COMMENTS ON READINGS SUNDAY XXX IN ORDINARY TIME. CYCLE
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WORLD DAY OF SPREAD DE LA FE
1 st Reading: Ecclesiasticus 35, 15b-1720-22a
The Lord is a just God, can not be partial, not partial against the poor, hears the prayers of the oppressed, not ignores the cries of the fatherless or the widow when he repeats his complaint, his sentences get their favor and their cry to the skies, the cries of the poor through the clouds and up to God not rest; never stops until God hears and the just judge it justice. The World Mission Day, better known as "Day Mission Sunday" focuses our attention on today's liturgy.
Psalm 33: If the distressed calls upon the Lord, He listens.
2 nd Reading: II Timothy 4, 6-8. 16-18
Dear brother: I am about to be sacrificed, and the time of my departure is imminent. I have fought the good fight, I raced to the finish, I kept the faith. Now the crown of righteousness awaits me, with which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award me on that day: and not only me but to everyone who has love for his coming. The first time I defended myself, all left me, and no one attended. - May God forgive them -. But the Lord helped me and gave me strength to proclaim the word fully, so that all the Gentiles might hear it. He delivered me from the lion's mouth. The Lord will remain free from all evil, save me and take me to his kingdom of heaven. To Him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Gospel: Luke 18, 9-14
At that time, Jesus told this parable to some who, taking righteous, they felt confident and despised others: "Two men went the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, the other a publican. The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: "Oh God, I give you thanks, I am not like others: robbers, evildoers, adulterers or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and pay tithes on all I have. "The tax collector, however, stayed behind and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, just beat his breast, saying," Oh God! be merciful to this sinner. "I say the latter went home justified, the former not. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
WANT TO SEE JESUS \u200b\u200b
The theme of this year makes direct reference to this: "We want to see Jesus" . So the Greeks expressed their desire to be closer to the apostles James and Philip. Those foreigners who had heard of Jesus, they want to meet him personally. They are not satisfied with hearing Want to talk to him first-hand experience of faith in Christ, the joy of salvation.
The desire to know Jesus is a universal desire. Although not expressed verbally and although they are not aware of it, men and women of all ages want to see Jesus, because Jesus is the fullest realization of the dreams of happiness.
And the missionary mandate is also universal to all Christians. If all men have the desire, almost always silent, to know Jesus, all Christians have an obligation to show a Jesus who is our Redeemer and Lord of all.
All who know and follow Christ we have to be missionaries because all those who do not know or follow, like, at the bottom of his heart, to know. Today more than ever, as modern man so full of things your heart feels empty. Benedict XVI expressed in these words in his message for this day missionary "also the people of our time, perhaps unconsciously, ask believers not only to" talk "of Jesus, but to" make do "to Jesus , to make shine the Face of the Redeemer in every corner of the earth in the generations of the new millennium and especially to young people from every continent, and subject audiences of of the Gospel. They must realize that Christians have the word of Christ because He is Truth, because they have found in him the sense of truth for your life. "
Making Jesus visible. Here, expressed in a direct and living The mission of the Christian. San Pablo, in the second reading today, and near the time of his death, shows us the quiet confidence of one who has dedicated his entire life to make Jesus visible ( "I am not, is Christ lives in me "Gal 2, 20," Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ "1 Cor 11, 1 ).
The Pope, in the message above, emphasizes that there can be an effective missionary without have previously experienced a deep personal conversion. Thus, today's Gospel shows us the true heart contrite, that is the publican in the temple, to flee from the temptation of the Pharisee, we do not condone nor do we think easily, thus the mission of proclaiming Christ depends only our own strengths and talents.
imitating the humility of the publican in the temple, we will be able to be missionaries, with our continuing resource to the Lord who gives grace (prayer), our daily sacrifice offered by the missions, God becomes a blessing for those in first line of evangelization in remote locations and, finally, we will be more generous when it comes to contribute financially to the mission of the Church, which is the third mode of working.
Mary, Queen of the Missions, help us not forget the missionaries and missionaries be ourselves all the time, place and circumstance.
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