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The Catholic Calendar for Sunday, September 1, 2002 The Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word: Jeremiah 20:7-9 Psalm 63:2-6,8-9 Romans 12:1-2 Matthew 16:21-27 A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture: Bammm!! Dealing with reality . . . . Today's scriptures run the gamut from the whiny Jeremiah the prophet, to the mellowy psalmist, to the ever-admonishing Paul, to the fumbling apostles, and finally to the rock-solid teacher, the Messiah. Certainly God could have performed His merciful act of redemption by "simply" brushing away 1/3 of the stars in heaven, taking with them all evil and leaving the righteous to joyously celebrate forever and forever in His majestic presence. But alas, God has shown us that He isn't like that. He had to allow the whiner, the dreamer, the admonisher and even the fumbler to have their day. He had to reveal His plan, His righteousness, His glory, His mercy and His justice. For all of this plan to work according to His will, Jesus the Messiah, the Man-God, had to be born, live as a little child and a young man, and to teach the plan of God to the simple, receptive hearts of the disciples - and to us. And then, Bammm! He had to die that ignominious death so that we would know just how much each of our sins offend Him. >From the moment of Jesus' ascension into heaven, the faithful must have wondered: will He be back in a few minutes? A few hours? Tomorrow? Next week? Next month? Next....? Why has it taken so long for our Lord and Savior to return? We, who believe, hold that He will return when the plan of God is fully played out according to God's will. Until that happens, our task, then, is to avail ourselves of God's sanctifying grace, to be purified and brought close to Him every moment of every day. - Joachim, ocds YOU CAN HELP to evangelize the Word of God! Please recommend our website to your friends and Catholic webmasters at: http://www.borg.com/~joachim/DailyMeds.html (case sensitive) Also, the meditations are now in weblog form at http://dailymed.blogspot.com/ ARCHIVED Meditations: http://www.abcsoffaith.com/quiet/quietplace.html and at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] For ALL communications, including subscribe/unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (c)1986-2002 The Way, The Truth, The Life. Permission granted to make reprints of the meditations or to post on any web page, except for profit. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms (c)1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copy-right owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.Text from the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/index.htm Lives of the Saints: http://www.christdesert.org/public_texts/martyrology/ |
Title: Meditation: Sunday, September 1, 2002
