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Stir up the fire of your faith! Christ is not a figure of the past. He is not a memory lost in history. He lives! As Paul says, ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today - yes, and forever!’
- Escriva
("He lives!" How is Christ alive in you, and you in Christ?)
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Eph 4:32-5:8; Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6;
Lk 13:10-17
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.
But the leader of the synagogue,
indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath,
said to the crowd in reply,
“There are six days when work should be done.
Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.”
The Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites!
Does not each one of you on the sabbath
untie his ox or his ass from the manger
and lead it out for watering?
This daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now,
ought she not
to have been set free on the sabbath day
from this bondage?”
When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Scripture |
“Be kind to one another … forgiving one another as God has
forgiven you.”
How painfully challenging it is to be kind and forgiving toward “wrong thinkers” who oppose me in my family, church or workplace. It’s often easier to fight because “I know I’m right; I must make him see the light,” or to close my heart against someone because of what “she did to me, after all I’ve done for her.” At
such times it is best to remember that God has forgiven me more than I will ever be required to forgive, that our actions and demeanor often do more than our words to win over another, and that God has not commanded me to win, only to love.
“That my attitude toward others may always reflect God’s love.”
- from preacherexchange.com
mycatholic.com
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Theological Gems from Emile Merch's Theology of the Mystical Body - selected by Jim and Tyra Arraj
Book III: Christ
Chapter 11: Nature of the Redemption
369. Through the grace of the Incarnation, the Son, the assumed human nature, and the regenerated human race are all united.
The grace of divinization flows to Christians from Christ and hence from the Son. That is the essence of grace. This divinization must have a "filial" character and must sanctify
men by fulfilling its sole purpose, which is to make them worthy members of Him who is the Son.
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