Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Today's Readings
2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a; Ps 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19; Rom 6:3-4, 8-11; Mt 10:37-42
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The promises of the Lord I will sing forever; through all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness. The psalm's permanence - forever, all generations, faithfulness - is the horizon against which the week's grief is set. The fall of Jerusalem, the exile by Babylon's streams, the ruins of Lamentations - all of it within the faithfulness that endures forever.
Consider yourselves dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus. The baptismal instruction is the new orientation: not trying to die to sin and live for God, but reckoning it as already accomplished in the death and resurrection of Christ. You died with him. You were raised with him. Death no longer has power over you. Live from that.
In the light of your countenance they walk. The people who know the joyful shout, who walk in the light of the Lord's face - they are the people who received the week of Jerusalem's fall and Lamentations' grief and still sing the promises forever. The faithfulness endures through the grief, not around it.
Prayer of the Faithful
- For those in the evening of life who have been singing the Lord's promises through many decades of grief and joy, that the forever of the psalm would be the horizon they finish toward, we pray to the Lord.
- For those who need to receive the baptismal reality - that they died with Christ and live with him, that death no longer has the power they have been giving it - we pray to the Lord.
- In this Sacred Heart month, for the heart that receives every act of hospitality as given to himself, we pray to the Lord.
Something to Do
Whoever gives a cup of cold water to one of these little ones - truly I say to you they will not lose their reward. Give one small act of hospitality this week to someone smaller or less noticed than yourself. Not dramatically - a cup of cold water. The Lord receives it.
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