Are you ready?: Memorial of Saint John Paul II, Pp. (22nd October, 2019).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Homily (Reflection) for the Memorial of Saint John Paul II, Pp. (22^nd October, 2019) on the Gospel and the Memorial</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 50%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rom 5:12.15.17-21;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 39:7-10.17. (R.cf.vv.8.9);<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 12:35-38</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qoBjPbv9dII/Xa59JnTpi0I/AAAAAAAAFc0/kq_MKO-narACs6rAETnBp3cfnYQMpWnlACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/22.10.2019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="212" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qoBjPbv9dII/Xa59JnTpi0I/AAAAAAAAFc0/kq_MKO-narACs6rAETnBp3cfnYQMpWnlACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/22.10.2019.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 4pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pope Saint John Paul II (the Great) was born Karol Józef Wojtyła (18^th May, 1920 – 2^nd April, 2005). He was ordained a priest on 1^st November 1946, consecrated a bishop on 28^th September, 1958, created a Cardinal on 26^th June, 1967, and a Pope from 16^th October, 1978 to 2^nd April, 2005. John Paul II improved the Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. He visited 129 countries during his pontificate, beatified 1,340 people and canonised 483 saints. A key goal of his papacy was to transform and reposition the Catholic Church. He was beatified on 1^st May, 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI and was canonized on 27^th April, 2014 by Pope Francis. Pope Saint John Paul II is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Kraków, Young Catholics, Families, among others.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I%20(2018-2019)/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Ninth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I)%20(2019).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Are you ready</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many have plans of preparing for eternal life. However, the question is when.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We ought to be ever ready like servants waiting for their master’s return. Those he finds alert will be blessed. He will make them sit at the table and serve them himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>However, he will come at any time. Jesus goes further, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt 0.7in; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">...if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once, a newly assigned devil was explaining his strategy to a veteran. “My plan,” he said proudly, “is to convince the man that there is no God.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“No,” said the senior devil, “that will not work. All the man has to do is take a look beyond the earth and he will know that God exists.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Well, then,” said the junior devil, “I will convince him that there is no devil.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“That is more promising,” Replied the veteran tempter, “but, still, if he takes a close look around his own neighbourhood, he will realise that the devil exists.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Here’s the best plan. Don’t try to convince him that there is no God or that there is no devil. Just tell him there is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no hurry</b>.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I%20(2018-2019)/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Ninth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I)%20(2019).docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Father Sagayanathan concludes with these words, “Evidently that is the current strategy to bring people down to hell”. Be warned!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pope Saint John Paul II we celebrate today was not foreign to many. We witnessed his life, death, beatification, and canonization. And today, we celebrate him as a saint of God. If only we can repent today, we will rejoice in heaven with all the saints of God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: Matt 6:1-4; Acts 10:1-4; Rom 13:8-10; 1Jn 4:7-21.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thought for today:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Are you ready</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Let us pray:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"> Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Remind me that my days are numbered – how fleeting my life is (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 39:4</b>) – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May God bless you all+</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.7in;"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I%20(2018-2019)/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Ninth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I)%20(2019).docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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(2009). <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Launching pad: Stories for Sunday homilies – A, B & C</i></b>. Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, pp. 320-321.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> </div> </div>

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What consists life: Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (21st October, 2019).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Homily (Reflection) for Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time (I) </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">21^st October, 2019</b>)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b><br /> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rom 4:20-25;<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lk 1:69-75. (R. cf. v.68);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 12:13-21</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: What consists life</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kVgtMpByXQc/Xa0mbQlv7MI/AAAAAAAAFco/dMsKHlLImg8bJQvgJOkYR8uZjIXS2QZPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/21.10.2019.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="210" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kVgtMpByXQc/Xa0mbQlv7MI/AAAAAAAAFco/dMsKHlLImg8bJQvgJOkYR8uZjIXS2QZPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/21.10.2019.png" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Someone begged Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But Jesus replied, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” He then warned the crowd, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Jesus also told them the parable of a rich man whose land produced abundantly. He planned how to store up his grain and goods for himself. However, “God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These words of God to the rich man ought to ring bell continually in our ears. We are after so many things in this world. Most regrettably, some of them have nothing to offer us even in this present life. Yet we fall headlong in pursuit of them and are sometimes even ready to die for them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is crucial to question ourselves from time to time of the essence of the things we pursue and the ones already in our possessions. Again, it is also necessary to consider if we will leave this world with any.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Readings</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Matt 13:44-50</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thought for today:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What consists life</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Let us pray:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; 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What consists life: Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (21st October, 2019).

Homily (Reflection) for Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time (I) ( 21 st October, 2019 ) on the Gospel   Rom 4:20-25; ...

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Pray like who you are: Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (C) (20th October, 2019).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homily (Reflection) for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (C) (20</span>^{<span style="font-size: small;">th</span>}<span style="font-size: large;"> October, 2019) on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Ex 17:8-13;</span></div> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Ps 120. (R. cf. v. 2);</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">2Tim 3:14 – 4:2;</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 18:1-8</b>.</span></span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oR5exrJQMn0/XavVSajSlHI/AAAAAAAAFcc/abSLZ-4WsGk8u5LXqozrO6uvIu1FNfdXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20.10.2019.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oR5exrJQMn0/XavVSajSlHI/AAAAAAAAFcc/abSLZ-4WsGk8u5LXqozrO6uvIu1FNfdXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20.10.2019.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">One man suffering from arthritis was visited by one of his neighbours in need. Because the disease sometimes makes walking very difficult for him, there is an intercom that aids him communicate with other people in other parts of the building. After his neighbour had narrated his problems and what he was looking for through the intercom, as a way of exercising himself on one part and also to show concern, the man decided to go downstairs by himself and offer the much needed help. Because he could not reach briskly, by the time he reached downstairs, his neighbour was nowhere to be found. He had gone to seek for help from somewhere else thinking that the man might never come down eventually despite the fact that he told him that he was coming.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Topic:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Pray like who you are</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In general, different people have different ways of seeing things and this includes how they relate with others including their creator. For example, magicians and those patronizing them expect spectacular and quick responses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They also expect the exact things they want and the way they want them happen, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Acts 8:9-19</b>. Pagans think that being verbose and lots of sacrifices will make them receive what they ask for and fast too, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 6:7</b>. Christians are taught to pray not just for their needs but above all for the will of God to be done. This is made manifest in the Lord’s prayer among other places, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 6:10; 26:42, Heb 10:7, 9</b> because it is by God’s will that we exist and were created, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rev 4:11</b>. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego relied on the will of God despite their faithfulness, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dan 3:16-18</b>. It is important to note that some Christians today including the leaders do approach God either as magicians or pagans or both.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Before going further, we should not see this parable as a way of comparing the unjust judge with God. No! Just like the parable of that friend who went to borrow from his friend at midnight, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 11: 5-13</b>, the message is “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If you</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!</b>” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 11:13</b>).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The widow in today’s gospel was an example for all on how steadfast we should be at prayer. For Barclay, she “was a symbol of all who are poor and defenceless”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/fb/YEAR%20C%202018%20-%202019/Ordinary%20Time%20of%20the%20Year%20(C)/Twenty-Ninth%20Sunday%20of%20the%20Year%20(C)%202019.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">. Being poor here refers to any form of lack at all. This widow was persistent because she had no other means of getting justice. It is the correct Christian disposition towards God in prayer; we should never see God as an alternative. Hence the first verse of this gospel reading, gave us the essence of the parable as the “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">need to pray always and not to lose heart</b>” whether one receives what he or she prays for immediately or not.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">How many of us still pray to God as Christians? Unlike the widow in the gospel, we tend to do like the man we saw in our introductory story. Jumping from one place to another is so common today that we don’t even see anything wrong in it. As we pray, we should always remember the last verse of the gospel, “… when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” That is, when God turns towards you for that thing that you are asking for, where will you be – in His house or the house of the devil? Even when it appears to be delayed, it must surely come to pass, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hab 2:3,</b> unless it is not God’s will.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Although Jesus enjoined us to “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 7:7</b>), we ought to pray always, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Thess 5:17)</b> not just for one problem or another. Apostle Paul asks us to “Pray at all times in the Spirit ...” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eph 6:18</b>). Praying in the Spirit is praying in accordance with the Spirit of God which has been sent into our hearts and is crying "Abba! Father!" cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gal 4:6</b>. Hence, Saint Jude wrote, “But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jude 1:20</b>). As we calculate how long we have prayed for, we must remember <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the bitter truth</b> that “... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we do not know how to pray as we ought</b>, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Spirit himself intercedes for us</b> with sighs too deep for words” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rom 8:26</b>). That is to say <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 7:7</b> holds when we pray according to the Holy Spirit. If this is anything to go by, one might be asking for one thing and the Spirit in him or her asking for something else and we know that God listens to His Spirit, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 2:11</b>. That you are alive today might be simply an answer to the prayer made by the Spirit of God in you.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I would like us to take two things from the Letter of Saint James – the importance of prayer and the object of our prayer:</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt 0.7in; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jas 4:2-3</b>). </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">That intention you have prayed for is it not for your pleasures?</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">When the author of the Letter to the Hebrews asked for prayers, he noted that they had clear conscience, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heb 13:18</b>. What does our consciences look like even as we are now before God? We must be at peace with God before raising our hands before him because the prayer of the righteous man has great power in its effects, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jas 5:16</b>. There is need for our minds to agree with the Spirit of God in our prayer, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 14:15</b>.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 8pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lk 11:5-13, Heb 10:7-10, Jas 4:1-10; Dan 3:1-24.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 8pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thought for today:</b> <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pray like a Christian.</span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Let us pray</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: </span>“Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God! Let thy good spirit lead me on a level path!” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 143:10</b>).</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lord, help us to pray in agreement with your Holy Spirit that is in us according to thy holy will<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">– Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are free to share this reflection with others if you consider it worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; 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Pray like who you are: Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (C) (20th October, 2019).

Homily (Reflection) for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (C) (20 th October, 2019) on the Gospel Ex 17:8-13; Ps 120. (R. cf. v. ...

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Acknowledging Christ: Saturday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (19th October, 2019).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Homily (Reflection) for Saturday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (19^th October, 2019) on the Gospel</span></span></b></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BVM on Saturday, Opt Mem</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b><br /> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rom 4:13.16-18;<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 104:6-9.42-43. (R. v.8);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 12:8-12</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Acknowledging Christ</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eatuhU04JzU/XaqM5z0dutI/AAAAAAAAFcQ/mX9EA92I7REkprdR8JGwgCSIxyDdEBatwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/19.10.2019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="301" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eatuhU04JzU/XaqM5z0dutI/AAAAAAAAFcQ/mX9EA92I7REkprdR8JGwgCSIxyDdEBatwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/19.10.2019.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus said in today’s gospel, “...I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God; but whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These words of Jesus sound so sweet that often we forget that the call has a price tag. Jesus also warns, “...they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 24:9; cf. Matt 10:22a; Mk 13:13a; Lk 21:17</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear friends, while deciding for Jesus, remember that it involves weeping and lamenting. However, we should not be discouraged because of the sorrows of this present life because they will certainly turn into good. Jesus put it thus, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 16:20</b>). Again, we must remember that “...he who endures to the end will be saved” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 10:22b; cf. MK 13:13b</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: Matt 10:16-25. 24:9-14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thought for today</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: Between temporal sorrows and eternal damnation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Let us pray</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">: Lord, assist us to damn every temporal sorrow that will come our way as we acknowledge you before our brothers and sisters – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are free to share this reflection with others if you consider it worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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Acknowledging Christ: Saturday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (19th October, 2019).

Homily (Reflection) for Saturday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (19 th October, 2019) on the Gospel ( BVM on Saturday...

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The harvest is plentiful (Lk 10:2): Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist (18th October, 2019).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Homily (Reflection) for the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist (18^th October, 2019) on the Gospel and the Feast</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b><br /> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2Tim 4:10-17;<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 144:10-13.17-18. (R. v.12);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 10:1-9</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 4pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gqPBD_clJgU/XakgMDam3pI/AAAAAAAAFcE/apyNlvqWc18Szz4YCezuP23XuvlXjnGjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/18.10.2019.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="202" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gqPBD_clJgU/XakgMDam3pI/AAAAAAAAFcE/apyNlvqWc18Szz4YCezuP23XuvlXjnGjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/18.10.2019.png" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is believed that Luke was born a Greek and a Gentile. According to Eusebius, he was born at Antioch in Syria. Saint Paul identified him as a physician, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Col 4:14</b>. He joined Paul's company at Troas and travelled with him. Luke was faithful to him even when all deserted him, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Tim 4:11</b>. He wrote the Gospel according to Luke and Acts of the Apostles based on the teachings of Saint Paul, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:1-3</b>. His gospel shows special sensitivity to evangelizing the Gentiles. It is the gospel of the poor and of social justice. Mary’s Magnificat (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:46-55</b>), the Annunciation (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:26-38</b>), the Presentation (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 2:22-38</b>), Jesus' disappearance (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 2:41-51</b>), among other topics are contained only in his gospel. Forgiveness and God's mercy to sinners are also of first importance to Luke. He has respect for women. Some early writers believed that he was martyred, whereas others hold he lived a long life. He is the patron saint of physicians and surgeons.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I%20(2018-2019)/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Eighth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I)%20(2019).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: The harvest is plentiful </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 10:2</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In today’s gospel, Jesus appointed seventy others and sent them out in pairs with this instruction in part, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers into his harvest.... See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus’ instruction shows us among other things that the work is enormous and requires more labourers. However, considering the fact that many move about today with different titles all in the name of God, one wonders whether these words of Jesus still hold today. Without going deep into this, these words are still as valid today as they were when Jesus first said them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Again, the disciples never objected to His instruction to pray for labourers. They knew and accepted the fact that they would not be able to carry out the task alone. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In our world today, it seems that the work is under tussle. Everyone is claiming today that it is their birthright. Saint Luke we celebrate today was neither one of the twelve nor among the seventy that Jesus sent in today’s gospel. Yet he made contributions that no other person made as we have seen some of them in his history. There is need for us to pray fervently for more labourers and also open our hands to welcome others. The work is too vast that no one will ever disturb the other in the field. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: Num 11:16-30.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thought for today:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> The work is big enough</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Let us pray:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"> Lord, give us the grace to open our hearts to accept our brothers and sisters – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; 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The harvest is plentiful (Lk 10:2): Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist (18th October, 2019).

Homily (Reflection) for the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist (18 th October, 2019) on the Gospel and the Feast   2Tim 4:10-17; ...

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Last in the list: Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, B.M. (17th October, 2019).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Homily (Reflection) for the Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, B.M. (17^th October, 2019) on the Gospel and the Memorial</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 50%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rom 3:21-30;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 129:1-6. (R.v.7);<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 11:47-54</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 4pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VHN9dYYyeHY/XafhfqqrfUI/AAAAAAAAFb4/S1dFVaIS-Fc53DTSuCUZF1pSKT48cfcUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/17.10.2019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VHN9dYYyeHY/XafhfqqrfUI/AAAAAAAAFb4/S1dFVaIS-Fc53DTSuCUZF1pSKT48cfcUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/17.10.2019.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saint Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35 – c. 108), was an Apostolic Father, student of the Apostle John, and the third bishop of Antioch. En route to Rome for his martyrdom, he wrote seven letters to different Christian communities in which he discussed among other topics, ecclesiology, the sacraments, and the role of bishops.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I%20(2018-2019)/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Eighth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I)%20(2019).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Saint Ignatius was the first to use the term “catholic” to describe the whole Church. He was martyred during the reign of Emperor Trajan, because he refused to renounce the Christian faith and was brutally devoured by wild beasts in a public spectacle.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I%20(2018-2019)/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Eighth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I)%20(2019).docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Last in the list</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus further denounced the lawyers for being witnesses and also approving the killing of the prophets by their ancestors. He also said in part, “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.” The concluding verses read, “When he went outside, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile toward him and to cross-examine him about many things, lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus’ outright condemnation of evil brought against Him extreme hostility. The same measure awaits anyone who follows His footsteps, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 10:25</b>. He warns, “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 15:20</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Expect no worldly crown for condemning evil. Even one’s brothers and sisters of the same faith may also misunderstand him/her. The last in the list to expect from the world for following Jesus is her approval. However, “Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 5:11</b>). We must always do the will of our Father in heaven, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 7:21;</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 5:30</b>. He will grant justice to His people who cry to Him day and night without delay. However, it is important to keep faith, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 18:7-8</b>. God will wipe away the tears of His children, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is 25:8</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: 2Cor 12:1-10.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thought for today:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> God comforts His children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Let us pray: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Lord, we need your grace to always do your will – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Saint Ignatius of Antioch – Pray for us</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; 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