The Catholic Calendar for Saturday, November 3, 2001
The Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
St. Martin de Porres
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Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Romans 11:1-2,11-12,25-29
Psalm 94:12-15,17-18
Luke 14:1,7-11
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A Reflection on Today's Scripture:
Everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled,
and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. - Luke 14:11
In today's Gospel, Jesus makes it clear that pride is a sinful,
wrongful condition of the soul, the heart. How could we possibly
claim ownership for any particular thing, any good, any achievement?
All good comes from God. It is only by God's beneficence, by his
desire to love us, that we might experience or possess something we
call "good". Without God's undeserved grace, we would exist in the
fallen state of Adam.
It may be disheartening to see ourselves and others around us fall
from grace. We may be assailed by these and many other worldly
calamities. However, we must live as the people to whom Jesus gave
his precious blood: resolute and determined to avail ourselves of
God's grace, to avoid the occasions of sin, to refrain from sinful
submission to evil.
How can we, weak as we know we are, possibly become holy?
Striving for holiness requires habitual desire for holiness,
receiving God's grace through the Sacraments, and habitually placing
ourselves in the presence of Jesus. We strive to learn more and more
about the teachings of Christ, studying Scripture, the Catechism, the
Doctors and other inspired writers of the Church. We desire to be
prayerful people, praying daily with one another -- spouses,
relatives, neighbors -- and at Mass as often as possible. We
especially joy in prayerful reading from the Book of Psalms daily.
Through these paths we will gradually become transformed from our
prideful fallen state to that of joyful humility.
- Joachim, ocds
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