Message of 10-5-2021

Published: Tue, 10/05/21

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Tuesday:October 5, 2021

Message of the Day

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
- Max Lucado

(As the old saying goes, "pray as you pray.")

Daily Readings

Jon 3:1-10; Psalm 130:1b-2, 3-4ab, 7-8

Lk 10:38-42

Jesus entered a village
where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him.
She had a sister named Mary
who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak.
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.”

USCCB readings

Reflection on the Scriptures

The resounding truth throughout today’s message thankfully goes beyond our need to listen to and follow God’s will for our lives. Yes, we so often fail at both. Yet, thankfully, we serve a God of Divine Mercy. Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska spent her life listening to God and recording those messages in her diary. She clearly laid out “God’s loving message of Divine Mercy”. That glorious fact saved Jonah. Not only did God save him from drowning, something he clearly deserved, but it also prompted God to deliver the message to him a “second time” – giving Jonah a second chance. It was that saving grace that prevented God’s destruction of Nineveh, even though they deserved destruction. Their repentance resulted in God’s forgiveness, his Divine Mercy.

- by Larry Hopp

Creighton Online Ministries

Spiritual Reading

The Son of God Became Human

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

- https://amzn.to/38srWWD

Part One, Section Two, Chapter Three

Article 8: I Believe in the Holy Spirit

IV. THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME

John, precursor, prophet, and baptist

719 John the Baptist is "more than a prophet."94 In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the cycle of prophets begun by Elijah.95 He proclaims the imminence of the consolation of Israel; he is the "voice" of the Consoler who is coming.96 As the Spirit of truth will also do, John "came to bear witness to the light."97 In John's sight, the Spirit thus brings to completion the careful search of the prophets and fulfills the longing of the angels.98 "He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God. . . . Behold, the Lamb of God."99

720 Finally, with John the Baptist, the Holy Spirit begins the restoration to man of "the divine likeness," prefiguring what he would achieve with and in Christ. John's baptism was for repentance; baptism in water and the Spirit will be a new birth.100

(Footnote references in the Catechism.)

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