son to Jesus’ disciples, but they are unable to heal him. Jesus arrives and asks the father how long the boy has been possessed. The father responds that the possession has been ongoing since childhood and pleads with Jesus to help if he can. Jesus replies, “‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith” to which the father responds with a request for help in his own faith, crying out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!” Jesus then commands the unclean spirit to leave the boy, and after throwing the boy into convulsions, he is healed. The disciples ask Jesus why they were unable to heal the boy, and he tells them that this kind of demon can only be driven out by prayer.
God, help me understand today’s Gospel in light of my own experiences. Although I have not been a witness to such a dramatic possession or healing as Mark describes, I can think of areas of my life that only prayer to the Father can heal. There are moments in life when, like the boy’s father, I cry out, “I do believe, help my unbelief.” God, when I feel hopeless and dead to your Spirit and goodness, help me with my unbelief and take me by the hand to raise me up.
Lord, thank you for the gift of your presence. Stay with me today and keep me from all that might separate me from you.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus said to his disciples: “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.”
In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus continues to speak to the disciples about the Old Testament teachings, bringing to fulfillment each one beginning with the words “But I say to you.” What Jesus proclaims reveals his divine authority to bring about the New Covenant. “You have heard that it was said,” Jesus says, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil.” And he says: “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” What is the aim of all of this? What is it’s end? Jesus says, “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Alone, with self-reliance as the only ally, this is an impossible task. But God makes being perfect possible.
God, help me understand that along with the command to achieve perfection, your perfect mercy accompanies me along the way. The way to become your children, Jesus says, is to pray for those who persecute us. The rest is not up to me. It is you, God, who make your sun rise on the bad and the good; it is you who causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. Thanks be to God, that task is out of my hands!
Lord, let me keep in mind today’s Gospel acclamation: “Whoever keeps the word of Christ, the love of God is truly perfected in him.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
In today’s Gospel, Mark relates the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus as he is present with Peter, James, and John. During the Transfiguration, Jesus’ clothes become dazzling white and then Elijah and Moses appear to Jesus, conversing with him. Terrified and struggling to find words, Peter suggests that they make three tents—one for Jesus, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. Then a cloud envelops them, which Matthew describes as a “bright cloud,” and a voice comes from it, the loving voice of God the Father. Suddenly, Mark tells us, the disciples no longer see anyone but Jesus alone with them. On their descent from the mountain, Jesus charges them “not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.” Today we have what the disciples did not yet have: the risen Christ among us. As God’s children, what does that call for so that we can hear the Father say to us what he said to his Son?
God, help me understand today’s Gospel reading. In it, Jesus answers Peter, John, and James when they ask him what rising from the dead meant. Their understanding of your word in the Scriptures informs them that Elijah must come first. Just as Elijah preceded Jesus to restore all things, so did John the Baptist. “Yet,” Jesus says, “how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt?” As for John, King Herod had him beheaded. With all of this to take in, let me remember the loving words you spoke to your Son during the Transfiguration, giving him authority to be heard as the Word Incarnate.
Lord, overshadow me today with the bright cloud of your presence; in it, I want to be your beloved son. I can’t see you, but I know you are with me. “Faith is the realization,” Saint Paul says in the first reading, “of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” God, strengthen my faith today and let me hear your voice!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the Gospel will save it.”
Speaking to the disciples as well as to the crowds, Jesus addresses all who would hear him. It is a universal message spoken for the salvation of the whole world. The counterintuitive instruction to deny oneself and lose one’s life for the sake of saving it calls all into authentic relationship with God. Once in that relationship, having reached out toward him, the cross becomes the way to salvation. What is the purpose of this life unless it is to gain eternal life with the Father who made us? As the psalmist says, “From his fixed throne he beholds all who dwell on the earth, He who fashioned the heart of each, he who knows all their works.” Jesus’ call to holiness is universal because it is the Father who made the heart of each of us.
Help me understand, God, what it means to pick up my cross today. It is too great a scope for me to imagine what that means in days or weeks or years to come. Give me the grace today to recognize my cross and pick it up. Loving Father, teach me the way to gain everlasting life rather than forfeiting it on passing things. Lord, guide me today and give me the courage to come after you.
Thank you, Lord, for the call to follow you. When you come in the Father’s glory with the holy angels, may it be that I lived a life worthy of that call.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
Along the way to Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They tell Jesus that some people say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets. Then Jesus asks them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter says to him: “You are the Christ.” Seconds later, Peter rebukes Jesus for saying that he must suffer and die (and rise after three days), and Jesus says to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan.” I can only imagine how Peter felt—one minute in what must have been a mountaintop moment as he recognizes Jesus as the Messiah and the next minute brought right back down to earth: “You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
God, help me understand how to recognize my human limitations and to strive to think as you do. I’m not sure what it might mean to think as you do except to die to my limitations in this life so to rise with Christ. As Jesus says in Matthew about the conditions of discipleship: “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” To consider discipleship in this way echoes what Jesus says would follow his Passion and death: the resurrection. To think as you think, God, is to know that death does not have the final word. There is great joy in that—something Peter himself would come to see when he saw the empty tomb and encountered the risen Christ.
Lord, help me hear your voice today, teach me to offer you my “prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.” Throughout the day, let me hear you ask me, “Who do you say that I am?” I want to answer with complete trust: “You are the Christ.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Putting spittle on his eyes Jesus laid his hands on the man and asked, “Do you see anything?” Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.”
The people in Bethsaida bring to Jesus a blind man and beg Jesus to touch him. Jesus leads him outside the village to cure him. At first, the man sees only indistinctly. Then Jesus lays hands on the man’s eyes a second time, and he sees clearly. What did Jesus see in the people of the village? Were they coercing him into performing a miracle? And why did the man see only partially the first time Jesus laid hands on the man? Partial faith, partial sight. In the first reading from Genesis, Noah receive partial answers as he sends out birds to see if the floodwaters are receding. In both readings, what is partial becomes whole as Noah sees the fullness of God’s mercy and the blind man sees distinctly. Jesus sends the man home and tells him not to return to the village. It may be that to return to the village was to return to a place of little faith.
Thank you, God, for meeting me where I am at those times when my faith is less than complete. You constantly send forth your Spirit through your Son to strengthen me in unending love. As the Responsorial Psalm says, “May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts, that we may know what is the hope that belongs to his call.”
Be patient with me, God, in the little faith I have. Just as you are patient with me, let me be at peace in you when I meet others today who seem to lack conviction in what is true and good and beautiful.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
When he became aware of this he said to them, “Why do you conclude that it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear? And do you not remember, when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?”
Jesus responds to the disciples, who had brought only one loaf with them in the boat, first by saying, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” And then: “Why do you conclude that it is because you have no bread?” Is it possible that the disciples failed to recognize that Jesus could just as well provide for them as he had for the five thousand by breaking and sharing the five loaves? The leaven of the Pharisees and Herod—only a little bad leaven added to a large batch contaminates the whole. The limitations of tradition and customs—even natural law—can limit the ability to see God at work in creation and to cooperate with it.
God, I have little to give and often forget you; open my mind to understand today’s Gospel. Act in me through the Holy Spirit to see how your will is being done today.
Thank you, God, for your abundant gifts! I ask you to be present with me today by keeping your word. As the Responsorial Psalm says, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; and my Father will love him and we will come to him.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
The Pharisees came forward and began to argue with Jesus, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. He sighed from the depth of his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” Then he left them, got into the boat again, and went off to the other shore.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus had just performed the Miracle of the Loaves, feeding a large crowd, when the Pharisees approach him. It’s not difficult to imagine Jesus getting out of the boat to talk with the Pharisees. It would also be understandable to see Jesus displaying frustration at the Pharisees, especially after performing the miracle with the loves and the fishes. Instead, Mark tells us, Jesus sighs and gets into the boat again to go to the other shore. The boat would seem to symbolize the Church here, where Jesus travels in it elsewhere to preach that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. We know from other Gospel passages that when Jesus wanted to pass through Samaria he was not welcomed and went by another way.
Help me understand, God, that there comes a certain restlessness of spirit from asking for signs from heaven that no number of signs will satisfy. Just as Jesus sighed from the depth of his spirit, do you sigh at me when I ask for something you have provided already but I fail to recognize? I don’t need to think long to realize that in whatever place I pass through that seems dry and deserted, you are there to sustain, as Jesus did with the loaves and the fishes. However grand my human aims and aspirations might be, you far surpass them in ways I sometimes fail to see; for that, Lord, how can I not give you thanks and praise? Help me know you are near.
God, thank you for hearing me! Be present with me today, not as a way to test you but because I know I need your grace to sustain me. Keep me in your care!
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In today’s Gospel, Jesus continues preaching the Sermon on the Mount. In the Gospel passage, he refers to the Ten Commandments in speaking to them about the law and its fulfillment. For each of the laws that he teaches about, such as You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment, he follows with the words and introduces his teaching by saying “But I say to you.” Jesus says to the disciples at the beginning of the passage: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.” He goes on to address anger, lust, adultery, and falsehood. For each of these, Jesus does not offer his opinion but Truth and Wisdom itself, the Son of God, speaking of right relationships with the Father.
God, help me grasp the meaning of today’s Gospel as it applies to the choices I make today. The evil one excels at subtle deception. In his compassion, your Son looks deep into the human heart to teach the disciples—to teach all of us—where sin occurs. From within our hearts, choices lie before us, says Sirach, of fire and water, life and death, good and evil. As Jesus says about false oaths, “Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the evil one.” By this, your Son guides us to depend on you through the Holy Spirit in discerning the mysteries of your kingdom and keeping your words.
From the Responsorial Psalm: “Instruct me, O LORD, in the way of your statutes, that I may exactly observe them. Give me discernment, that I may observe your law and keep it with all my heart.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?”
These words of the disciples from today’s Gospel are in response to Jesus’ compassion for the crowd that had been following him for three days. He is afraid that on their long journey home the people will collapse along the way. Jesus replies to the disciples question: “How many loaves do you have?” They told him seven. Mark tells us that Jesus ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the seven loaves and some fish, he gives thanks, breaks the bread, and gives the food to his disciples to distribute. After the four thousand people ate and were satisfied, the leftover fragments filled seven baskets. Jesus satisfies and fills the crowd physically and spiritually. In response to the disciples’ question, “enough bread to satisfy,” Jesus goes far beyond expectation in his extravagant love and compassion for the crowd.
God, open my eyes and my mind to understand today’s Gospel. After Jesus fed the crowd, he dismissed them and went by boat with his disciples to the region of Dalmanutha. I can’t help seeing in Jesus’ dismissal of the crowd the same dismissal at the end of every celebration of Mass when the priest or deacon says, “Go, you are dismissed,” which translated from Latin is “Ite, missa est.” Thank you, God, for the Eucharist, for the supersubstantial bread to sustain me in this life as I strive to live in the light of your glory in the life to come. Let me be dismissed to know and do your will.
In restlessness, Lord, nothing is enough, nothing satisfies. Take the little I have, as you did the seven loaves, and do with it what you will. I ask for the grace today to know your will, to know you are present, placing me far beyond my own idea of what is enough.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to tell anyone.
As Jesus leaves the district of Tyre and goes by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, people bring to him a deaf man who has a speech impediment. Jesus takes the man away from the crowd to heal him, and Mark tells us exactly what Jesus does to restore his speech and hearing. The crowd, seeing this say, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” By taking the man away from the crowd, he sets him apart from others in his individual identity; that is, he calls him by name and looks up to heaven—to his Father—and intercedes in prayer before curing him. Jesus does the same today through Baptism, as we are configured to Christ, and through his intercession at the right hand of the Father.
God, just as you formed Adam out of clay and breathed life into him, you restored the deaf man to health with your word. Help me understand that you are the living God and that we would cease to exist without the breath of your Spirit. Open my heart today, Lord, to listen to the words of your Son, who calls me away from the crowd to receive his unfathomable love.
Lord, I know you love me, but I am bound to forget that as the day unfolds. Call me back and open my ears to hear your voice, and teach me to desire your guidance and to trust you completely. Saint Scholastica, pray for us! As Saint Gregory the Great said of her, “She was able to do more because she loved more.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
She replied and said to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.” Then Jesus said to her, “For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
The woman who speaks these words in today’s Gospel is Syrophoenician, a Gentile. Still, aware that Jesus is nearby, she begs him to drive a demon out of her daughter. Referring to Jews, Jesus says to her in words that seem harsh: “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” Whether it helps to soften Jesus’ statement, consider that some translations from Greek include “house dog” or “puppy.” But what appears to be abrasive evokes in the woman greater faith. The woman’s reply to Jesus is a profession of faith in God’s mercy: “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.” When the woman goes home, she finds her daughter lying in bed, the demon gone. Jesus sees in the woman a mirror of his compassion; her faith in the Lord saves her daughter.
Help me, God, take to heart today’s Gospel to become a mirror of your compassion. Through your Son, the woman found healing and wholeness for her daughter. Today how can I look within as you caused the woman to look within to bring forth greater faith in you? The woman came to you first in falling at your feet and then by calling on your mercy from the depths of her heart. When my prayers seem to sputter and fail, grant me the grace to persist in calling on your name wholeheartedly to know you better.
Lord, to touch only the tassel of your cloak is to receive your healing and mercy in its fullness. Give me the grace today to be aware of you, asking like a child for things great and small. Be with me, Lord, as I strive to hear your voice!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
“But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus speaks to the crowd and tells them: “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” Mark tells us that Jesus’ disciples later questioned him about this. He told them that everything that goes into us from the outside cannot defile but that what comes out of us, from our hearts, defiles. From the heart, Jesus says, come evil thoughts. God does not impose his will on his people but gives them the freedom and responsibility to choose between good and evil.
God, open my eyes to understand today’s Gospel reading. The list Jesus presents of the things that defile is not exhaustive; yet, the result for anything that defiles is the same: folly. The meaning of the word is similar to foolish and comes from an Old French word meaning “madness.” Help me, Lord, in the decisions I make throughout the day to remain sound of mind by choosing to do good and pure in spirit by asking for your grace.
Lord, thank you for the words you spoke in private to your disciples. Keep me in your care today with your word. As the Gospel acclamation says: “Your word, O Lord, is truth: consecrate us in the truth.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
“You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.” He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!”
The Pharisees and scribes notice that the disciples of Jesus eat their meals with unwashed hands and return from the marketplace without purifying themselves, according to tradition. They question why Jesus and his disciples don’t follow tradition, and Jesus responds that they are hypocritical, quoting Isaiah: “This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.” Jesus calls them out for playing the system, making clear to them that their hypocrisy is self-serving rather than a means of serving God and others (even their parents).
God, help me understand what Jesus addresses in today’s Gospel. It is not a question of following or not following tradition of the elders that is wrong but setting aside or nullifying the authentic word of God for the sake of selfishness. Lord, help me understand the reality of the choices placed before me today—whether to follow your word and remain singlehearted or to pretend to do something that appears to be good but is actually self-serving. Help me put aside what is hypocritical and be attentive to your will so that I can carry it out.
Lord, you created me in your divine image. Stay with me today as I look beyond traditions or practices or habits that hinder me from being attentive to you; I want to incline my heart to your decrees. Thank you for the Eucharist and the Blessed Sacrament. Let me remember throughout the day the words of Saint John Paul II: “In the Eucharist we have Jesus, we have his redemptive sacrifice, we have his resurrection, we have the gift of the Holy Spirit, we have adoration, obedience and love of the Father. Were we to disregard the Eucharist, how could we overcome our own deficiency?” Be with me, Lord!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.
In today’s Gospel, Mark describes Jesus’ entrance by boat to Gennesaret. The passage follows the story of Jesus walking on water toward the disciples. Mark says that people scurried about the surrounding country to find Jesus, bringing the sick to him on mats. To scurry about means to run hurriedly with excitement. The people from that region who had heard of Jesus knew that something spectacular was happening that no one would want to miss. What was it they sought? His healing. That healing was connected closely to his preaching the Kingdom of God. The Gospel acclamation from Matthew says, “Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people.” Today, the Church remembers Saint Paul Miki and his companions, martyrs of Japan. While hanging on a cross, Paul Miki also preached the Gospel, saying: “The only reason for my being killed is that I have taught the doctrine of Christ. I certainly did teach the doctrine of Christ. I thank God it is for this reason I die.”
God, help me understand your universal call to holiness, no matter our station in life or where we live. It’s unlikely that I would be called to martyrdom. Yet, just as Paul Miki died willingly for the sake of his faith, I must always be willing and prepared to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom and be a means of healing.
Lord, grant me the faith of those who brought to Jesus their sick, begging for his healing. When you created the heavens and the earth, you said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. I ask for your grace today, Lord, to bring light to my life.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
“Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”
Speaking to the disciples, Jesus offers three comparisons of discipleship: salt of the earth, a city set on a mountain, and a light set on a lampstand. Each of these is for the sake of others who see good deeds and because of it give glory to God. In the second reading, Saint Paul says something similar in his letter to the Corinthians: “I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of Spirit and power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.” Just as Jesus taught the disciples to act for the sake of God’s glory, Paul carries this out in his preaching with, as he says, “a demonstration of Spirit and power.”
God, help me understand that as you spoke to the disciples, you also speak to me. When I have opportunities in the very ordinariness of today, help me grasp and carry out your will by being a light to others as a way to give you glory. In the first reading, Isaiah tells us exactly how to care for the oppressed and homeless. “Then,” he says, “your light shall break forth like the dawn.” God, give me the grace and opportunity to be a confident witness in Spirit and power to you and to my faith.
Lord, I want to live in your light and let it shine for others. As in Isaiah, I want to care for the afflicted I encounter today so that when I call you for help I hear you say, “Here I am.” Then, Isaiah says, “light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday.” Help me, Lord, see your light and live in it.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
When Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus says to the Apostles, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” So they go off by boat to a deserted place, but so many people were coming that Jesus and the Apostles had no opportunity to eat. When people saw them leaving for a deserted place, Mark tells us that people hurried there on foot to meet them there beforehand. When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity, “for they were like sheep without a shepherd.” Jesus began teaching them many things. What was going through the minds of the Apostles as they arrived at the deserted place to rest only to find a crowd waiting for them? By teaching the crowd, Jesus showed the Apostles love of the Father’s will and obedience to it.
God, help me understand your ways. Because you are all loving, people seek you tirelessly. Jesus must have felt exhausted, needing rest and nourishment, but at the same time was moved with pity by the sheep without a shepherd. They sought him to satisfy what food and nourishment could not satisfy: to hear God’s voice, to be in his presence. As the psalmist says, “And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for years to come.”
Lord, teach me to be satisfied in you alone. Jesus sought to provide rest for the Apostles, but the needs of others moved his heart to pity. Teach me to be patient today when I have to put aside my own needs to provide for the needs of others. Nourish me with your love, God, to bring your love to others through the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; That is why mighty powers are at work in him.” Others were saying, “He is Elijah”; still others, “He is a prophet like any of the prophets.” But when Herod learned of it, he said, “It is John whom I beheaded. He has been raised up.”
King Herod seems certain he knows who Jesus is. Having beheaded John, Mark tells us that Herod was “deeply distressed,” so he must have felt that there would be grave consequences for his actions. In saying that John has been raised up from the dead, Herod professes a belief in the resurrection. Although he is aware that something extraordinary and supernatural is taking place, he scratches his head and is restlessly caught up in dramatic speculation, blinded to what is taking place before him in the coming of Jesus.
God, open my eyes to understand today’s Gospel. Herod, responsible for John the Baptist’s savage execution and blinded by sin, knew that something extraordinary was happening but couldn’t identify it. Give me the grace to get beyond my own blindness and recognize that it is You who are present throughout every moment of the day.
From today’s Responsorial Psalm: “The Lord is my light and my salvation. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid? Your presence, O LORD, I seek.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
“Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel.”
Simeon speaks these words as he takes Jesus in his arms, who Mary and Joseph have brought to the temple in Jerusalem to present him in fulfillment of the law of the Lord. Luke says of Simeon: “It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.” After blessing Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, he prophesies Jesus’ role in salvation and the suffering that Mary would experience as a result “so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” The prophetess Anna also sees Jesus and, as Luke tells us, “gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem.” These two holy people, Simeon and Anna, recognized through a life of faith and prayer that Jesus was the Messiah.
God, thank you for the gift of steadfast faith. Simeon and Anna waited a lifetime to see your Son, and when they did see him recognized the child Emmanuel. Help me understand that your way of revealing yourself in time doesn’t correspond to my expectation of what and when you reveal yourself to me. Eager always to say “my eyes have seen your salvation,” at times I wait for that moment to come and lose heart in the waiting. At other times, I know you are there and at the end of the day can say, like Simeon, “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace.” God, give me the grace today to live in the light of revelation.
Lord, strengthen my faith; I want to live in your light. As Carmelite priest Father Stinissen said, “To believe in Jesus Christ makes us look, to the eyes of unbelievers, like children who believe in fairy tales. Jesus was destined to be the fall and the rising of many. Some fall over him, and others are saved by him.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
Today’s Gospel shows Jesus in his hometown. The people see the miracles he performs, yet they doubt his divinity because they acknowledge only his ordinariness, that he is a carpenter and the son of Mary. Jesus, amazed at their lack of faith, says of them: “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” Mark tells us that Jesus was unable to perform any mighty deed there because of their lack of faith; that is, they took offense at Jesus and failed to get beyond Jesus’ ordinariness to see his divine identity. But unclean spirits like those from the Gospel from Monday do recognize it, saying: “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?” Having the benefit of the testimony of the risen Christ and the Eucharist (partaking of him body and blood, soul and divinity), I can ask the same question.
God, help me understand the nature of your Son. From the Profession of Faith, we pray: “For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.” Lord, give me the grace to know your Son and how he desires trust in him in order to perform mighty deeds in ordinary lives. “What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands!”
Mary, Mother of God, pray for me today that I recognize the divinity of your Son and trust in him to perform mighty deeds. You knew him as fully human and fully divine. Let me stop to think throughout the day of the ineffable love of Jesus, Son of the Most High God. “Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.”
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So [Jesus] went in and said to them, “Why this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.” And they ridiculed him.
Today’s Gospel tells two stories: first, Jesus is on his way to the house of Jarius, to heal his daughter who is dying; second, while on the way, a woman who had been suffering from bleeding for twelve years reached out to Jesus for healing. She touched the hem of Jesus’ garment and was immediately healed. Jesus told her she was healed because of her faith, and she went away rejoicing. In the first reading, Saint Paul encourages readers to fix their eyes on Jesus and endure the discipline of the cross. Paul uses Jesus as the ultimate example of perseverance and explains that the discipline we receive will produce a harvest of righteousness and peace. Despite people ridiculing him, Jesus demonstrates his power and ability to heal to the point of raising the dead to life. “Do not be afraid”; Jesus says, “just have faith.”
Lord, help me understand that when you speak, you bring creation itself into being. When you say to the child, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!” she immediately gets up and walks around. The woman who touches your clothes is healed instantly because of her faith in reaching out for you. “Daughter, your faith has saved you,” says Jesus, “Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.” Grant me the grace, God, to go in peace today, knowing my life is in your hands. Strengthen my faith in you to avoid sin and let me trust that you “take away our infirmities and bear our diseases.” God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, give me new life today in you.
Lord, look to my needs today just as you cared for all who came to you while you walked the earth. Let me be mindful of you throughout the day, especially in the moments when I feel most alone. From the Responsorial Psalm, “They will praise you, Lord, who long for you.” Saint John Bosco, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him. But Jesus would not permit him but told him instead, “Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.” Then the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed.
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus encounters a man possessed by many demons, who calls himself Legion because there are many unclean spirits within him. Jesus sends the unclean spirits into a herd of swine that immediately run down a steep bank and die. As people come out to see what happened, they see the possessed man sitting clothed and in his right mind. By telling the man to remain and tell his family what had happened rather than to go with Jesus on the boat, Jesus finds in this an opportunity for the man to show his family the Lord’s mercy. The result was that all who heard him proclaim what Jesus had done for him were filled with amazement. Jesus, help of the helpless, moves this man from a state of wretchedness and possession to health and sanity, all out of pity for him. Where are those areas of wretchedness within myself that disgust me, that isolate me from God and from others?
God, help me understand the nature of your mercy. Many of those who came to your Son sought him out and reached out to him for help. But the most helpless, the gravely ill, the possessed, the decrepit—even the dead—you restored to new life and health out of the free gift of your mercy. Let me invite you to see those areas of my life that wield a level of power over me—unclean desires, impure intentions, sinful habits. Let me bring those into your light through the Sacrament of Reconciliation and through a daily examination of conscience. Come, Lord Jesus, and heal me by your word; let me proclaim like the possessed man what the Lord out of his great mercy has done.
Thank you, Lord, for the gift of your mercy. Jesus, just as you went on foot and by boat to restore people to sanctity, the Church today brings you through its sacraments to people thirsting for the Eucharist and Reconciliation. From the Responsorial Psalm, we pray: “They will praise you, Lord, who long for you.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
In teaching the Beatitudes, Jesus addresses his disciples and the crowds surrounding him. In Matthew’s Gospel, the Sermon on the Mount follows immediately after Jesus ministers to the multitudes following him “from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.” In teaching the Beatitudes, Jesus brings healing to the crowds, just as he healed the physical illnesses of everybody who came to him. Looking into the eyes of the people in the crowd, he must have seen those who were broken, in mourning, meek and humble; those who were wronged and sought justice; those who were merciful and pure and peaceful. And he experienced personally the same thing disciples experienced: insult and persecution because of his name. What he gave once, he still gives. To each of those whose eyes Jesus meets and who hear his words, through his great compassion Jesus gives us the Beatitudes.
God, help me understand the love you have for your people and for me. As the Son of God, you saw the pain and suffering that this world brings and experienced it firsthand. For each facet of that suffering, you bring not merely comforting words but the realization of what is hoped for in the coming of your kingdom. In faith, ours is the kingdom of heaven; comfort; inheritance; satisfaction; mercy; peace; and, one day the reward of seeing you face to face. As the Gospel acclamation says, “Rejoice and be glad; your reward will be great in heaven.”
Lord, let your gaze meet me today as I come to you to learn your love through the Beatitudes. Heal me of any particular illness or hinderance that keeps me from rejoicing and being glad in the life you have given me to come to know you. I know you love me. Lord, look kindly upon me!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”
In today’s Gospel reading, Mark describes a time in which Jesus and his disciples are out on a boat with other boats and a great storm comes upon them. The disciples are afraid and wake Jesus, asleep on a cushion, to save them. Jesus rebukes the wind and the waves, and the storm subsides. In response to Jesus’ question, “Do you not yet have faith?” they show amazement and awe at who this is that even wind and sea obey. In the first reading, Saint Paul describes the faith of Abraham when God called him to sojourn through a foreign country. He was able to do this, Paul says, not because he looked forward to his return home but because “he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.” In what ways today can I look forward to the things not seen that have their realization in God?
God, help me understand just as Abraham began his faith journey when called by God, the disciples began theirs through the astounding realization that Jesus, who calmed the storm, is the Son of God. As a sojourner, an alien, a pilgrim on this earth who hopes for the realization of things not seen, in faith I journey toward “the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.”
Give me the grace, Lord, of seeing from afar the reward of faith, the place of everlasting life that you prepare for me. Let me remember throughout the day how you calmed the storm and spoke to the disciples: “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” Lord, today when faith wavers and hope in the realization of the unseen flickers, give me more faith! Saint Thomas Aquinas, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
The Gospel from today follows directly after where yesterday’s left off. Jesus goes on to tell two other parables about the Kingdom of God: one relates to the growth of seed planted in the ground; the other, to the smallest of seeds that becomes the largest of plants, the mustard seed. In both parables, the growth of the Kingdom of God benefits the one who spreads the seed. The growth of the seed, the kingdom, is a mystery to the sower. In either parable, the sower plants but God nurtures the growth to maturity.
God, help me understand as I am able to understand the mystery described in these parables. Saint Paul in the first reading encourages us to seek the Kingdom of God by doing his will: “You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.” The result of that endurance, he says, is that “We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life.” Lord, let the little I do today in scattering seed be an act of delight and complete trust in you to bring into this reality the mysteries of the Kingdom. “Commit to the LORD your way,” the Responsorial Psalm says, “trust in him, and he will act.”
God, your Kingdom is to come and is here at this moment. I know you delight in me as I strive to grow closer to you. Let me know the joy today of active participation in your kingdom as I see it sprouting and growing of its own accord.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus said to his disciples, “Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed, and not to be placed on a lampstand? For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing is secret except to come to light. Anyone who has ears to hear ought to hear.” He also told them, “Take care what you hear. The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you. To the one who has, more will be given; from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus says two things that relate to the first reading from Saint Paul. First, he says that a lamp is to be placed on a lampstand; second, referring to spiritual capacity, he says, “To the one who has, more will be given.” Paul writes Timothy, encouraging him “not to be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of hardship for the Gospel with the strength that comes from God.” Through Paul’s imposition of hands in apostolic succession, Timothy is stirred into flame with a spirit of courage, power, love, and self-control. Through the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation, that same power of the Holy Spirit is manifested whenever I give testimony to the Lord everywhere and at every opportunity. As the psalmist says, “Proclaim God’s marvelous deeds to all the nations.”
God, help me understand how to put the words of Scripture and the work of the Holy Spirit into practice today. I ask for today because tomorrow’s path is uncertain. Today I ask for abundant grace to receive all the gifts you wish to measure out to me so that I can measure it out in abundance to others. Saints Timothy, Titus, and Paul, pray for us!
Lord, teach me to do your will; I want to bring into your light all the obstacles that keep me from you—a difficult, scary thing to ask—in order to receive your grace more abundantly.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Mark describes Jesus’ appearance to the Eleven after his resurrection. In the last chapter of Mark’s Gospel, Jesus commissions the Apostles to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world. Certain signs will accompany those who believe, including learning new languages, driving out demons, and handling serpents. Taking place immediately after the resurrection, the commissioning by Jesus hints at the coming of the Holy Spirit and some of the supernatural gifts that result from the Third Person of the Trinity.
God, help me see the particular gifts of the Holy Spirit working in me today. I can’t pretend to understand this, but I ask for understanding only insofar as my understanding brings me closer to you. After Paul’s conversion, unable to see, he was led to Damascus by the help of his companions. There, a devout Jew named Ananias restored his eyesight, saying, “Saul, my brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to you on the way by which you came, that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” As Paul tells the story, his sight was restored as soon as Ananias said, “Saul, my brother, regain your sight.” Help me, Lord, be open to the friendship of others who bring me close to you through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Thank you, God, for the light of your presence! Pray for us, blessed Apostle Paul!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
“Your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you.” But he said to them in reply, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
In today’s Gospel, the mother and brothers of Jesus arrive where he his preaching and send word through the crowd to him that they are there. Jesus’ reply seems harsh to his family. Yet, what he says does not exclude them but rather embraces them within the family of those who do the will of God. Saint Paul quotes the psalmist in the first reading: “First he says, Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.” Referring then to Jesus, Paul says: “Behold, I come to do your will. He takes away the first to establish the second. By this ‘will,’ we have been consecrated through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
God, help me understand your will and through that understanding, a desire to do it. Grant me the grace today to see you in the faces of people I meet and in all of the day’s decisions. With the Morning Offering, I pray: “O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.”
From today’s Psalm: “Here am I Lord; I come to do your will. Your justice I kept not hid within my heart; your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of; I have made no secret of your kindness and your truth in the vast assembly.” Stay with me, Lord. Saint Francis de Sales, pray for us!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus began to speak to the scribes in parables: “Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.”
In today’s Gospel, the scribes say that Jesus is possessed by Beelzebul and that by the prince of demons, he drives out demons. Jesus then calls the scribes to him and says, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.” Kingdom divided against kingdom; house against house: How does this describe our nation today? According to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, in all the Dioceses of the United States, January 22 is observed as a particular day of prayer. As it states, this day is “for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life and of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion.”
God, help me understand the words of Saint Paul from the first reading: “Christ is mediator of a new covenant . . . now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice.” Through your grace, help me by my prayers, words, and actions affirm that abortion is wrong and that every life is sacred. Restore and unite us, Lord, in the love through which you created us.
From the collect for today’s Mass: “God our Creator, we give thanks to you, who alone have the power to impart the breath of life as you form each of us in our mother’s womb; grant, we pray, that we, whom you have made stewards of creation, may remain faithful to this sacred trust and constant in safeguarding the dignity of every human life.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness among the people.
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus leaves Nazareth and goes to live in Capernaum by the sea. He did this, Matthew says, to fulfill what had been said through Isaiah: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen. Once there, while walking along the sea, he called Peter and Andrew to be “fishers of men.” They left their nets and immediately followed Jesus. He also called James and John. From there, Matthew tells us that Jesus “went around all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness among the people.”
God, help me through your grace to make certain that I understand the truth of today’s readings. In doing the will of the Father, your Son’s purpose in proclaiming the Gospel and curing every disease relate to each other. Bound through love of you, Jesus’ preaching was a way of curing people of illnesses, and his miraculous healings were a way of proclaiming the Gospel. Through this, and ultimately through laying down his life to save us from sin and death, people were restored to you: As Isaiah says in the first reading: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone.”
Help me remember, Lord, the truth of the Gospel today. Don’t let it be in vain that I hear but fail to take in your Word. As I receive you in the Eucharist, Lord Jesus, give me the strength not to be brought down in this present land overshadowed by death but to dwell in the kingdom of your light and salvation.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat. When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
Jesus’ ministry as Mark describes it in today’s Gospel begins to draw such crowds that it became impossible for Jesus and his disciples to eat. Jesus’ family, hearing of this, must have questioned Jesus’ sanity, which appeared to limit his ability to take care of his basic needs and of the disciples; namely, the need for food. Mark goes on to say in his Gospel that the scribes believed Jesus was possessed by Beelzebul. When Jesus’ mother and brothers arrive, waiting outside for him, he says to those around him: “Who are my mother and my brothers? . . . For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.” For Jesus, in a way that his family would come to understand through his life, doing the will of God was food for Jesus. As Jesus says in the Gospel according to John: “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”
God, help me understand that Christ your Son is the first to enter into eternal life through his resurrection. He sits at your right hand through his sacrifice as high priest on Calvary. Saint Paul says of this in the first reading: “But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation, he entered once for all into the sanctuary.” From within the place where Jesus has entered, the heavenly tabernacle, there is no need for food. In the Gospel according to John, Jesus himself says: “For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.” Lord, this is a lot to take in. Help me understand what it means to accept your invitation and do your will.
Thank you, God, for the extravagant love of your Son. Your blessings are double: in this life, I have the true food and true drink of the Eucharist; in the next, the hope of the resurrection in unending praise at the heavenly banquet. Be with me today, Lord!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him. He appointed Twelve, whom he also named Apostles, that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons: He appointed the Twelve.
In today’s Gospel reading, Mark describes a mountaintop moment: as Jesus appoints the Twelve, he sends them to preach the Gospel and gives them authority to drive out demons. Later in each of the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus again goes up the mountain, this time taking Peter, James, and John with him as witnesses of the Transfiguration. As Mark describes Jesus’ ascent to the mountain, the words “summoned those whom he wanted” brings to my mind being picked—or not picked—to be a teammate. If Jesus summoned me, would I do as the other Apostles did and go to him? Every day God presents a fresh opportunity to be summoned by God, to open my hands to what he entrusts me with. It might not be to high places like a mountaintop; nonetheless, God appoints me and sends me forth with his authority to do his will in word and deed.
Help me understand, Lord, the core of today’s Gospel presented in the Gospel acclamation: “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.” Here you are, Jesus, inviting me to be with you as you invited the Twelve to accompany you. Humbled by this, I ask for the grace to understand the gift I have in freely choosing to accept your invitation.
Lord, guide me today from on high to animate the mission and authority you give me. Too often I subject myself to my own limits and situational constraints; instead, let your presence transfigure me so that I can accomplish the tasks you appoint to me. Be with me, Lord!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.
In his earthly ministry, Jesus came to serve and heal all who came to him from among many regions. In heaven, Jesus serves as high priest, as Paul says in the first reading, “holy innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, higher than the heavens.” Just as the crowds pressed upon Jesus from all sides to touch him, so he intercedes for countless more souls in heaven. Paul goes on to say in the first reading: “Now he has obtained so much more excellent a ministry as he is mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better promises.”
God, help me understand that you came to do the will of your Father and that you still do that at his right hand in heaven. Help me by your example also pray that I know the will of the Father and accomplish it. With today’s Responsorial Psalm, we pray: “Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will. “In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, ‘To do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!’” Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will. The unclean spirits who saw you knew who you were—the Son of God. Give me the grace of confidence, Lord, in approaching your Son to receive his mercy.
Lord, you are the source of all healing. Just as those who had diseases pressed upon you to touch you, I also seek to be healed through your intercession and through the beauty and goodness of the sacraments of the Church. Be with me today and look after me as intercessor to the Father. “Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through him,” Saint Paul says, “since he lives forever to make intercession for them.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Then he said to the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
The Pharisees lay a trap for Jesus to see if he would cure a man’s withered hand on the sabbath. After Jesus restores the man’s hand, Mark tells us, “The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.” The Gospel passage for today shows Jesus’ grief and anger at their hardness of heart, an anger that is justifiable. As God made man, Jesus wants to bring salvation to the Pharisees, but the love he shows for the man with the withered hand becomes an obstacle. How often today will I place an obstacle between God and myself? Perhaps unintentionally, I will forget to allow God to act, following my own rigid agenda instead.
God, you are near. Your Son came to save the life of all who believed in him and to do good on the sabbath and on every day of his life. How do I remain supple and open to your will? Jesus read the hearts of the Pharisees and knew they wanted to kill him, asking them, “Is it lawful . . . to save life rather than to destroy it?” If the Pharisees had known that the author of life stood before them, would their hearts have remained hardened? Guide me today, Lord, with your presence; in every word and action, give me the grace to stretch out my hand to you.
God, give me faith today and every day through an openness of heart. As Saint John Paul II wrote, “Faith, in its deepest essence, is the openness of the human heart to the gift: to God’s self-communication in the Holy Spirit.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus said to the Pharisees: “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
In today’s Gospel passage from Mark, Jesus passes through a field of grain on the sabbath, and his disciples picked the heads of grain as they walked with him. The Pharisees see this and tell Jesus that what they are doing is unlawful on the sabbath. Jesus answers them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry? How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?” By saying this to the Pharisees, Jesus reaffirms to them the purpose of the sabbath—since his resurrection, the Lord’s Day—and at the same time reveals his divinity as “Lord of the sabbath.” Like the Pharisees, am I bound to certain rituals that prevent me from knowing God’s love and recognizing his grace even as he offers it to me?
God, you made the sabbath for your people as an invitation to return to you, to return to holiness. Help me understand the divine purpose for which you created the sabbath. In the coming of your Son, a new order comes in keeping the meaning of the sabbath holy by transferring its observance to the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, we hold the belief that “Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the Sabbath, but the Lord’s Day.” Lord of the sabbath, Lord of all, help me during the week to long to see you in the celebration of the Eucharist each Sunday.
What is left but to thank you, God, for all of your graces of this day and every day. As the Responsorial Psalm says: “He has won renown for his wondrous deeds; gracious and merciful is the LORD.”
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MONDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIMEA reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
“Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus responds to people who ask him why his disciples fast. The disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, they say, so why shouldn’t your disciples do the same? Jesus then goes on to tell them the analogy of a new piece of cloth sown on an old cloak and of new wine poured into new wineskins. Both attempts would fail. Like the new cloth and the new wine, Jesus is the Good News, the last Word of God, that simply can’t be grafted onto what came before him. As Saint Paul says of Jesus in the first reading: “And when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.”
Help me understand this, Lord. Your Son is the bridegroom and each soul who belongs to the Church, the bride of Christ. Through Jesus Christ, I participate in the ancient beauty of the Church that is always new through him, with him, and in him. As Saint Augustine says in his Confessions: “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new.” There is great hope in this, that the same Christ who died has risen to eternal life for you and for me; there is hope in the expectation of the return of the bridegroom in his Second Coming. Dying with him through baptism, we are brought into the Church and what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls “the sacrament of regeneration” to become a son or daughter of light and “a new creature.” Lord, this is a lot to take in. Help me understand the love you have for your people and deepen my faith and trust in you.
Thank you, Lord, for your presence in the Eucharist! You are beyond my comprehension, yet let me rest in your presence as a bride rests in the love of her bridegroom. Be with me today, Lord, and help me come to know the beauty I hope one day to see face to face.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’”
In today’s Gospel reading, John the Baptist sees Jesus after he had baptized him. At the moment he baptized him, John recognized Jesus’ divinity in what God had revealed to him: “On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.” John gives testimony to Jesus’ divinity by saying of him: “A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.” John’s recognition that Jesus existed before him must have come at the moment the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus during his baptism. John continues to point to Jesus today as one of many voices of the communion of saints who direct our gaze to Jesus, the Son of God. For John to say that Jesus existed before him is to be aware of God’s eternal existence that permeates every moment of this life until the next, where we give glory to God in unending praise.
God, help me understand what John the Baptist recognized in your Son. The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the child born of the Virgin Mary, the suffering servant who died and rose to new life, the Lamb of God present in the Eucharist—He is the one who brings us to eternal life through baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Lord, help me see today that you are eternally present in its succession of moments. Give me the grace to receive your presence and the knowledge to make within myself a temple of the Holy Spirit. As Servant of God, Archbishop Martínez said: “As divine love is eternal and its action constant, it is our part to have our heart always open to love, ready to receive the unspeakable gift.” Keep my heart open, Lord!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus heard this and said to them, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”
As Jesus walks along the sea, he passes by Levi, a tax collector sitting at his customs post. Jesus says to him, “Follow me.” Levi got up and followed Jesus. At his house, Jesus and the disciples sat with tax collectors and sinners, and the Pharisees accuse him by saying, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners.” Jesus, the Divine Physician, responds by saying that those who are well don’t need a physician, but the sick do. Jesus, God made man, could have chosen anyone to follow him—kings, political leaders, the rich and powerful. Instead, he chose sinners. Even Peter, on being called by Jesus, fell at his knees and says to him: “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” Just as Peter recognized his sinfulness, anyone with an illness must first acknowledge it before seeking treatment. In my own acknowledgment of particular sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Jesus seeks to heal me in a way that corresponds to each of these. How do I respond to that call?
God, help me understand that you sent your Son to set us free; “to proclaim,” as the Gospel acclamation says, “liberty to the captives.” Through the life, death, and resurrection of your Son, you understand every human need and what each one of us in particular lacks. Help me identify any sins and illnesses in me so that, as Paul says in the first reading, “I can confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.”
The demands of the day clamor in my ears. Help me be still. Lord, just as you taught the crowds as you went out along the sea, give me the grace today to walk with you and hear your words. Divine Physician, heal me and quiet my soul!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they opened up the roof above him. After they had broken through, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to him, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” Now some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves, “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?”
The Gospel passage today relates a well-known story from Jesus’ ministry to the people of Capernaum. He heals the paralytic, who rises, picks up his mat, and goes home at once. The people are astounded at Jesus’ ability to heal the man. At the same time, the scribes observe this and see blasphemy in Jesus’ actions as he forgives the man’s sins. It strikes me that the scribes witness four men breaking through the roof and fail to see the courage and determination to bring their friend to wholeness. Something profound is happening here, and they miss it—a moment not unlike at Jesus’ baptism when the heavens are opened and the voice of the Father thunders, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
God, help me learn to be a witness to the events of the day that attest to your presence. Although not as dramatic as a roof being broken through, your actions today are there for me to see if I watch out for them.
Jesus, you saw the faith of the paralytic and the men who lowered him through the roof. Give me the grace to be firm and steadfast in my faith in you. Keep me in your your care today and guide me back to you when I stray.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched the leper, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.”
In today’s reading, Jesus continues to journey throughout Galilee, preaching, driving out demons, and curing the sick. After curing the leper, he warns him not to say anything, but the man speaks about his experience, making it, as Mark says, “impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly.” He stayed in deserted places, but people kept coming to him from everywhere. Still, it was Jesus’ will that the man should be made clean, and Jesus’ pity for him is expressed in seven words: “I do will it. Be made clean.” In telling the leper to offer for his cleansing what Moses prescribed, Jesus restores the man to his community and to the means of sanctifying his life. Apart from physical health, are there mental or spiritual illnesses in society—or personal ones—that keep me from participating fully in my Catholic faith? What role do the sacraments have in restoring me to sanctity? In whatever needs to be cleansed in my relationship with Christ, today I want to hear his voice say, “I do will it. Be made clean.”
Lord, as a penitent who needs to be made clean continually, I hear your voice in the absolution after confession as the priest says: “God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of his Son has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins; through the ministry of the Church, may God give you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Help me understand that as I come to you for mercy and forgiveness, you are there to meet me because it is your will that nothing separates me from your love.
Be with me today, Lord, as I strive to keep you before my eyes. The commotion of the day distracts me, but you are there too. Your voice calls me back to you. From the Responsorial Psalm, help me recall “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”
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Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them.
In today’s Gospel, which follows directly after yesterday’s, Jesus goes on that same day to cure the sick and drive out demons. The next day he rose early to go off and pray in a deserted place when Simon and others find him. “Everyone is looking for you,” they said to Jesus. He told them, “Let us go on to the nearby villages that I may preach there also. For this purpose have I come.” Before all this, though, the day before, Jesus gives personal attention to Simon’s mother-in-law, who lay sick with a fever. He grasps her hand and helps her up, which brings to mind the way God speaks to us through Isaiah: “I, the LORD, have called you for justice, I have grasped you by the hand.”
God, help me understand the spiritual place from which Jesus was able to go “into their synagogues, preaching and driving out demons.” First, he helped Simon’s mother-in-law, then he cured the sick and drove out demons, and then went on to fulfill his purpose among humanity as the Word incarnate: true God and true man. Jesus’ healing of Simon’s mother-in-law moves me as I consider what that moment was like. He had just come from the synagogue, where he had taught and then rebuked the unclean spirit. And before he has time to rest and recharge, he approaches Simon’s mother-in-law and immediately heals her. God, let me be mindful of Jesus as servant today when I amass a list of things I’d like to accomplish as the day goes by. Give me the grace, Lord, to be an instrument of love as I see the person in front of me who would seem to stand in my way. Help rouse me when I become so self-absorbed in my plans that I fail to see what is right before my eyes.
Teach me to be your servant, Lord. From today’s Responsorial Psalm, we pray: “Glory in his holy name; rejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD! Look to the LORD in his strength; seek to serve him constantly.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
Jesus came to Capernaum with his followers, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
In yesterday’s reading describing the Baptism of the Lord, John the Baptist immediately recognizes Jesus’ divinity. Today, as Jesus teaches in the synagogue, an unclean spirit speaks to Jesus through a man possessed by it. This spirit, more than one voice speaking through the man, recognizes Jesus’ divinity as he says, “Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” How is it possible that among some people today the Evil One is not acknowledged or given any credence at all, but demons recognize and fear Jesus and continue to recognize and fear him?
To begin each day this way—recognizing the presence of the Holy One of God—is to subject myself to the will of God. The Book of Proverbs beautifully expresses this: “The beginning of wisdom is fear of the LORD, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” God, help me understand this. I have no reason to fear you; you give me everything I have out of love and goodness. Yet, to fear you is to move out of the way and trust in your Son’s authority to destroy evil and to make all things subject to you. From today’s Responsorial Psalm, we pray: “You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.” Give me the grace, Lord, to be assured today and every day that you are the Holy One of God.
Thank you, Lord, for your grace and protection. From today’s prayer after Communion from the Roman Missal: “Humbly we ask you, almighty God, be graciously pleased to grant that those you renew with your Sacraments may also serve with lives pleasing to you. Through Christ our Lord.”
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The Baptism of the Lord
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
And a voice came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Today’s reading, heard recently in a weekday reading from the Gospel according to Mark, relates the baptism of Jesus. Both Evangelists say that the voice of God came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. In the first reading from Isaiah, God speaks the same words: “Thus says the LORD: Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased.” Describing the servant that the New Testament identifies as Christ, Isaiah says: “I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand.” I can’t read this without recognizing that as God speaks about his Son as the model servant of servants, by doing that he also calls those who hear his voice to be the servant.
God the Father, you are well pleased with your Son as he is baptized. Give me all the grace needed so that you are well pleased with me also through the action of the Holy Spirit. I want to understand your will for me today and have the courage to carry it out. The words “grasp me by the hand” call to mind the image of a guide and savior, which is the very nature of your Son through the sacraments of the Church. Baptism, which removes original sin and configures me to Christ; Confirmation, the gift of the Holy Spirit, strengthening me as a servant; Reconciliation, grasping me from the pit of sin and despair; the Eucharist, which grasps me interiorly with the saving body and blood of Christ. And so on. With each sacrament, Lord, you grasp me by the hand.
Father in heaven, Lord above all, look down on me as I strive to find my identity in recognizing what you have called me for. Give me the grace to hear your voice. All glory to you, God, as we hear in the Responsorial Psalm: “The voice of the LORD is over the waters, the LORD, over vast waters. The voice of the LORD is mighty; the voice of the LORD is majestic.”
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THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORDA reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
And behold, the star that [the magi] had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped over the place where the child was. . . . They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother. They prostrated themselves and did him homage. Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way.
In today’s reading for the Epiphany of the Lord, the magi seeking the newborn king of the Jews follow a star at its rising to give the king homage. When they come from the east, they follow the star and continue as long as it draws them on. Matthew tells us that the star stopped. Over that place, Matthew tells us, that is where they found Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. How many stars have I followed in life that continue to lead me on to another and another? The star stopped over Jesus, and the magi gave Jesus homage, offering him their treasures. When they left, they went home another way, forever changed.
God, help me come to understand the light that Jesus brings to the world. When I fall and strive to rise, help me follow your light. Isaiah says of the birth of your Son: “Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you. See, darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds cover the peoples; but upon you the LORD shines, and over you appears his glory.” Help me by your grace perceive the light you shine through the Eucharist and in the faces and experiences I encounter today.
Lord, the magi knew in whose presence they prostrated themselves. Let me bask in the light of your love and trust in your the promise of your Son of eternal life in your splendor. Be with me, Lord!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.”
The familiar story of the Wedding at Cana presents what would be a crucial moment during the feast: the wine has run out. Without wine, how can the feast continue? Among the few words the Evangelists share, Mary says: “They have no wine.” She sees and understands that the feasting would end without it. Jesus says in so many words to Mary, “What has your concern got to do with me? It’s not time yet for me to go out into the world.” It is telling to see that Mary does not reply to Jesus’ question; she says instead to the servers, leaving the Son of God to act on his own will, “Do whatever he tells you.” Two elements of Mary’s nature begin at this moment to shine: her selfless intercession (“They have no wine.”) and her perfect trust in God’s will: “Do whatever he tells you.” Wine, which becomes the blood of Christ at the Last Supper, here initiates the feast in the coming of Emmanuel. The passing earthly banquet foreshadows the joy of God made man who comes to draw all into the great feast of endless length of days.
God, help me understand the beauty in this Gospel passage and allow its beauty to draw me toward Mary as a model of faith and to adopt her selflessness and abandonment to your will. Why does Jesus question Mary’s concern? The Mother of God becomes the Queen of Heaven, the ever-present intercessor of every spiritual need, who entrusts the prayers of the human family directly to her Son. Is Jesus asking her that question, not out of a kind of irony, but only to allow her to give witness to her faith in her response? “Do whatever he tells you.”
In your presence, Lord, my eyes see only so much. There is infinitely more! Give me the grace today to see your love manifested in the day’s unfolding. Be with me as I come to knowledge of your will through the material gifts that surround me. You supply me with every spiritual need; strengthen me to do whatever you tell me.
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
It happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
In yesterday’s reading from John, Jesus tells Nathanael: “you will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” Today, we see Jesus going to John the Baptist for baptism in the waters of the Jordan. As Jesus rises up out of the water, the heavens open and the Spirit descends upon him. The voice of God the Father speaks from the heavens: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” What am I a witness to day by day that is not as magnificent as the heavens opening but is still a sign of God’s love?
Lord, help me understand that in your Son there is no untruth. What he says, comes to be; just as he said to Nathanael, so it becomes reality. The baptism by John with water precedes the baptism for all by the Holy Spirit. Of Jesus, John says: “I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals.” With such humility as John’s, what truths about your nature would I hear you reveal to me? Where are the opportunities throughout each day to recognize your divine authority, presence, and unconditional love? John describes this loving presence in the gift of your Son: “God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life.”
Let me rest, here, Lord in your presence. In your Son, there is the baptism by the Holy Spirit; that is, dying and rising to new life through his resurrection. Grant me the grace, Lord, to recognize and hold in my heart today what Nathanael saw in Jesus: “You are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.” And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
As in yesterday’s reading, where Andrew brought Peter to Jesus, Philip brings his brother Nathanael to him. It’s clear that Jesus already knows him, not merely superficially, but he knows his character. “Here is a true child of Israel,” Jesus says of him. “There is no duplicity in him.” Jesus meets Nathanael where he is in his astonishment, and Nathanael acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, giving confident witness to his divinity. In turn, Jesus responds to his faith by telling him what is in store for him: “the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” If Jesus were to meet me as I go about my day, what might he call me? As he called Nathanael a “true child of Israel,” in what way would he identify my character?
Here I am, Jesus. You see me and you already know me. The wonders you tell Nathanael he will be a witness to—where has that been in my life? Have I seen the sky opened or the angels of God ascending and descending on you? I haven’t, but I should always be prepared for God to accomplish the seemingly impossible. What I have seen is that when I turn away from you, you are always present and ready to take me back as I am in unconditional love. What I believe and at the same time struggle to believe is that whether I feel it or not, whether tangible or intangible, you are Love itself, present to me in my heart and in the sacraments. Again today in the Gospel, a brother brings a brother to you. Give me the grace and the means to bring a brother or sister to you today, to give witness to your unconditional love and mercy.
Lord, let your word remain with me today. From the first reading, John writes: “If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.” You know me, Lord; help me be who you know me to be.
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MEMORIAL OF SAINT ELIZABETH ANN SETON, RELIGIOUSA reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah,” which is translated Christ. Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas,” which is translated Peter.
In today’s Gospel, as Jesus walks by, John the Baptist says to two of his disciples, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples immediately follow Jesus, who asks them what they are looking for. They ask Jesus where he is staying and he tells them, “Come, and you will see.” Andrew tells his brother Simon Peter that they have found the Messiah, and he brings him to Jesus. In calling Simon Peter Cephas, Jesus gives Peter a new identity as the rock on which Jesus will build his church. Just as I received a new name at Confirmation, Jesus invites us to come and stay with him and through his grace gives us a new identity to put on. Or, as Saint Paul says, “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” This gift beyond measure through Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection—how willingly today will I wear that, will I put on Christ?
God, help me understand the work of your Son in your choosing from among the most humble people the first apostles. The Gospel acclamation reveals how you magnified your mercy by coming to us in the person of Christ: “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets: in these last days, he has spoken to us through the Son.” Jesus, you are the Word of God made flesh; you are the Incarnate Word. Whatever you say, then, is spoken into existence. You speak through your Son; your Son speaks, and Simon becomes Peter, the rock on which you build your Church. Lord, create in me today a new identity so that I can recognize and do your will. From Psalm 51, I pray: “A clean heart create for me, God; renew within me a steadfast spirit.”
Lord, let me be clothed with Christ today. Help me through natural gifts you give me to make good decisions; through supernatural grace, guide me when I lose my way, and restore me to your presence. Lamb of God, have mercy!
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A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from the sky and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”
In Jesus, John recognizes the Son of God. John says that the “one who sent me to baptize with water” told him that he would recognize the Messiah by the Spirit coming down and remaining in him. John recognizes the divine presence of Christ by seeing and testifying that Jesus is the Son of God, as Simeon did when Mary and Joseph presented Jesus in the temple. “For my eyes have seen your salvation,” Simeon said. In my own recent experiences, words, and actions, how have I seen and testified that Jesus is the Son of God? What will I see today with my eyes that will confirm in me God’s presence through his Son?
God, help me understand that, like John, I am the one sent by you. John’s confidence in the Word of God, your Son, gave him a firm grasp of the reality of your presence; it spoke to him of his role in preparing the way for Jesus. John, freed of worldly distractions, heard your voice and followed your will. Thank you, Lord, for his example. What can I disconnect from today that will help me be more attentive to your voice so that I can grasp that you are truly present?
Lord, you seek me out and send me forth. Let me live today so that at its end, I can rest in your presence in the same way that your Spirit came down and remained with your Son. Throughout the day, grant me the grace to take courage as I listen for your voice and seek your guidance.
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Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Priests and Levites asked John: “Who are you, so we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you have to say for yourself?” He said: “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
What priests and Levites (and later, Pharisees) ask John, they would later ask Jesus in so many ways? “Who are you?” They might also have asked John “By whose authority do you baptize” ask they asked Jesus “By whose authority do you cure the sick and drive out demons.” The questions strikes at the core of one’s identity: John’s identity, Christ’s identity, and by simple extension, my identity. “Who are you” that you practice your faith by following the teachings of the Church that Christ instituted and the magisterium? I can readily say I don’t have an answer as clear and authoritative as John’s: “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord.’”
God, help me understand these readings that again focus on John the Baptist, as the readings have throughout Advent. Lord, who is John that I should listen to him? He said of your Son: “I baptize with water; but there is one among you whom you do not recognize, the one who is coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.” Help me take to heart John’s words, as relevant then as now in recognizing Christ’s presence even in his apparent absence: “but there is one among you whom you do not recognize.” Out of the desert comes a voice free of distraction, of modern-day entertainment and comforts, of the contemporary bombardment of things material and electronic that constantly demand attention. Thank you, Lord, for the voice of one crying out in the desert who through detachment of the things of this world made straight the way.
Lord, today is not straight but winding and bumpy. Through your grace let me be ready to answer the question that I ask of myself and that others ask: Who are you? Help me recognize you today in the words and actions I choose in answering that question.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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THE OCTAVE DAY OF CHRISTMAS SOLEMNITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, THE MOTHER OF GODA reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child. All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.
Today’s Gospel reading follows the passage that describes the appearance of an angel of the Lord to the shepherds. The angel found them keeping watch over their flock and told them: “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” The angel told them that a sign for them would be finding Jesus in Bethlehem wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. Luke says that all at once there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on who his favor rests.” The shepherds went in haste to find Jesus and told Mary the message of the angel. And Luke tells us Mary’s response: “And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.” The shepherds then returned, glorifying and praising God for what they had heard and seen. This Advent and Christmas, I have also been a witness to these things. Now, how do I keep all these things, and what is the way to go about sharing the joy of this message?
God, through the Blessed Virgin Mary—through her yes—marvelous wonders from heaven have been brought to earth. At the announcement of an angel, a multitude of the heavenly host appeared in the sky and gave you the highest praise and glory, “and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” In the first reading, we see this same peace that God bestowed on the Israelites when he said to Moses: “The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace!” Give me the grace, Lord, to know and receive your blessing.
The shepherds made known the message to Mary. Merciful Lord, be with me today to make me a messenger of your peace and mercy. “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” Let me remember the words of the psalmist: “May God bless us in his mercy.”
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The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God.
Today’s Gospel begins with the first words of the first chapter of John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.” The Word, Emmanuel, who was with God from the beginning came into the world through God. John says his own people did not accept him, as there will always be those who don’t accept him. But those who do believe in his name have power to become children of God, not by their choice but by God’s grace. The wording in today’s Gospel deserves rereading after rereading and never fails to nurture and edify. How can I remember just the few words “power to become children of God . . . nor by a man’s decision but of God.”?
God, help me understand the words John crafted through the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” Jesus, Emmanuel, you are and always have been consubstantial with the Father, one with Him; through Him, all things come to be so that you are itself “light [that] shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” To pray these words from the Nicene Creed is to profess the desire to be one with the Word: “We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not made, one in being with the Father.” Incarnate Word, you are the light of the human race.
Lord, what lies hidden in mystery from the beginning you reveal to me in the infant Jesus. “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” born of Mary, ever virgin. In saying Jesus’ name, I take to the way of belief and pray for constancy in the moments of unbelief. Stay with me, Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Feast of The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and JosephA reading from the holy Gospel according to MatthewHe rose, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back there. And because he had been warned in a dream, he departed for the region of Galilee. He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, He shall be called a Nazorean.
In today’s Gospel reading, Matthew tells us that an angel appeared to Joseph once again in a dream to tell him after Herod had died that “those who sought the child’s life are dead.” Joseph rose and took Mary and Jesus not to Judea, where Herod’s son now ruled, but to Nazareth. And in this way, what the prophets said would be fulfilled. Jesus was to be called a Nazorean. From today’s reading, the care Joseph gives his family is clear in his decision both to fulfill the word of the prophets and protect them from Herod’s son. Just as Joseph paid attention to the guidance of an angel of the Lord, how do I seek God’s guidance in order to accomplish his will?
Holy Family, see me and hear my prayers as a father and husband. Intercede for me to the Father that I know and understand his will. As the Responsorial Psalm says, “Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways.” Lord, teach me to honor you and be obedient to your word.
Thank you, God, for your guidance! Without you, I wander aimlessly toward an uncertain end even in daylight; with you, even if traveling by night, I know you guide me safely along the way.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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THE FIFTH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMASNow there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.
In today’s Gospel reading from Luke, Mary and Joseph take Jesus to Jerusalem according to Jewish custom to present him to the Lord in the temple. Luke tells us that the Holy Spirit revealed to Simeon that he would see Christ before his death. On taking Jesus in his arms, Simeon says, “Lord, now let your servant go in peace.” These same words are contained in the night prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours. Simeon goes on to say: “Your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you prepared in the sight of every people, a light to reveal you to the nations and the glory of your people Israel.” Simeon was, Luke says, “righteous and devout . . . and the Holy Spirit was upon him.” Saint John, in the first reading, describes the key to Simeon’s devout life of hope and expectation: “But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him.” How do I live each day so that the love of God is perfected in me?
God, as Simeon awaited the consolation of Israel, Emmanuel, so I wait for the understanding and consolation of the Holy Spirit. Help me learn how to keep your word so that your love can be perfected in me. What more in life is there left to desire once I see Christ the Lord? Yet, Simeon took in his arms and saw with his eyes what I can consume daily in the Eucharist: the body of Christ. Mary, Mother of God, as Simeon’s blessing and prophesy must have weighed unbearably on you, pray for me for the strength to endure any hardship as I await the consolation of Christ your Son.
Thank you, Lord, for your continuous presence in the Blessed Sacrament. Your body is true food; your blood, true drink. In your presence, there is no need of lamplight or sunlight because you yourself are the source of all light.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrsWhen the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Matthew says that Herod became enraged when the magi had deceived him. He then ordered that all of the boys two years old and younger in Bethlehem and the area to be murdered. Herod sought to destroy a truth he could not bear to come to the throne: Jesus, incarnate Truth. In Herod’s massacre of the Holy Innocents, great suffering and inconsolable grief came among the people of Bethlehem. As a baptism by blood, this martyrdom brought them into God’s perpetual light and mercy. Herod in his fury, would acknowledge no wrongdoing in this and deceived himself of the truth and redemption revealed in the infant Jesus. As Saint John says in the first reading: “If we say, ‘We are without sin,’ we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing.” What do I do to speak for the Holy Innocents, the unborn, who have no voice to defend or protect them?
God, help me understand that the massacre of the Holy Innocents continues today. Turn my heart in prayer to you alone who can free the Holy Innocents from slaughter. As the psalmist says, “Broken was the snare, and we were freed. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” Father almighty, Truth and Mercy itself, take my hands and my voice to make me an instrument of your will. Help me know and do your will.
Jesus, dying on the cross you destroyed death; rising, you restored life. Massacred at the command of Herod, the Holy Innocents received a baptism by blood; born into heaven, they praise you forever. Grant me the grace, Lord, to acknowledge my sins so that you can cleanse me from every wrongdoing. Lord, have mercy!
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Feast of Saint John, Apostle and evangelistThen the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.
Today’s Gospel reading from Saint John tells the story of the Resurrection, when Mary Magdalene ran to Peter and John to tell them that they had taken Jesus from the tomb. Both disciples ran to the tomb to discover that the burial cloths were placed beside where Jesus’ body had been. On seeing this, the passage says that John “saw and believed.” What prompted Peter and John to drop everything they were doing and run to the tomb? In my life, what kind of revelation would it take for my faith to elevate me to “see and believe?”
Lord, help me understand that you are God of the living. In the first reading, John writes: “What we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and touched with our hands concerns the Word of life—for the life was made visible.” Jesus, Word of life, help strengthen my faith. You, who Mary Magdalene said they had taken from the tomb, sit at the right hand of the Father. Give me the grace to use the gift of my senses to know that you are present at every Mass in the Eucharist. From the Roman Missal: “For in the mystery of the Word made flesh a new light of your glory has shone upon the eyes of our mind, so that, as we recognize in him God made visible, we may be caught up through him in love of things invisible.”
Living God, thank you for your goodness. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner! Stay with me, Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FEAST OF SAINT STEPHEN, FIRST MARTYRJesus said to his disciples: “When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.”
In today’s reading from Matthew, Jesus speaks about the persecution that results from sharing the Gospel. “Brother will hand over brother to death,” he says, “and the child his father.” The kind of persecution that Jesus speaks of has taken place throughout all of Church history but today focuses on the most extreme form of persecution: martyrdom. Saint Stephen debated with members of a synagogue who could not withstand his wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke. When Saint Stephen said he could see the heavens opened and the Son of Man, Jesus, standing at the right hand of God the Father, they became enraged and stoned him to death. As they stoned him, Stephen cried out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Although real martyrdom and persecution continues throughout the world, I myself will not likely face that. So the question becomes, how will I face the little persecutions of the day and allow the Spirit of the Father to speak through me?
Help me understand, God, that great things are at stake even in seemingly trivial matters. Give me the wisdom to see the events of the day as they are and to be able to witness to the Gospel by speaking your truth. As Jesus said it would be to his disciples, so it was with Saint Stephen. The Spirit of the Father spoke through him. Sometimes it is so hard to find time to hear your word even as I struggle intently to take it in. Because of this, I ask you for the gift of awareness of your presence and knowledge of your will.
Thank you, Lord, for sending Jesus your Son, for every good you give me. The day after Christmas, it feels strange to celebrate the feast of Saint Stephen, the first martyr. As in the Our Father’s “kingdom come,” Jesus’ words are comforting: “Do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say.” Holy Spirit, let me be at peace with the day and receive the Father’s guidance. It is not mine to worry about the rest.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD
Mass during the Day: A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.
Today a light shines in the darkness that had never existed before. The true light, Jesus Christ, who enlightens everyone, has come into the world as the Christ child. Today, on the birth of Jesus, we proclaim that this day God took on flesh to come among the people he created to save us from sin and death. Along with the Responsorial Psalm, we sing: “Announce his salvation, day after day. Tell his glory among the nations; among all peoples, his wondrous deeds. Today is born our Savior, Christ the Lord.”
God, help me understand the profound joy of this moment in human history. Help me realize that although Jesus came once into the world, he continues to be born every time your beloved children return to you with a whole heart and seek you, Love Itself, for the salvation of humanity. God, help me be attentive today where I place my sense of wonder—astonishment!—at the birth of your Son, Emmanuel.
Through your grace, Lord, stay with me today as I dwell on the Nativity. Let me remember to take the Christ child in my arms and adore him, the Savior of the World. Pour forth your grace, Lord, to draw me ever closer to you as I ponder your majesty and mystery; hold me in your mercy.
From the Gospel acclamation: A holy day has dawned upon us. Come, you nations, and adore the Lord. For today a great light has come upon the earth.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SATURDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENTMass in the Morning: A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke
Zechariah his father, filled with the Holy Spirit, prophesied, saying: “You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, to give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins. In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Continuing where yesterday’s Gospel reading left off, Zechariah prophesies John’s role in preparing the way for the Lord. Repentance is key in giving knowledge to people of the forgiveness of their sins. Zechariah recognizes that through God’s mercy in sending his Son, God will “break upon” sin, darkness, and death and guide us toward him into the way of peace. This is the same God who speaks to David through the prophet Nathan: “It was I who took you from the pasture and from the care of the flock to be commander of my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you went, and I have destroyed all your enemies before you.” God himself breaks through to rescue us from whatever hinders the path to him so that, as Zechariah prophesies, we are “free to worship him without fear . . . all the days of our life.”
Incredible as it may seem, God, you enter human history through Emmanuel to ransom us from sin and death. One to one, person to person, you call each of us by name to worship you. Help me understand what the limits of my knowledge and contemporary skepticism obscure. I want to put that aside and ponder the words of the Gloria: “For you alone are the Holy One, You alone are the Lord, You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father.” For the sake of your glory, Lord, help my unbelief.
From the time the angel Gabriel announced to Zechariah that he would have a son, Zechariah’s disbelief left him mute. Here today, filled with the Holy Spirit, he prophesies that his son will prepare the way of the Lord. Holy Spirit, fill me today with whatever leads me to God’s tender compassion that Zechariah speaks of; be the dawn from on high to break upon me with your light.
From the Gospel acclamation: O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice: come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FRIDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENTWhen they came on the eighth day to circumcise the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother said in reply, “No. He will be called John.” But they answered her, “There is no one among your relatives who has this name.” So they made signs, asking his father what he wished him to be called. He asked for a tablet and wrote, “John is his name,” and all were amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God.
After the angel Gabriel visited Zechariah and told him the child’s name will be John, Zechariah was speechless because, as Gabriel said, “because you did not believe my words.” In today’s Gospel, Zechariah is present at John’s circumcision. Elizabeth says that the child will be named John, at the moment Zechariah writes “John is his name” on a tablet, his tongue was freed and he began to speak, blessing God. All who heard these things were amazed and wondered what this might mean. They said of John, “What, then, will this child be? For surely the hand of the Lord was with him.” How do I remain open to seeing God’s work in the ordinary moments of the day?
God, help me understand today’s Gospel reading. Was Zechariah made speechless so that he could spend more time pondering your work in his life? I want to see your work in my life but am often carried through each day with the blinders of routine tasks and various to-do lists that must be completed. Grant me the grace to believe in your words and see your hand present in every moment of the day.
Lord, make clear to me today my path. Let me know that although I am separate in body from others I meet, you alone are with me at all times—interiorly and with those I meet. Free me from anything that would separate me from you. Stay with me!
From the O Antiphon for today: O Emmanuel, our King and Giver of Law: come to save us, Lord our God!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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THURSDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENTMary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his Name. He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.”
Every line of the Magnificat spoken by Mary is a reflection on God’s splendor and divine identity. Mary proclaims the Lord’s greatness and rejoices in his salvation. As in the Our Father, “holy is his Name.” What divinely inspired insight Mary expresses in saying, “He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.” How is it possible that Mary could proclaim this without God’s wisdom literally dwelling within her? Mary says, “He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly.” How can I be attentive to these words? Today, particularly, how do I recognize God as ruler and judge over all the earth and the one who remembers the promise of mercy he made to Abraham and his children forever?
God, strengthen in me the voice that wants to proclaim your greatness and rejoice in Jesus your Son, Our Savior. Come to my help to bring strength of arm and mercy to be given. I know my way of delivering either of those falls quickly into impotence unless they come by way of your grace.
Lord, be present with me today and keep me upright to turn to you and rejoice. Guide me today and look upon me with your mercy. Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!
From the O Antiphon for today: O King of all nations and keystone of the Church: come and save man, whom you formed from the dust!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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WEDNESDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENTWhen Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
Today’s Gospel reading from Luke describes the Visitation, Mary’s journey to visit her cousin Elizabeth. Luke says that on hearing Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth cried out in a loud voice and was filled with the Holy Spirit. “How does this happen to me,” she says, “that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” Elizabeth’s response echoes that of the second reading: “Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! Sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!” The joy of God’s presence is palpable, as Elizabeth feels John leaping in her womb. Where is that right response in me today and as the Nativity approaches?
God, bring to my soul that same Visitation that Elizabeth experienced. I know you are present, and I want to know how to disperse the shadows with your Divine light. In Song of Songs, your presence thaws the wintertime of the heart and brings warmth and ecstatic joy upon your springing steps: “For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land.” Look kindly on me, Lord, and grant me the grace to receive you with joy. What is that stirring that Elizabeth felt, even as she faced the day’s ordinary routines and anxieties. Teach me that love!
Jesus, let me make a place for you today as Mary did, the one who first knew that Emmanuel, the Messiah, had at last come. But, Lord, because I will fall short of that, guide my actions today; show me, through Jesus Christ your Son, the way to go.
From the O Antiphon for today: O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice: come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent
But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.”
Today’s Gospel reading from Luke follows yesterday’s reading and tells very similar stories. While Zechariah questioned Gabriel and is made speechless until John’s birth, Mary says, “May it be done to me according to your word.” It is not as if Zechariah was punished for what Gabriel called his lack of belief in the message sent from God; it seems instead that God quieted Zechariah for a time and immersed him in the school of interior life to prepare for the birth of John. Mary simply gave her consent, her fiat, saying, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.” How often in my life, even now during Advent, do I stay behind bars that keep me inside?
When you come to free me, Lord, I cling to bars that confine me as a self-proclaimed master of my own destiny. How do I learn to let go of my own personal glory? Let me learn to take to heart the words of the psalmist: “Let the Lord enter; he is the king of glory.” Help me understand, Lord, that what seems up is down and what is down, up. As Jesus says, “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Mary said yes; let me learn to do the same.
For the times when I don’t realize I’m saying no to you, Lord, or for the times when I’m afraid to say yes, stay with me. For the times when it’s hard to let you enter, grant me the grace to find a place for you. Power of the Most High, overshadow me today.
From the O Antiphon for today: O Key of David, opening the gates of God’s eternal Kingdom: come and free the prisoners of darkness!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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MONDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENT“I am Gabriel, who stand before God. I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you this good news. But now you will be speechless and unable to talk until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”
In today’s Gospel reading from Luke, the angel Gabriel appears before Zechariah to announce that John the Baptist will be born to Elizabeth although she is advanced in years. Zechariah’s prayer, Gabriel says, has been heard. Zechariah questions Gabriel by saying, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.” Whether there was something in Zechariah’s tone that suggested disbelief, Luke doesn’t say. What is clear is that Gabriel saw that Zechariah did not believe him and because of this he was unable to talk until the birth of John. Luke tells us in a later passage how Zechariah came to speak: “Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God.” What did Zechariah learn from God while he was mute? How did God speak to him in his speechlessness so that he would open his mouth, blessing God?
God, I believe in you yet fail to believe. My belief is not perfect but a work in progress, always coming into being in an imperfect way. Thank you for the blessing of my faith and for the sacraments, where you work with me where I am in perfecting my faith. I want to know the way to greater certainty of your work in the world and your work in me. Lord, you speak and from your mouth come perfect being and love. Help me today to understand how to quiet my voice—my spoken words and inner voice—so that I come interiorly to know you and bless you.
Lord, be my strength today. Quiet my soul today and these few days leading up to the birth of Jesus your Son. “For you are my hope, O LORD,” today’s Psalm says, “my trust, O God, from my youth. On you I depend from birth; from my mother’s womb you are my strength.” Be with me today as you were at my birth and always have been. Strengthen me today to believe you and trust you.
From the O Antiphon for today: O Root of Jesse’s stem, sign of God’s love for all his people: come to save us without delay!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT“She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means “God is with us.”
In today’s Gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Matthew echoes the words from the first reading of Isaiah, “the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel,” to proclaim that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of David, and, as Paul says in the second reading, “the one descended from David according to the flesh.” As the Lord says in Isaiah, “ask for a sign from the LORD, your God,” so he answers through the birth of Jesus through the Virgin Mary. God is with us!
God, you connect the pieces of salvation history—person by person—through the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus your Son. There is so much to take in; just as you are present in the cosmos and the grand scale, you are also present in the individual lives of your beloved children. When you speak to Ahaz and you tell him to ask for a sign, you say, “let it be deep as the netherworld, or high as the sky!” Lord, the scope of my imagination can’t begin to fathom the depths and heights of the mysteries you spoke from the beginning of time and continue to speak into existence. Grant me the grace to marvel at the wonders of the universe you made while trusting that you, Emmanuel, care for me in every way as one you love and call by name.
Lord, thank you for the gift of your presence. Through the appearance of an angel, Joseph accepted and trusted your will for Jesus and Mary. Let me trust that through your Son that the same intimate guidance is active in my life and in the world. With the “O Antiphons” of Advent for today, I pray: “O Leader of the House of Israel, giver of the Law to Moses on Sinai: come to rescue us with your mighty power!”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SATURDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENTEliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan, the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.
In today’s Gospel reading, Matthew relates the genealogy of Jesus. To read it is to be invited into Jesus’ family history. Many of the names are unfamiliar. Others, such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Solomon call to mind key figures in the Davidic lineage. Still others bring to mind that not all people in that family line are models of holiness. It is this human family that Jesus enters into when he took on flesh to live among the people he created in his image. In my own family genealogy, who are the models I look to for growing in my faith? My parents and grandparents come to mind; beyond that, my lineage is swallowed up in all of history, and I flounder to identify who I am and where I came from.
God, you sent your Son to us within a long lineage—part of your plan from the beginning of time—to bring us out of captivity and into everlasting life in your presence. Help me understand, Lord, that just as you had a plan for your Son and for all of history, you also have a plan for me, to draw me ever closer to you.
Be with me today, God. I know you are present, but I am not always mindful. In the people I encounter today, especially my family, and in the opportunities you present to me today, through your grace let me know you are near.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FRIDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENTJesus said to the Jews: “The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.”
In today’s Gospel reading from John, Jesus expresses an essential truth of his character. What he says the Father sent him to do he does. “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony cannot be verified,” Jesus says. “But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true.” Jesus speaks the truth because he accomplishes the will of his Father, who is truth. How do I respond to the Father’s call to live in truth by doing his will?
Thank you, Lord, for the gift of your Son. You bless us with Him in every way. As the psalmist says, “God, our God, has blessed us. May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him!” Give me the grace to trust your testimony and your every word. I want to understand your meaning by saying, “But I have testimony greater than John’s.” As Saint John Paul II said of John the Baptist: “[He] is above all a model of faith. Following the example of the great Prophet Elijah, in order to listen more attentively to the word of the one Lord of his life, he leaves everything and withdraws to the desert, from which he would issue the resounding call to prepare the way of the Lord.” Through your life, death, and resurrection, Lord, John first prepared the way for us.
Thank you, Lord, for preparing my heart this Advent to receive Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Stay with me today.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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THURSDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENTJesus said to the crowds about John the Baptist, “Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom Scripture says: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, he will prepare your way before you.
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus has just answered the question the disciples of John the Baptist has asked him: “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” Jesus makes clear his relationship to those listening by saying of John that he was “more than a prophet,” that he is the messenger that prepares a way for the Lord. The Pharisees and scholars of the law, he says, who were not baptized by John rejected God’s plan for themselves. How is it, God, that I routinely go to great lengths to see and do what is trivial but struggle to bring you into the present moment each day?
God, help me understand the restlessness that the crowds felt is little different from the restlessness I feel each day, whether at work or at home. It takes very little to unsettle me when comfortable habits are disrupted. If I had less to cling to, I’d have less to let go of. What is it about John the Baptist that prepares the way? He lived in the desert, he ate locusts and wild honey, and he lived apart from the comforts of civilization. He lived a life of detachment. Lord, let me know you are with me today. I hear in this the words of Saint Paul: “You must increase; I must decrease.”
Quiet my soul, Lord. See me in the great and small distress of the day. From the first reading, let me keep within my soul this consolation: “But with enduring love I take pity on you, says the Lord, your redeemer.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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MEMORIAL OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS, PRIEST AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCHWhen the men came to the Lord, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’” At that time Jesus cured many of their diseases, sufferings, and evil spirits; he also granted sight to many who were blind.
In today’s Gospel from Luke, Jesus responds to this question from the disciples of John in a matter-of-fact way: “the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.” In the first reading from Isaiah, God who sent his Son to be the Incarnate Word, proclaims “I am the LORD, there is no other; I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe; I, the LORD, do all these things.” In this is the Lordship of Christ—his majesty as the one who is to come; there is no other. As the psalmist says, “ I will hear what God proclaims; the LORD–for he proclaims peace to his people. Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our land.” What is there in this day that would obstruct me from the depth and breadth of joy in these words? “I am the LORD, there is no other.”
Be with me today, Lord, to aid me in taking all of this in. I am subject to many diversions the world offers, and I easily stray from hearing your word and living by it. Grant me the grace to fear being far from you; as the words of today’s Psalm proclaim, “Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him.”
Father in heaven, you form light and make well-being. Blessed are you, Lord; there is no other. Lord, as you say to the disciples of John the Baptist, say to me in my heart: “the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them. And blessed is the one who takes no offense at me.” Saint John of the Cross, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and MartyrWhen John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the chief priests and elders the parable of the two sons. The father said to the first: “Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.” He said, “I will not.” Afterward, he changed his mind and went. He gave the second son the same order. He said, “Yes, sir,” but did not go. Jesus then asks them, “Which of the two did his father’s will?” They answered, “The first.” Which of these sons am I most like? How often do I enthusiastically respond to God’s call but then falter?
God, help me understand the Gospel reading. Tax collectors and prostitutes, Jesus says, are entering the Kingdom of God before the ones—myself included—who first say yes and then don’t go. Is it that because of their sins, they no they have greater need for your grace and mercy? Grant me the grace, Lord, to hear and respond to you, as in the words of the first reading: “But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, Who shall take refuge in the name of the LORD: the remnant of Israel.”
I feel the constraints of time today and a stubborn drive to accomplish the work that lies ahead in my own way. Lord, through your presence, let me hear you and go where you want me to go. Show me how to do it your way. You are my father, and you ask me to go out and work in the vineyard today, in the things I do and with the people I meet. Let me humbly accept the work you give me and find peace in following your will.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Feast of Our Lady of GuadalupeThe angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.
Today’s Gospel reading from Luke tells the story of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In it, we see Mary betrothed to Joseph, who is of the house of David. The angel Gabriel was sent. Although the passage doesn’t say, who but God would have sent Gabriel to Mary? Therefore, everything the angel told Mary was “God sent.” When Mary was troubled at his appearance, he said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.” In a similar way, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego near Mexico City who was traveling outside a town on his way to a catechism class and Mass. Mary told him in his native Nahuatl language, “For I am your merciful Mother, to you and to all mankind who love me and trust in me and invoke my help.” Our Lady asked Juan to build a shrine in that same spot. When Juan visited the Archbishop to tell him, he didn’t believe him. So when Our Lady appeared to Juan again, she asked him to pick some flowers. It was winter. Nonetheless, Juan found many flowers of a type he had never seen. The Virgin placed them in Juan’s tilma. When Juan returned to the Archbishop, he presented the tilma. The flowers, Castilian flowers not found in Mexico, fell out. The tilma had been imprinted with a miraculous image of the Virgin. From that moment, within the span of seven years, eight million natives converted to Christianity.
God, help me understand through today’s liturgy of the word and through the actions of Our Lady of Guadalupe that you care for your people, for the health of body and soul, and that you want us to know peace in your presence. Mary said to Juan Diego concerning his dying uncle: “Do not let anything afflict you and be not afraid of illness or pain.” I want to have that kind of trust as I face the trials of the day.
Lord, I know you are near. When I find myself becoming afraid of the tasks of this day, let me remember the words of the angel Gabriel and Our Lady of Guadalupe: “Do not be afraid.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SUNDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENTJesus said to them in reply, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the good news proclaimed to them. And blessed is the one who takes no offense at me.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus responds to the disciples of John the Baptist who ask him if he is the one to come, the Messiah. In Jesus’ response, there is what is heralded in each of the other readings and the Responsorial Psalm. Of the coming of God, Isaiah says, “Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the mute will sing.” Similarly, the psalmists says, “The LORD gives sight to the blind; the LORD raises up those who were bowed down.” And in the second reading from James, he encourages his brothers and sisters to wait patiently as a farmer waits for “the precious fruit of the earth” because “the coming of the Lord is at hand.” What does that mean to me that God’s kingdom is amid the ordinariness of each day and certainly amid the extraordinary joyful expectation of this day, Gaudete Sunday?
God, help me take this in and understand it. The kingdom of heaven is coming, and the kingdom of heaven is here now. As Jesus tells the crowds: “among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” In Jesus’ coming, I have what no one before him had. Although no one was greater than the forerunner John, the least in the kingdom, in Jesus’ coming, is greater than John. Even today, Lord, you feed the least in your kingdom with the Eucharist and the sacraments, with us until you come again in glory. Be here with me today during the Mass, in receiving the Eucharist, and present in me through the Holy Spirit.
God of all, you heal us in mind, body, and spirit through the saving power of your Son. Help me see and hear you today so that I can do your will to give you glory.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SATURDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT“Elijah will indeed come and restore all things,” Jesus said, “but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased. So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus speaks to his disciples as they come down from the mountain after the Transfiguration. By referring to John as Elijah who had come and faced rejection and suffering, Jesus foreshadows his own rejection to come: “So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.” How do I recognize the coming of the Son of Man today and every day of this Advent?
Help me understand, Lord, the significance of this question of the disciples who had just witnessed Jesus’ Transfiguration. Elijah will come, and Elijah has already come. In the same, way Jesus has come and will come again. God, give me the grace to understand that you exist outside of time. You are the alpha and the omega—always and forever present in love and mercy.
In the Responsorial Psalm, the refrain is “Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.” The disciples saw God made Man face to face in the Transfiguration. Let me turn back to you time after time in the fog and frenzy of the day’s activities. Stay beside me, Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SATURDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT“Elijah will indeed come and restore all things,” Jesus said, “but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased. So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus speaks to his disciples as they come down from the mountain after the Transfiguration. By referring to John as Elijah who had come and faced rejection and suffering, Jesus foreshadows his own rejection to come: “So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.” How do I recognize the coming of the Son of Man today and every day of this Advent?
Help me understand, Lord, the significance of this question of the disciples who had just witnessed Jesus’ Transfiguration. Elijah will come, and Elijah has already come. In the same, way Jesus has come and will come again. God, give me the grace to understand that you exist outside of time. You are the alpha and the omega—always and forever present in love and mercy.
In the Responsorial Psalm, the refrain is “Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.” The disciples saw God made Man face to face in the Transfiguration. Let me turn back to you time after time in the fog and frenzy of the day’s activities. Stay beside me, Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FRIDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENTJesus said to the crowds: “To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’”
Today’s Gospel passage from Matthew shows Jesus responding to those who were critical of John and those who were critical of him. John came neither eating nor drinking, and the Son of Man came eating and drinking. In either case, their ministry is criticized. John is seen as possessed; Jesus, as a glutton and a drunkard. Either criticism obfuscates the main thing, the goal, which the first reading from Isaiah brings to light: “I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go.” Those who follow the Lord, says the psalmist, have the light of life and mediate on his law day and night. In my own mind, how can I switch off the critical response that debilitates my response to God? What do I need to do to bring the Lord more present into my life day and night, today and tomorrow?
God, help me understand your Son’s words. I want to be childlike in hanging on your every word; keep my spirit from playing children’s games, imposing childish expectations on how you should work in my life and in the world. Jesus, you say, “But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” I want to be like the man in the Psalms who follows you and has your light: “He is like a tree planted near running water, That yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers.”
Lord, I know you are near. You are not confined by human perception and categories; you are above all. Give me the grace today to put away my critical mind and trust in what you have to teach me. You say to me: “I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go.” I ask you to lead me.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FRIDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENTJesus said to the crowds: “To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’”
Today’s Gospel passage from Matthew shows Jesus responding to those who were critical of John and those who were critical of him. John came neither eating nor drinking, and the Son of Man came eating and drinking. In either case, their ministry is criticized. John is seen as possessed; Jesus, as a glutton and a drunkard. Either criticism obfuscates the main thing, the goal, which the first reading from Isaiah brings to light: “I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go.” Those who follow the Lord, says the psalmist, have the light of life and mediate on his law day and night. In my own mind, how can I switch off the critical response that debilitates my response to God? What do I need to do to bring the Lord more present into my life day and night, today and tomorrow?
God, help me understand your Son’s words. I want to be childlike in hanging on your every word; keep my spirit from playing children’s games, imposing childish expectations on how you should work in my life and in the world. Jesus, you say, “But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” I want to be like the man in the Psalms who follows you and has your light: “He is like a tree planted near running water, That yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers.”
Lord, I know you are near. You are not confined by human perception and categories; you are above all. Give me the grace today to put away my critical mind and trust in what you have to teach me. You say to me: “I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go.” I ask you to lead me.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARYThe angel Gabriel said to Mary: “Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”
On today’s Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Gospel according to Luke describes a profound moment in human history, where Mary says yes to God. It is the quietest of meetings, Gabriel and Mary face to face. Is it possible that Gabriel knew of Mary’s immaculate conception, observing her life from the time she was born? Born without original sin, at the Annunciation, Mary was able to say yes wholeheartedly and without the same brokenness of spirit that we all confront because of sin. Mary’s yes undid that other conversation between an angel and a woman, the serpent and Eve, that took place in the Garden of Eden. Mary’s question—“How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?”—shows that for her it was not a question of whether God could make the incarnation happen but how it would happen. What would it take for me to give the same wholehearted response to God as Mary does?
Lord, as Gabriel tells Mary that Jesus will rule over the house of Jacob forever and that of his Kingdom there will be no end and that nothing is impossible for you, wouldn’t it have been understandable for Mary to question this? Wouldn’t any one of us say, “Wait; stop right there. I will bear a son whose kingdom will never end? I need a minute.” Instead, Mary simply says, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Almighty God, grant me the grace of complete confidence in your power and glory.
Thank you, God, for the Blessed Virgin Mary’s yes. Her fiat—“May it be done to me according to your word.”— is the royal road to the Incarnate Word, Jesus your Son. Lord, let me know and do your will for the praise of your glory. Blessed Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARYThe angel Gabriel said to Mary: “Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”
On today’s Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Gospel according to Luke describes a profound moment in human history, where Mary says yes to God. It is the quietest of meetings, Gabriel and Mary face to face. Is it possible that Gabriel knew of Mary’s immaculate conception, observing her life from the time she was born? Born without original sin, at the Annunciation, Mary was able to say yes wholeheartedly and without the same brokenness of spirit that we all confront because of sin. Mary’s yes undid that other conversation between an angel and a woman, the serpent and Eve, that took place in the Garden of Eden. Mary’s question—“How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?”—shows that for her it was not a question of whether God could make the incarnation happen but how it would happen. What would it take for me to give the same wholehearted response to God as Mary does?
Lord, as Gabriel tells Mary that Jesus will rule over the house of Jacob forever and that of his Kingdom there will be no end and that nothing is impossible for you, wouldn’t it have been understandable for Mary to question this? Wouldn’t any one of us say, “Wait; stop right there. I will bear a son whose kingdom will never end? I need a minute.” Instead, Mary simply says, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Almighty God, grant me the grace of complete confidence in your power and glory.
Thank you, God, for the Blessed Virgin Mary’s yes. Her fiat—“May it be done to me according to your word.”— is the royal road to the Incarnate Word, Jesus your Son. Lord, let me know and do your will for the praise of your glory. Blessed Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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MEMORIAL OF SAINT AMBROSE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCHJesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus invites those who hear him to come to him for rest, to take his yoke upon them and learn from him. Jesus doesn’t say he will remove the burden. What, then, does he mean by asking us to take his yoke upon him? Traditionally, a yoke is a heavy beam placed between animals such as oxen to allow them to pull a load together. Jesus offers rest by sharing his yoke with us, to lighten the load, to learn from him to be meek and humble of heart. The yoke Jesus offers is easy; in it, there is no escape from daily burdens but room to come to know who it is that walks beside us. On the feast of Saint Ambrose, a Doctor of the Church, let me remember to be attentive to the word of God in the work I do today and bring Christ into the most burdensome moments. Saint Ambrose, pray for us!
My instinct is to try to escape the yoke of daily routines bring and to lay my burdens down and rest. God, help guide me with the wisdom to know that these inescapable burdens are an opportunity to learn that you are beside me and to rest in the peace of your presence. Give me the grace today to strive in that hope with the yoke you offer me.
Lord, thank you for the gift of the burdens of this day that you give me to draw me closer to you, to have me work beside you. Stay with me! In the words of Saint Ambrose, “Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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MEMORIAL OF SAINT AMBROSE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCHJesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus invites those who hear him to come to him for rest, to take his yoke upon them and learn from him. Jesus doesn’t say he will remove the burden. What, then, does he mean by asking us to take his yoke upon him? Traditionally, a yoke is a heavy beam placed between animals such as oxen to allow them to pull a load together. Jesus offers rest by sharing his yoke with us, to lighten the load, to learn from him to be meek and humble of heart. The yoke Jesus offers is easy; in it, there is no escape from daily burdens but room to come to know who it is that walks beside us. On the feast of Saint Ambrose, a Doctor of the Church, let me remember to be attentive to the word of God in the work I do today and bring Christ into the most burdensome moments. Saint Ambrose, pray for us!
My instinct is to try to escape the yoke of daily routines bring and to lay my burdens down and rest. God, help guide me with the wisdom to know that these inescapable burdens are an opportunity to learn that you are beside me and to rest in the peace of your presence. Give me the grace today to strive in that hope with the yoke you offer me.
Lord, thank you for the gift of the burdens of this day that you give me to draw me closer to you, to have me work beside you. Stay with me! In the words of Saint Ambrose, “Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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TUESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENTJesus said to his disciples, “In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus tells his disciples the parable of the lost sheep. He asks their opinion of whether a shepherd would leave his ninety-nine sheep to go in search of the one gone astray. And if he finds it, Jesus says, “he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.” He says this to teach the disciples about the extraordinary love of the Father for his beloved children. Rather than pity the ones who are lost, I have to think about the times that I have gone astray and waited for God to come in power to save me. As the Gospel acclamation says: “The day of the Lord is near; Behold, he comes to save us.” As we celebrate the feast of Saint Nicholas today, I’m reminded of his generosity through his life of service to the needy, the sick, and the suffering. Is Santa real, I have to ask myself? As long as we celebrate the life of Saint Nicholas among the communion of saints, yes, Santa is real.
Help me understand, Lord, the words of the Our Father in daily life: “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.” Life passes quickly, and the strength and resolve of youth is transitory. Isaiah beautiful words in the first reading calls this to mind: “All flesh is grass, and all their glory like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it. So then, the people is the grass. Though the grass withers and the flower wilts, the word of our God stands forever.” Keep me in your care, God, and close to your word—to the word made flesh.
Jesus, Good Shepherd, help me stay close to you today. I know I will go astray today. As Saint Paul says, “For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.” Through your grace, keep me from the temptation that leads to sin and let me instead see and do your will. And when I fail, come find me and bring me back to you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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TUESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT
Jesus said to his disciples, “In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus tells his disciples the parable of the lost sheep. He asks their opinion of whether a shepherd would leave his ninety-nine sheep to go in search of the one gone astray. And if he finds it, Jesus says, “he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.” He says this to teach the disciples about the extraordinary love of the Father for his beloved children. Rather than pity the ones who are lost, I have to think about the times that I have gone astray and waited for God to come in power to save me. As the Gospel acclamation says: “The day of the Lord is near; Behold, he comes to save us.” As we celebrate the feast of Saint Nicholas today, I’m reminded of his generosity through his life of service to the needy, the sick, and the suffering. Is Santa real, I have to ask myself? As long as we celebrate the life of Saint Nicholas among the communion of saints, yes, Santa is real.
Help me understand, Lord, the words of the Our Father in daily life: “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.” Life passes quickly, and the strength and resolve of youth is transitory. Isaiah beautiful words in the first reading calls this to mind: “All flesh is grass, and all their glory like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it. So then, the people is the grass. Though the grass withers and the flower wilts, the word of our God stands forever.” Keep me in your care, God, and close to your word—to the word made flesh.
Jesus, Good Shepherd, help me stay close to you today. I know I will go astray today. As Saint Paul says, “For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.” Through your grace, keep me from the temptation that leads to sin and let me instead see and do your will. And when I fail, come find me and bring me back to you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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MONDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKEBut that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he said to the one who was paralyzed, “I say to you, rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.” He stood up immediately before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God. Then astonishment seized them all and they glorified God, and, struck with awe, they said, “We have seen incredible things today.”
In today’s reading, as Jesus is teaching the Pharisees and scribes, the friends of a man who was paralyzed lowered him through the roof because they couldn’t make their way through the crowd. As soon as Jesus sees the man, he says to him: “As for you, your sins are forgiven.” The scribes and Pharisees see this as blasphemy because only God can forgive sins. But Jesus says to them: “What are you thinking in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?” And immediately the man stood up and walked. As the Son of God, Jesus speaks reality into existence. He said to the man “Rise and walk,” and he rose and walked. The same goes for sins. As he speaks, so it is done.
God, help me understand the power and authority you gave to your Son to release me from sin. As the Gospel Acclamation says, “Behold the king will come, the Lord of the earth, and he himself will lift the yoke of our captivity.” Sin and death bind and enslave, but through your Son they no longer have the last word because he destroyed death and canceled sin, restoring us to communion with you. And just as the crowd recognizes in the last words of today’s Gospel, I can also take in and respond to with joy: “We have seen incredible things today.”
Lord, give me the grace to carry that joy with me throughout the day. As Jesus the Divine Physician spoke healing and forgiveness into reality out of great love and mercy, I can choose to recognize that as the events of today unfold. As Padre Pio prayed in his prayer after Holy Communion: “Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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MONDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKEBut that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he said to the one who was paralyzed, “I say to you, rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.” He stood up immediately before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God. Then astonishment seized them all and they glorified God, and, struck with awe, they said, “We have seen incredible things today.”
In today’s reading, as Jesus is teaching the Pharisees and scribes, the friends of a man who was paralyzed lowered him through the roof because they couldn’t make their way through the crowd. As soon as Jesus sees the man, he says to him: “As for you, your sins are forgiven.” The scribes and Pharisees see this as blasphemy because only God can forgive sins. But Jesus says to them: “What are you thinking in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?” And immediately the man stood up and walked. As the Son of God, Jesus speaks reality into existence. He said to the man “Rise and walk,” and he rose and walked. The same goes for sins. As he speaks, so it is done.
God, help me understand the power and authority you gave to your Son to release me from sin. As the Gospel Acclamation says, “Behold the king will come, the Lord of the earth, and he himself will lift the yoke of our captivity.” Sin and death bind and enslave, but through your Son they no longer have the last word because he destroyed death and canceled sin, restoring us to communion with you. And just as the crowd recognizes in the last words of today’s Gospel, I can also take in and respond to with joy: “We have seen incredible things today.”
Lord, give me the grace to carry that joy with me throughout the day. As Jesus the Divine Physician spoke healing and forgiveness into reality out of great love and mercy, I can choose to recognize that as the events of today unfold. As Padre Pio prayed in his prayer after Holy Communion: “Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SUNDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT
A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWWhen he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, “‘We have Abraham as our father.’”
In today’s Gospel reading, John the Baptist was preaching the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven, the coming of Christ. Matthew says that people from the whole region around the Jordan were coming to John to be baptized. John, known as the forerunner of Christ, chastises the Pharisees and Sadducees to repentance, to make a complete turnaround: “For I tell you,” John says to them, “God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.” Some commentaries on this passage suggest that the stones and dust of the earth are the dust from which God created man and woman. Their reliance on Abraham as their father, then, is not to replace the coming of the Son of God. What are the tenuous beliefs I hold onto that keep me from an authentic relationship with God?
Help me see clearly, Lord, my own overreliance in what is not you—adherence to beliefs that fail to lead to you. I want to understand that the Pharisees and Sadducees are not so remote in world history that they are irrelevant. Help me learn from them that pride in my own particular path to holiness is a dead end, is sin, the chaff that you separate from the wheat. As John says of you, Lord: “Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” Guide me in keeping with Christ so that with one voice with one another I may glorify you.
Jesus, as I receive you in the Eucharist today, let me give glory to your name. Be with me so that I can keep today holy. As the first reading beautifully describes the Kingdom of Heaven, fill me with the gift of your presence: “There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SUNDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT
A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWWhen he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, “‘We have Abraham as our father.’”
In today’s Gospel reading, John the Baptist was preaching the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven, the coming of Christ. Matthew says that people from the whole region around the Jordan were coming to John to be baptized. John, known as the forerunner of Christ, chastises the Pharisees and Sadducees to repentance, to make a complete turnaround: “For I tell you,” John says to them, “God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.” Some commentaries on this passage suggest that the stones and dust of the earth are the dust from which God created man and woman. Their reliance on Abraham as their father, then, is not to replace the coming of the Son of God. What are the tenuous beliefs I hold onto that keep me from an authentic relationship with God?
Help me see clearly, Lord, my own overreliance in what is not you—adherence to beliefs that fail to lead to you. I want to understand that the Pharisees and Sadducees are not so remote in world history that they are irrelevant. Help me learn from them that pride in my own particular path to holiness is a dead end, is sin, the chaff that you separate from the wheat. As John says of you, Lord: “Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” Guide me in keeping with Christ so that with one voice with one another I may glorify you.
Jesus, as I receive you in the Eucharist today, let me give glory to your name. Be with me so that I can keep today holy. As the first reading beautifully describes the Kingdom of Heaven, fill me with the gift of your presence: “There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWJesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus, “Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”
In the Gospel for today, we celebrate the memorial of Saint Francis Xavier. On this last day of the first week of Advent, Matthew describes Jesus’ entry into towns and villages as he proclaimed the Kingdom of heaven and cured every disease and illness. “At the sight of the crowds,” Matthew tells us, “his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.” Who is this whose heart is moved with pity? It is the same God in the Responsorial Psalm who tells the number of the stars and calls each of us by name. It is the same God in the first reading who guides us from behind and whose voice we hear say: “‘This is the way; walk in it,’ when you would turn to the right or to the left.” Then, Jesus asks of me what he asks of the Twelve: cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and drive out demons.
God, help me understand you are not some ideology or philosophy to comprehend and apply to daily life. You are the creator of the universe; you are Christ the Son; you are the Holy Spirit. And you are asking me, whose name you know, to proclaim that the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. How is it possible that I am able to do all you ask of me, especially the impossible? When I think of curing the sick and driving out demons, I bring it down to size. Be loving, help give healing to brokenness, welcome the ones who feel alienated, and go to Confession and invite others. But there is more to that. You really did give Peter and the Twelve the authority to raise the dead and cure the sick. Let me not underestimate the power you entrust me with that comes through faith in you. As that other great Francis, Saint Francis of Assisi, said: “First do what is necessary. Then do what is possible. And before you know it you are doing the impossible.”
Lord, let me quietly take in the love you have for me. The authority you first gave to the Twelve by your authority as Lord of all you also give to me. It’s humbling to hold in my being that you love me as a laborer sent out to proclaim the coming of the Kingdom of heaven. Stay with me today, stay behind me, guiding which way to go to accomplish your will.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWJesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus, “Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”
In the Gospel for today, we celebrate the memorial of Saint Francis Xavier. On this last day of the first week of Advent, Matthew describes Jesus’ entry into towns and villages as he proclaimed the Kingdom of heaven and cured every disease and illness. “At the sight of the crowds,” Matthew tells us, “his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.” Who is this whose heart is moved with pity? It is the same God in the Responsorial Psalm who tells the number of the stars and calls each of us by name. It is the same God in the first reading who guides us from behind and whose voice we hear say: “‘This is the way; walk in it,’ when you would turn to the right or to the left.” Then, Jesus asks of me what he asks of the Twelve: cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and drive out demons.
God, help me understand you are not some ideology or philosophy to comprehend and apply to daily life. You are the creator of the universe; you are Christ the Son; you are the Holy Spirit. And you are asking me, whose name you know, to proclaim that the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. How is it possible that I am able to do all you ask of me, especially the impossible? When I think of curing the sick and driving out demons, I bring it down to size. Be loving, help give healing to brokenness, welcome the ones who feel alienated, and go to Confession and invite others. But there is more to that. You really did give Peter and the Twelve the authority to raise the dead and cure the sick. Let me not underestimate the power you entrust me with that comes through faith in you. As that other great Francis, Saint Francis of Assisi, said: “First do what is necessary. Then do what is possible. And before you know it you are doing the impossible.”
Lord, let me quietly take in the love you have for me. The authority you first gave to the Twelve by your authority as Lord of all you also give to me. It’s humbling to hold in my being that you love me as a laborer sent out to proclaim the coming of the Kingdom of heaven. Stay with me today, stay behind me, guiding which way to go to accomplish your will.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FRIDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWWhen he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.”
The two blind men who approached Jesus first cried out to him and then followed him. The passage doesn’t say that the blind men asked Jesus anything. Jesus simply knows their needs: “Do you believe that I can do this?” Just as God spoke creation into existence, Jesus says “let it be done” and it is done. He tells the blind men that it is done according to their faith. Countless times every day, I make plans in my head as if I could speak them into fulfillment, as if by my own interior light I see ahead in the dark. How far am I willing to say of each plan “let it be done” according to God’s will?
God, let me stop and consider the power behind the words of your Son: “Let it be done.” In coming to Jesus, the blind men poured out their hearts to him, saying, “Son of David, have pity on us!” The extent of what I might accomplish today, Lord, can be summed up in two words: God willing. What can I hope to accomplish today without believing that you work with me and through me to do your will? Lord, touch my eyes today with your presence and give me the grace to remember to come to you in trust, and let me hear you say: “Let it be done for you according to your faith.”
Jesus, open my eyes of faith today to your presence in the Blessed Sacrament and in the Masses said throughout the world at every minute of the day. I know you delight in me and love me. Help me realize that when I fall short. Take pity on me when I fail to love you and all those I encounter today as I should. Advent is here, and you are coming. Open my eyes to that joyful expectation. I know you are near!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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FRIDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWWhen he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.”
The two blind men who approached Jesus first cried out to him and then followed him. The passage doesn’t say that the blind men asked Jesus anything. Jesus simply knows their needs: “Do you believe that I can do this?” Just as God spoke creation into existence, Jesus says “let it be done” and it is done. He tells the blind men that it is done according to their faith. Countless times every day, I make plans in my head as if I could speak them into fulfillment, as if by my own interior light I see ahead in the dark. How far am I willing to say of each plan “let it be done” according to God’s will?
God, let me stop and consider the power behind the words of your Son: “Let it be done.” In coming to Jesus, the blind men poured out their hearts to him, saying, “Son of David, have pity on us!” The extent of what I might accomplish today, Lord, can be summed up in two words: God willing. What can I hope to accomplish today without believing that you work with me and through me to do your will? Lord, touch my eyes today with your presence and give me the grace to remember to come to you in trust, and let me hear you say: “Let it be done for you according to your faith.”
Jesus, open my eyes of faith today to your presence in the Blessed Sacrament and in the Masses said throughout the world at every minute of the day. I know you delight in me and love me. Help me realize that when I fall short. Take pity on me when I fail to love you and all those I encounter today as I should. Advent is here, and you are coming. Open my eyes to that joyful expectation. I know you are near!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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THURSDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWJesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.”
The words of Jesus from today’s Gospel strike the ear with his repetition of “Lord” and the warning of utter ruin that follows from building on a foundation of anything other than doing the will of the Father. When I hear Jesus saying, “Lord, Lord,” I feel accused. Lord, shouldn’t I call out to you at all times? The Gospel acclamation says, “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call him while he is near.” Jesus issues a kind of challenge in his words by directing us to the will of the Father.
God, help me understand the will of the Father, as I hear Jesus inviting me to remain authentic in my relationship with him: “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.” Lord, you are, as Isaiah says, the eternal Rock. Thank you for the life, death, and resurrection of your Son, for his words that encourage me to lay down my own will and know and do yours instead.
Father in heaven, when I am restless and distracted today, quiet my soul. Teach me your will, and let me not be discouraged by failure to accomplish it but resolved all the more to trust in your mercy and grace. Let me have childlike hope in you, in your guidance. When I call out to you, let it be from a longing that only your love for me can fulfill. Prepare me through your gift of this day to enter your kingdom.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
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THURSDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT
A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWJesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.”
The words of Jesus from today’s Gospel strike the ear with his repetition of “Lord” and the warning of utter ruin that follows from building on a foundation of anything other than doing the will of the Father. When I hear Jesus saying, “Lord, Lord,” I feel accused. Lord, shouldn’t I call out to you at all times? The Gospel acclamation says, “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call him while he is near.” Jesus issues a kind of challenge in his words by directing us to the will of the Father.
God, help me understand the will of the Father, as I hear Jesus inviting me to remain authentic in my relationship with him: “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.” Lord, you are, as Isaiah says, the eternal Rock. Thank you for the life, death, and resurrection of your Son, for his words that encourage me to lay down my own will and know and do yours instead.
Father in heaven, when I am restless and distracted today, quiet my soul. Teach me your will, and let me not be discouraged by failure to accomplish it but resolved all the more to trust in your mercy and grace. Let me have childlike hope in you, in your guidance. When I call out to you, let it be from a longing that only your love for me can fulfill. Prepare me through your gift of this day to enter your kingdom.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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WEDNESDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWAs Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him. He walked along from there and saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat, with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left their boat and their father and followed him.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus invites two pairs of brothers to follow him. He first finds Peter and Andrew, in the midst of their daily work, casting their net into the sea. Next he sees James and John and calls them as they are mending their nets. Only God knows why Jesus chose these first apostles over others. What is clear is that he chose them from their very livelihood—at work in the world—inviting them to work anew with their nets to draw people from the world into the kingdom of God. It’s hard for me to imagine what God sees in me that makes me suited to witness to his truth. What does he see in me as he looks at me as he did Peter, Andrew, James, and John? Why is it that Jesus calls two at a time, brothers at that? The way of faith—is it meant to be done in solitude or in fellowship?
God, help me comprehend what it means to say yes when Jesus says to me in the unfolding of the day: “Come after me.” It raises fears that I am not all you believe me to be. You know how the day and its responsibilities overtake me to the point that I sometimes forget you. The lyrics from the song “Lord, When You Came to the Seashore” remind me that God is not looking for the smartest or most powerful; he’s looking for me, whom he loved first: “Lord, when you came to the seashore / You weren’t seeking the wise or the wealthy, / But only asking that I might follow.” Let me have the grace, God, to hear your Son throughout the day and respond to his call.
Lord, I want to hear your voice today. This is your day. As in the Our Father, we pray that your will be done, I pray that you take my desire and longing to see you and make it suitable to accomplish your Divine Will. As the Morning Offering calls us to do, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day. Give me the grace to hear your voice and follow.
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A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKEJesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
After saying these words, Jesus turned to his disciples and told them in private that they are blessed to see what prophets and kings desired to see and hear but did not see and hear. What is the it that Jesus refers to? The Gospel acclamation explicitly says what it is: “Behold, our Lord shall come with power; he will enlighten the eyes of his servants.” Enlightenment for his servants; servants see what the wise and the learned hoped to see and hear. When I consider myself wise, how often have I shut my eyes and closed my ears to the wisdom of God right in front of me? To be childlike in faith, is it to see what is hidden in plain sight? Jesus, reveal the Father to me.
God, help me understand who it is you sent into the world to be seen and heard. You have given everything you have to your Son, and through you I come to know him, and through what he reveals I come to know you. Holy Spirit, help me know the Father and the Son so that I can seek you out and find your dwelling, where as the first reading from Isaiah says, “There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.”
God, you hear my sighs; you see my restlessness and know that I want you near. For you, nothing is impossible. Help me through your grace recover childlike wonder—the blessedness of seeing you as you are—as I come into your presence; help me throughout the day remember to come into your presence.
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Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/tuesday-of-the-first-week-of-advent/
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MONDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWWhen Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I say to you, many will come from the east and the west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven.”
As the centurion approaches Jesus in today’s reading, he appeals to Jesus to help his servant, who, as the centurion says, “is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully.” Jesus offers to go to him and cure him, but the centurion tells him: “Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.” Jesus is amazed at his faith and heals his servant. I notice how the centurion refers to Jesus as Lord. The term comes from the Greek word kyrie, meaning “supreme in authority.” By calling Jesus “Lord,” the centurion acknowledges that Jesus, not the emperor, has supreme authority. Jesus describes the faith of the centurion as nothing he has seen in all of Israel. It is his Father, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, who has the power and authority to draw all to him.
God, help me follow the example of faith of the centurion. At every Mass, we repeat his words: “Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.” I want to comprehend that such power and authority as the centurion had over others in no way prevented him from recognizing his helplessness in a desperate situation, where he sought the good of the other.
Jesus, let me rest in you today as if I were before you, present in the Blessed Sacrament, even amid the day’s clamor. Let me give my cares to you freely so that I can know the joy of anticipation of your birth. Through your grace, keep me attentive to your word so that I can know and do your will. Like the centurion, let me be unafraid to appeal to you for help, whatever the need.
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When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I say to you, many will come from the east and the west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/monday-of-the-first-week-of-advent/
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FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENTA READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWJesus said to his disciples: “Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”
Today, the first Sunday of Advent, the Gospel reading from Matthew depicts Jesus telling the disciples about the Second Coming of Christ. Jesus compares that time to the time of Noah, where people were carrying on with everyday concerns: eating, drinking, and marrying. Jesus urges us to remain vigilant for the day when he returns. On this first day of Advent, what can I do to prepare for the arrival of Christmas, the First Coming of Christ, when Jesus becomes through his birth the Word Incarnate, God with us?
God, help me take to heart the significance of this day and of this season and where it leads me. I want to learn how to become closer to you, Lord, and devote more of my time to you. Give me the grace to see you and your work throughout the day and be grateful for your abiding presence day after day.
Thank you, Lord, for this time of expectancy, the time to await the coming of your Son, a child born of Mary in Bethlehem. The pathway to joy you make clear; embrace me with your mercy and help me stay on it so that I can say as the psalmist says: “Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.”
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
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Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/27/first-sunday-of-advent/
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Jesus said to his disciples: “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap. For that day will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth. Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the tribulations that are imminent and to stand before the Son of Man.”
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Lord, you sent an angel to John to tell him through his visions that you are coming soon and that your words are trustworthy and true. “Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, my savior!” Show me your love and mercy; help me raise my head to face my redemption. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/saturday-of-the-thirty-fourth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Thank you, God, for the gift of faith, strengthened through the Eucharist and the sacraments. Help me see, as you see, the connectedness of your creation and the solid foundation of truth on which it stands: “My words will not pass away.”
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Thank you, God, for the gift of faith, strengthened through the Eucharist and the sacraments. Help me see, as you see, the connectedness of your creation and the solid foundation of truth on which it stands: “My words will not pass away.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/friday-of-the-thirty-fourth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him.
These words from today’s Gospel reading stand out as a beautiful example of gratitude. The ten lepers first cried out to Jesus as he entered a village: “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” They reached out for Jesus’ help, and he answered their prayers immediately. But only one, realizing he had been healed, returned to Jesus to thank him and glorify God. Jesus asks him about the other nine who did not return and ultimately says to him: “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”
Father in heaven, thank you for a new day. Thank you for the example of the healed leper who returned to Jesus to give thanks. I want to comprehend that all I have is your gift; my whole being is your gift. How do I remember that, even when things don’t go as I think they should go, or when suffering or hardship seems to diminish the gift your your presence?
Lord, give me the grace to be grateful for your blessings. Let me be a means of peace today on this day of thanksgiving. Stay at the table with me as we share our blessings together. I ask you, Lord, to trust in your mercy so that I too can be merciful. Thanks be to God!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/thanksgiving-day/
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Today’s Gospel follows yesterday’s reading, where Jesus speaks to the crowd about the signs of the end times. As he describes the coming persecution, he says that because of his name we will be hated by all but “not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By perseverance you will secure your lives.”
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Thank you, God, for the gift of your presence! Grant me peace today through the knowledge that you are with me every moment of this day, and let me not be afraid to remain faithful to you until death so to gain the crown of life. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/23/wednesday-of-the-thirty-fourth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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MEMORIAL OF SAINT CECILIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, Jesus said, “All that you see here–the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.”
Today’s Gospel reading from Luke follows immediately where yesterday’s reading left off, where Jesus observed the widow who contributed two small coins to the treasury. The placement of the two readings together come back to the theme of earthly wealth compared to the true wealth of dependence on God. Jesus seems to say, “Don’t you see the ruins that this temple will soon become?” And today he says not to be deceived by others who come in his name. Life is short; a day, a lifetime, passes quickly. Where do I place my faith?
God, help me see beyond passing things and keep my gaze fixed on you in this short life. I want to see you through the lives of others I encounter and in the opportunities you present to me. Nothing lasts but you. Through your grace help me remember you in moments when I stand among the rubble of something that seemed to my mind unassailable. I don’t know or understand well enough, Lord, that your love for me is not deception; you alone are unassailable. As Saint Thérèse says: “Jesus is on fire with love for us. Look at his adorable face! Look at his eyes lifeless and lowered! Look at his wounds. Look at Jesus in his face. There you will see how he loves us.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Saint Cecilia, pray for us!
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While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, Jesus said, “All that you see here–the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/memorial-of-saint-cecilia-virgin-and-martyr/
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How quieted is my soul, Lord, when I am able to say to you as Mary said to the archangel Gabriel: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word.” Take my works, joys, and sufferings of this day as an offering to you! This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/memorial-of-the-presentation-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/
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Thank you, Lord, for your kingship. Only Christ, the Son of God, can say from the cross, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” Jesus, remember me, and the promise of your mercy. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/20/the-solemnity-of-our-lord-jesus-christ-king-of-the-universe/
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“The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/saturday-of-the-thirty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/18/friday-of-the-thirty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Thank you, Lord, for the gift of your presence. I know you love your children and never turn away. Help me remember to turn to you today to see you through the eyes of faith. Saint Elizabeth, pray for us! This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/17/memorial-of-saint-elizabeth-of-hungary-religious/
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“‘Sir, he has ten gold coins.’ He replied, ‘I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me.’” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/16/wednesday-of-the-thirty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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And Jesus said to [Zacchaeus], “Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/tuesday-of-the-thirty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“Lord, please let me see.” Jesus told him, “Have sight; your faith has saved you.” He immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God. When they saw this, all the people gave praise to God. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/monday-of-the-thirty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said, “Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. . . . You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/thirty-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/12/memorial-of-saint-josaphat-bishop-and-martyr/
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Jesus said to his disciples: “Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/memorial-of-saint-martin-of-tours-bishop/
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“The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or, ‘There it is.’ For behold, the Kingdom of God is among you.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/memorial-of-saint-leo-the-great-pope-and-doctor-of-the-church/
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Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his Body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/feast-of-the-dedication-of-the-lateran-basilica-in-rome/
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Jesus said to the Apostles, “When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’ ” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/tuesday-of-the-thirty-second-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the one through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/monday-of-the-thirty-second-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/thirty-second-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him. And he said to them, “You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of God.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/05/saturday-of-the-thirty-first-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said to his disciples, “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than the children of light.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/04/memorial-of-saint-charles-borromeo-bishop/
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What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them
would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert
and go after the lost one until he finds it?
And when he does find it,
he sets it on his shoulders with great joy
and, upon his arrival home,
he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them,
‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/03/thursday-of-the-thirty-first-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said to the crowds: “For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/02/the-commemoration-of-all-the-faithful-departed-all-souls/
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Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest, says the Lord. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/11/01/solemnity-of-all-saints/
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On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/monday-of-the-thirty-first-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/30/thirty-first-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. . . . Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/saturday-of-the-thirtieth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/28/feast-of-saints-simon-and-jude-apostles/
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Someone asked Jesus, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/26/wednesday-of-the-thirtieth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.” Again he said, “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/25/tuesday-of-the-thirtieth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.” He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/monday-of-the-thirtieth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’ I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/23/thirtieth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/saturday-of-the-twenty-ninth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west you say immediately that it is going to rain–and so it does; and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the south you say that it is going to be hot–and so it is. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/friday-of-the-twenty-ninth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/20/thursday-of-the-twenty-ninth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said to his disciples: “Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”
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Jesus said to the seventy-two disciples, “Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/feast-of-saint-luke-evangelist/
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Then [Jesus] said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/memorial-of-saint-ignatius-of-antioch-bishop-and-martyr/
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The Lord said, “Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/16/twenty-ninth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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“When they take you before synagogues and before rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what your defense will be or about what you are to say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you should say.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/memorial-of-saint-teresa-of-jesus-virgin-and-doctor-of-the-church/
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“There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops. . . . Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? Yet not one of them has escaped the notice of God. Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/14/friday-of-the-twenty-eighth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Therefore, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute’ in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who died between the altar and the temple building.
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“Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God. . . . You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/12/wednesday-of-the-twenty-eighth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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The Lord said to him, “Oh you Pharisees! Although you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, inside you are filled with plunder and evil. You fools! Did not the maker of the outside also make the inside? But as to what is within, give alms, and behold, everything will be clean for you.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/11/tuesday-of-the-twenty-eighth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/monday-of-the-twenty-eighth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/saturday-of-the-twenty-seventh-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/memorial-of-our-lady-of-the-rosary/
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And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/thursday-of-the-twenty-seventh-week-in-ordinary-time/
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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.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/05/wednesday-of-the-twenty-seventh-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.” The Lord said to her in reply, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/memorial-of-saint-francis-of-assisi/
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But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/monday-of-the-twenty-seventh-week-in-ordinary-time/
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The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." The Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/02/twenty-seventh-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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”At that very moment he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. . . . No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/10/01/memorial-of-saint-therese-of-the-child-jesus-virgin-and-doctor-of-the-church/
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And as for you, Capernaum, “Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/30/memorial-of-saint-jerome-priest-and-doctor-of-the-church/
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Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.” Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.” And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/feast-of-saints-michael-gabriel-and-raphael-archangels/
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As Jesus and his disciples were proceeding on their journey, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus answered him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.” And to another he said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.” But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/wednesday-of-the-twenty-sixth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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When the days for Jesus to be taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem, and he sent messengers ahead of him. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/memorial-of-saint-vincent-de-paul-priest/
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An argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest. Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child and placed it by his side and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/26/monday-of-the-twenty-sixth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Abraham replied, “My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/25/twenty-sixth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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Once when Jesus was praying in solitude, and the disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, ‘One of the ancient prophets has arisen.’” Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said in reply, “The Christ of God.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/23/memorial-of-saint-pius-of-pietrelcina-priest/
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“But Herod said, ‘John I beheaded. Who then is this about whom I hear such things?’ And he kept trying to see him.” In the Gospel reading according to Luke, Herod is perplexed by Jesus. Who is this Jesus he kept hearing about, and what does it mean that he kept trying to see him? This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/22/thursday-of-the-twenty-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“As Jesus passed by, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him.” In today’s Gospel reading, Matthew immediately drops whatever he is doing and follows Jesus. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/21/feast-of-saint-matthew-apostle-and-evangelist/
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The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him but were unable to join him because of the crowd. He was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they wish to see you.” He said to them in reply, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/20/memorial-of-saints-andrew-kim-tae-gon-priest-and-paul-chong-ha-sang-and-companions-martyrs/
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Jesus said to the crowd: “No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel or sets it under a bed; rather, he places it on a lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible, and nothing secret that will not be known and come to light.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/monday-of-the-twenty-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Which type of seed are you? "As for the seed that fell among thorns, they are the ones who have heard, but as they go along, they are choked by the anxieties and riches and pleasures of life, and they fail to produce mature fruit." This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/17/saturday-of-the-twenty-fourth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/memorial-of-saints-cornelius-pope-and-cyprian-bishop-martyrs/
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When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
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Jesus said to Nicodemus: “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/feast-of-the-exaltation-of-the-holy-cross/
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He stepped forward and touched the coffin; at this the bearers halted, and he said, ”Young man, I tell you, arise!” The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/memorial-of-saint-john-chrysostom-bishop-and-doctor-of-the-church/
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When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him and, turning, said to the crowd following him, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.” When the messengers returned to the house, they found the slave in good health. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/12/monday-of-the-twenty-fourth-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees, “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between them. After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation. When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/11/twenty-fourth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus said to his disciples: “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I command? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, listens to my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when the flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built. But the one who listens and does not act is like a person who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, it collapsed at once and was completely destroyed.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/10/saturday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/09/memorial-of-saint-peter-claver-priest/
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FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/feast-of-the-nativity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/
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Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/wednesday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. . . . Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/tuesday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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Then Jesus said to scribes and Pharisees, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/05/monday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time/
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What Jesus says seems harsh and confusing: “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/04/twenty-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
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Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/02/friday-of-the-twenty-second-week-in-ordinary-time/
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From today's Gospel reading: They came and filled both boats so that the boats were in danger of sinking. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/thursday-of-the-twenty-second-week-in-ordinary-time/
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At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He laid his hands on each of them and cured them. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/wednesday-of-the-twenty-second-week-in-ordinary-time/
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“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet! Come out of him!” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/tuesday-of-the-twenty-second-week-in-ordinary-time/
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