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Part of the Church: Friday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (22nd September, 2017).

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus went through cities and villages proclaiming and
bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. He was accompanied by the twelve
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities. These women
provided for them out of their resources. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Recall that when Jesus met Peter, Andrew, James, and John,
they were fishermen. He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for
people.” They all left everything and followed Him, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 4:19,21. 19:27; Mk 1:17,20.</b></span> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">10:28; Lk 5:10b-11.</span></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">18:28</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">. Saint Mark summarized the purpose of the twelve in these words, “...he
appointed twelve ... to be with him, and to be sent out to preach, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mk 3:14</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The women in today’s gospel were cured of evil spirits and
infirmities. On their part, they provided for Jesus and His apostles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saint Paul describes the Church as a body, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 12:12-13</b>. Every part has specific
function/s, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 12:17-19</b>. We are
all members of His body, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eph 5:30</b>.
And we all have functions. No healthy part of a body is functionless. As a member
of the church, do you perform your functions? We must support one other by
doing our respective functions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<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%;">You have responsibilities</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>
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<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%;"> God help us always to be conscious
that we are parts of the Church and to do our duties well – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Part of the Church: Friday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (22nd September, 2017).

Homily (Reflection) for Friday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (22 nd September, 2017) on the Gospel 1Tim 6:2-12; ...

Really well?: Feast of Saint Matthew, Ap. Evang. (21st September, 2017).

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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Homily (Reflection) for the Feast of Saint
Matthew, Ap. Evang. (21<sup>st</sup> September, 2017) on the Gospel and the
Feast<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Eph 4:1-7.11-13;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 18:2-5. (R.v.5);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEfUAlqI0ytu_BNZk-fQEr4MkIfVBoXO-6pwq8Es1qT1mbsDQCPObH-tsC1xD3vJ3qMCKl0eyZ6xTXZPbV9EarOAChkqcV78_R1AZqcSRoEutz-iR6gXSJMXPgDEkfrawPfNceyc3Beg/s1600/21.09.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="226" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEfUAlqI0ytu_BNZk-fQEr4MkIfVBoXO-6pwq8Es1qT1mbsDQCPObH-tsC1xD3vJ3qMCKl0eyZ6xTXZPbV9EarOAChkqcV78_R1AZqcSRoEutz-iR6gXSJMXPgDEkfrawPfNceyc3Beg/s200/21.09.2016.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, is believed to be same as Levi recorded by Mark and
Luke, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mk 2:14; Lk 5:27</b>. He was
son of Alphaeus, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mk 2:14</b>.
Matthew was a tax collector, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt
9:9; Mk 2:14; Lk 5:27</b>. He was listed among the apostles, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 10:3; Mk 3:18; Lk 6:15; Acts 1:13</b>.
Matthew wrote one of the gospels and is the patron Saint of Accountants, Actors,
Bankers, Bookkeepers, Tax collectors, and Taxi Drivers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus saw Matthew in today’s gospel sitting at the tax booth
and said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed Him. At a dinner in his
house, Jesus sat among many tax collectors and sinners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Pharisees complained against Jesus dinning and winning with
tax collectors and other sinners because they judged themselves righteous. This
pharisaic attitude continues till today. Many categorise themselves as
righteous under different names.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How can we explain passages like: “Surely there is not a
righteous man on earth who does good and never sins” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eccl 7:20</b>). Saint John also asserted, “If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Jn 1:8</b>). Again, Jesus’ command to continually pray for the
forgiveness of our sins, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 6:12;
Lk 11:4</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus replied them in part, “Those who are well have no need
of a physician, but those who are sick.” By implication, those with pharisaic
mentality do not look for Jesus. It requires great humility to admit one’s
faults. Anyone who cannot admit his/her sins cannot pray, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 18:9-14</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One’s inability to acknowledge his/her sinfulness retains
one’s guilt, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 9:41</b>. Like the
Jews, many who read the bible refused to come to Jesus to have life, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 5:39-40</b>. Jesus does not cast out
anyone who comes to Him, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 6:37</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Matthew followed Jesus when He called him because he
acknowledged he was a sinner. And Paul judged himself the worst of sinners, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Tim 1:15</b>. I confess that I am truly worse
than all and ask God to have mercy on me the worst sinner, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 18:13</b>. What about you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<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%;"> God, be merciful to me a sinner –
Amen (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 18:13</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Saint Matthew the Evangelist – Pray
for us</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Really well?: Feast of Saint Matthew, Ap. Evang. (21st September, 2017).

Homily (Reflection) for the Feast of Saint Matthew, Ap. Evang. (21 st September, 2017) on the Gospel and the Feast Eph 4:1-7.11-...

Utmost Importance: Memorial of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon & Comps., MM., (20th September, 2017).

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in
Ordinary Time (I)</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgephL5w3y9JdkV-GCuXE7jgUvPs5DXOTb-UZ1xZxIlsxWn0fkOBzLK3Zl4cL-_2jUA9wBkvazEuW61alVHsrO-AbAiE8oUunIgHOpeP2CPfEv4BTOfpnyAiBMl4ZB3HJMBTyj6Ph_cTlE/s1600/20.09.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgephL5w3y9JdkV-GCuXE7jgUvPs5DXOTb-UZ1xZxIlsxWn0fkOBzLK3Zl4cL-_2jUA9wBkvazEuW61alVHsrO-AbAiE8oUunIgHOpeP2CPfEv4BTOfpnyAiBMl4ZB3HJMBTyj6Ph_cTlE/s200/20.09.2016.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The evangelization of Korea began during the 17<sup>th</sup>
century through a group of lay persons. A strong vital Christian community
flourished there under lay leadership until missionaries arrived from the Paris
Foreign Mission Society. During the terrible persecutions that occurred between
1839 and 1867, one hundred and three members of the Christian community gave
their lives as martyrs. They include a few bishops and priests, but for the
most part lay people. Outstanding among these witnesses to the faith were the
first Korean priest and pastor, Andrew Kim Taegon, and the lay apostle, Paul
Chong Hasang. Pope Saint John Paul II, during his trip to Korea, canonized
these martyrs on May 6, 1984.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Fourth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><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></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus compares this generation with children sitting in the
marketplace and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you
did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 7:32</b>). This comparison was based on their inability to accept
both John the Baptist and the Messiah irrespective of their life styles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">May be you have been worrying what you will do to please one
person or the other. I want to remind you that we are still in that generation
Jesus spoke about in today’s gospel or even in a worse one. Both Jesus and His
forerunner were not bothered about this but that of Utmost Importance, doing
the will of God. So, listen to God and not to men, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Acts 4:19</b>) learn how to please God and not men, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Thess 4:1</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God will repay every person according his/her deed, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 16:27,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rev 22:12</b>. Saint Andrew Kim Taegon and his companions focused on
pleasing God. Consequently we celebrate them today as saints and martyrs of God.
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to please you alone – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Saint Andrew Kim Taegon &
Companions – Pray for us</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Utmost Importance: Memorial of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon & Comps., MM., (20th September, 2017).

Homily (Reflection) for the Memorial of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon & Comps., MM., (20 th September, 2017) on the Gospel and the Memori...

Wipe the tears: Tuesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (19th September, 2017).

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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Wipe the tears</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UXRzxbUNSpS3jgkIZBL1qkeREPXgykAvMM9W3zpYaOiiRzWn4M9bgwsSEpZ3ZmWdAEzUsPDDpX8NsfizOrtgWdLzVlDalyDUXd6ljrRqq_0ML6iqMHatvLdLeFsfYIkygiMhVehjIm4/s1600/19.09.2017.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="204" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UXRzxbUNSpS3jgkIZBL1qkeREPXgykAvMM9W3zpYaOiiRzWn4M9bgwsSEpZ3ZmWdAEzUsPDDpX8NsfizOrtgWdLzVlDalyDUXd6ljrRqq_0ML6iqMHatvLdLeFsfYIkygiMhVehjIm4/s200/19.09.2017.png" width="165" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As Jesus accompanied by His disciples and a large crowd
approached the gate of Nain, the dead body of the only son of a widow was being
carried away for burial. Jesus said to the widow out of compassion, “Do not
weep.” He came “forward and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And
he said, ‘Young man, I say to you, rise!’ The dead man sat up and began to
speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This miracle turned the widow’s sorrow into great joy and
also made the large crowds to recognise and to glorify God. And just like the
widow of Nain, many out there cry day and night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do we do to wipe the tears of our brothers and sisters?
Jesus may not come down from heaven to wipe their tears. He requires of us to
wipe their tears, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 25:40,45</b>.
A dab can save a soul already at the verge damnation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saint Paul admonishes us to use whatever we are blessed with
in this world to wipe other’s tears, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Tim
6:17-18</b>. We are to deprive ourselves something to put smile on the face of
our brothers and sisters, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Cor 8:9</b>.
Saint James in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">chapter 2 verses 15-16</b>
queries, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one
of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,’ and yet you do
not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rise and wipe the tears of our brothers and sisters. It is our
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<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 25:31-46; Jas 2:14-26.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<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, open my eyes to see the tears
that gush down from the eyes of your children. And give me the courage to wipe
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">May God bless you all+<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>

Wipe the tears: Tuesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (19th September, 2017).

Homily (Reflection) for Tuesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (19 th September, 2017) on the Gospel 1Tim 3:1-13;...

As God’s blessings abound: Monday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (18th September, 2017).

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<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-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">18<sup>th</sup> September,
2017</b>)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 27:2.7-9. (R. v.6);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />

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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: As God’s blessings abound</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtmFAgEvHbjd2N14I8v2RI-Kh5D9D6TEQkAlrAa0iPSNtF1COpbbTkroL4oVJ8UF_UFcTrvgT1y9l2OkQhJykSCBjpkHxGOaNiyOVdF87TvlykbXwCFJbG1xoGWTVgRV6GfjYljQfFsc/s1600/18.09.2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtmFAgEvHbjd2N14I8v2RI-Kh5D9D6TEQkAlrAa0iPSNtF1COpbbTkroL4oVJ8UF_UFcTrvgT1y9l2OkQhJykSCBjpkHxGOaNiyOVdF87TvlykbXwCFJbG1xoGWTVgRV6GfjYljQfFsc/s200/18.09.2017.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A centurion in Capernaum who loves the Jews and built a synagogue
for them had a slave he valued highly, who was ill and close to death. He sent
some Jewish elders to ask Jesus to come and heal his slave. Jesus was already
near to his house, when he sent friends to say to Jesus, “Lord, do not trouble
yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; therefore I did
not presume to come to you. But only speak the word and let my servant be
healed....” Jesus was amazed and said to the crowd following Him, “I tell you,
not even in Israel have I found such faith.” His slave was healed instantly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The gospel describes this centurion as both wealthy and
influential person. Yet he was an epitome of so many virtues. His love was
boundless. And this was far from mere words: he erected a synagogue for the
Jews and sought for the cure of a slave he could afford so many of them. He
taught us that one’s value is far from his/her social status. His humility was heroic.
He considered himself unworthy to meet Jesus. Hence, he sent the Jewish elders to
meet Jesus and also prayed through friends that He should not enter under his
roof. His faith even surprised Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">All we have are gifts, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 4:7</b>. God’s blessings demand much humility lest they turn to their
possessors’ perdition. Nobody takes any out of this world, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 49:16-17</b>. They are to be extended to
more and more people to increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Cor 4:15</b>. We are expected to emulate our
Lord Jesus Christ, who became poor, so that we might become rich, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Cor 8:9</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<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%;">Phil 2:1-11</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>
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<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;">...all things were created through him and for him (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Col 1:16</b>)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<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; 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%;">God open my eyes to see the worth of every
creature</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;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">– Amen</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">May God bless you all+<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>

As God’s blessings abound: Monday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (18th September, 2017).

Homily (Reflection) for Monday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (I) ( 18 th September, 2017 ) on the Gospel 1Tim 2:1-...

...if you do not forgive (Matt 18:35): Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) (17th September, 2017).

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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homily (Reflection) for the Twenty-Fourth
Sunday of the Year (A) (17</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: large;"> September, 2017) on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Ps 102:1-4.9-12.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPFOAyu2dltr-G_-dkJHwAdA6jXFi_ipTcvhk0yqD6cJO_dUPOnlnzkYLT7Qktzu8guee-3Yf5AK1zxqFT8Kn7rnte8nJp6d3ohzfC9e5Rxkw8n4Nk6F8Xt7zxO5pbdOboZa5d6AxLYV0/s1600/17.09.2017.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="219" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPFOAyu2dltr-G_-dkJHwAdA6jXFi_ipTcvhk0yqD6cJO_dUPOnlnzkYLT7Qktzu8guee-3Yf5AK1zxqFT8Kn7rnte8nJp6d3ohzfC9e5Rxkw8n4Nk6F8Xt7zxO5pbdOboZa5d6AxLYV0/s200/17.09.2017.png" width="190" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">There is a story
of the grandmother who told the secret of her long and happy marriage. “On my
wedding day, I decided to make a list of ten of my husband’s faults which, for
the sake of the marriage, I would overlook.” A guest asked the woman what some
of the faults she had chosen to overlook were. The grandmother replied, “To
tell you the truth, I never did get around to making that list. But whenever my
husband did something that made me hooping mad, I would say to myself, ‘Lucky
for him that’s one of the ten.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/fb/YEAR%20A%202016-2017/Ordinary%20Time%20of%20the%20Year%20A/Twenty-Fourth%20Sunday%20of%20the%20Year%20(A)%20(2017)).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><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></span></span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">...if you do not forgive </b>(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 18:35</b>).<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Beyond three times prescribed by
the Jewish law, Peter asked Jesus in today’s gospel whether we are required to
forgive others only seven times. However Jesus replied, “Not seven times, but,
I tell you, seventy-seven times” (seventy times seven). To drive the message
home, He gave a parable of the unforgiving servant in which a king forgave his
slave who could not repay ten thousand talents he owed him because he pleaded
not even for the cancellation of the debt but just for time. The same slave as
he was leaving the king’s presence met a fellow slave who owed him a hundred
denarii. He seized him by the throat and demanded his money. His fellow slave
pleaded with him, “Have patience with me, and I will pay you” (v. 29) but he
refused and threw him into prison. Note that his fellow slave pleaded in the
same words he pleaded with the king, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt
18:26</b>. When the news reached the king, he summoned the slave and said to
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">You wicked slave! I forgave you all
that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your
fellow slave, as I had mercy on you? And in anger his lord handed him over to
be tortured until he would pay his entire debt (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 18:32-34</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">To better understand what the wicked slave lost because he
could not forgive, let us compare the two debts. A denarius was the usual day’s
wage for a labourer and a talent worth more than fifteen years’ wages of a
labourer. It is palpable that the two cannot be compared and the possibility of
the wicked slave repaying can only be imagined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">We often consider what others did against us as unbearable.
However, we rarely think of what we do ourselves. The Psalmist wrote, “...he is
our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 95:7</b>). In the words of Saint Paul,
“...whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rom 14:8</b>). Again, “...we are the temple of the living God” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Cor 6:16</b>). In sum, we are not our own,
cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 6:19</b>. Therefore, whatever
wrong one does even those against oneself is done against God. Just imagine the
magnitude. Like the wicked servant, nobody can pay back what he/she owes God,
cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 49:7-8</b>. Hence, “Happy are
those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 32:1</b>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">We ought to forgive others. It
saves us from a lot of troubles. That is the assurance of God’s mercy without
which we are doomed, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 6:12.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">14-15; Lk 11:4</b>. Hence Jesus warns each
and every one of us, “So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you,
if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 18:35</b>). Again, “whenever you stand
praying, forgive, if you have anything against any one; so that your Father
also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mk 11:25</b>) lest our prayers will become abomination in the sight of
God, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 15:8-9. 21:27</b>. Finally,
it is what one gives that awaits him or her, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 6:37; Matt 7:2; Mk 4:24</b>.</span></div>
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...if you do not forgive (Matt 18:35): Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) (17th September, 2017).

Homily (Reflection) for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) (17 th September, 2017) on the Gospel Sir 27:30–28:7; Ps 102:1-4.9...

A must do: Memorial of Saint Cornelius, Pp, and Saint Cyprian, B, Mm., (16th September, 2017).

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saturday of the Twenty-Third Week in
Ordinary Time (I)</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0vq4AB3tMVCMrYrRoxu59dgwN1GQkfJXeDFJguVyLXU6CXDuHPHyFde3ibwrAV0U0aFh8fTgDlPIpv7-6gBQr2rlXfYzVRKOU8ETv-0EnpX7otyXW0Oh8BbTkYgiRnyigkQnUXl5_Ts/s1600/16.09.2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0vq4AB3tMVCMrYrRoxu59dgwN1GQkfJXeDFJguVyLXU6CXDuHPHyFde3ibwrAV0U0aFh8fTgDlPIpv7-6gBQr2rlXfYzVRKOU8ETv-0EnpX7otyXW0Oh8BbTkYgiRnyigkQnUXl5_Ts/s1600/16.09.2016.png" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pope Saint Cornelius (251-253) battled among other
problems reconciling apostates and schism. Contrary to those who said that they
should not be forgiven and those with the opinion that they should be forgiven
but without heavy penance, Cornelius decreed that they must be welcomed back
and insisted that they perform adequate penance. He was exiled to Civitavecchia
where he died a martyr probably of hardships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saint Cyprian of Carthage was born to wealthy pagans
around the year 190. He was converted at the age of 56, ordained a priest a
year later, and made bishop two years after. Cyprian was a close friend of Pope
Cornelius. He supported him both against the anti-pope Novatian and in his
views concerning the re-admittance of apostates into the Church. He was martyred
during the persecutions of Emperor Valerian on September 14, 258.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Third%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><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></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tree determines the fruit. What comes out of one’s mouth defines
the person. Jesus questions, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do
what I tell you?” He likens anyone who hears His words and acts on them to one
who laid the foundation of his/her house on the rock. Arising of the flood and
bursting of the river do not shake it. One who does not act on His words is
like someone who builds a house without a foundation. And “When the river burst
against it, immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of that house.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The word of God is preached today through various means that
were not available during the time of historical Jesus. Yet putting it into
practise is more challenging today than ever. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We read from Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans, “...it is not
the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law
who will be justified” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rom 2:13</b>). Saint
James also writes, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jas 1:22</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some fan themselves that God will understand their inability to
do some of His words because of the ones they do. It is important to remind
ourselves that God requires us to conform fully; “...whoever keeps the whole
law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jas 2:10</b>). Saint Cornelius and Saint
Cyprian we celebrate today are good examples. They followed the word fully. Where
do you build – on the ground without a foundation or on a foundation laid on the
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word fully into action for we cannot achieve it on our own – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A must do: Memorial of Saint Cornelius, Pp, and Saint Cyprian, B, Mm., (16th September, 2017).

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYJRLil54bTaPsJAm22MAn4yDF6UvhAJ8x9awHsWt4R7p2K4WpBVf41nWoP8Y_0-3V2frMx35G5X5o8-Oc8D0fbyQljSpmj6r4eQhRmXrha3SEwHNBIwCLDPtiSI3r5dRSxvS2Xe8VUA/s1600/15.09.2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYJRLil54bTaPsJAm22MAn4yDF6UvhAJ8x9awHsWt4R7p2K4WpBVf41nWoP8Y_0-3V2frMx35G5X5o8-Oc8D0fbyQljSpmj6r4eQhRmXrha3SEwHNBIwCLDPtiSI3r5dRSxvS2Xe8VUA/s1600/15.09.2017.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We commemorate Mary’s sharing in the sufferings of her
only son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is viewed as the fulfilment of the prophesy
of Blessed Simeon, “a sword will pierce your own soul too” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 2:35</b>). Devotion to Our Lady of
Sorrows became very popular in the monastic Cistercian and mendicant Servite
orders in the 13th century. This memorial was first celebrated by the Servites.
In 1814, Pope Pius VII extended it to the universal church. Pope Saint Pius X
moved it to September 15 in 1913. The Servites also gave us the Chaplet of Our
Lady of Sorrows encouraging meditation on seven events in the life of Mary.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20I/Ordinary%20Time%20(I)/Twenty-Third%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(I).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><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></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Can’t miss now</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In today’s gospel (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn
19:25-27</b>), while Jesus was hanging on the cross, the disciple whom He loved
was standing beside His mother. Jesus said to His mother, “Woman, here is your
son.” And to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” The gospel further reads,
“And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Christ prayed that all His disciples may perfectly be one, cf.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 17:11. 21-23</b>. However, enmity
among His disciples keeps skyrocketing without a just cause. Each group claims
to be God’s chosen and that He hears no other voice but theirs. Some see and
treat others as pagans. As a result of the confusion, none sees anything good
in whatever others do. And this affects a lot of things with particular
reference to the honour due to the mother of Jesus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary stood with Jesus from His conception to His death on the
cross. The bible attests to this. She carried Him for nine months in her womb,
cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:31.2:3-7</b>. Mary and Saint
Joseph presented Him in the temple, cf. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 2:33-35</b>. When He remained in
Jerusalem, they searched for Him for three days, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 2:41-46</b>. At her request, Jesus performed His first miracle when His
time had not reached, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 2:1-11</b>.
In today’s gospel, she was with Him at the climax of His suffering. She did not
even retire after His death, resurrection, and ascension. She stayed and prayed
with His disciples, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Acts 1:14</b>. We
limit ourselves to these.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus promised that whoever endures to the end will be saved,
cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 10:22. 24:13; Mk 13:13</b>. Again,
that He will give to those who stood by Him a kingdom, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 22:28-30</b>. Mary was never found wanting in any of the criteria
Jesus use to reward His disciples. Therefore, since she stood so faithfully, she
can’t miss now. Whoever thinks that she is given too much ought to know that it
is God himself who raised her up, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk
1:28,30-33, 41-45,48-49</b>. And she gave herself entirely, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:38</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As we struggle to have Jesus as our personal Lord and Saviour,
it is important also to consider the place of Mary in our lives. Immediately
Jesus gave John to her, the gospel reads, “And from that hour the disciple took
her into his own home”. Where do you keep Jesus’ mother? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<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;">: Lk 2:22-51.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<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;"> Mary shared in Jesus’ suffering</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>
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<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, open our hearts to understand
how much your mother shared in your suffering – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Our Lady of Sorrows – Pray for us</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><a href="https://www.osv.com/Magazines/TheCatholicAnswer/ChurchHistory/Article/TabId/802/ArtMID/13655/ArticleID/11007/The-Cross-Triumphant.aspx"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #2e7061; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.osv.com/Magazines/TheCatholicAnswer/ChurchHistory/Article/TabId/802/ArtMID/13655/ArticleID/11007/The-Cross-Triumphant.aspx</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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