1ST READING
There
will always be challenges for anyone who seeks to be a disciple of
Jesus. Powers and dominions work against the spread of the Gospel.
Sometimes they are more prominent than at other times. I tend to believe
that they are on the rise at the moment, as the stakes regarding faith
are high in our present world. There is flux in the Islamic world as
development comes to many of the countries of the Middle East and
Africa; there is decline in the West as consumerism and materialism
attempt to reign supreme. Asia and Latin America are catching up with
the West.
2 John 4-9
4 [Chosen Lady:] I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth just as we were commanded by the Father. 5 But now, Lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another. 6 For
this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the
commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should
walk. 7 Many
deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge
Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh; such is the deceitful one and the
antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves that you do not lose what we worked for but may receive a full recompense. 9 Anyone
who is so “progressive” as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ
does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and
the Son.
P S A L M
Psalm 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
R: Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!
1 Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. (R) 2 Blessed are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart. (R) 10 With all my heart I seek you; let me not stray from your commands. (R) 11 Within my heart I treasure your promise, that
I may not sin against you. (R) 17 Be good to your servant, that I may live and keep your words. (R) 18 Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law. (R)
GOSPEL
Jesus
reminds the people that when it comes to discipleship there is no room
for complacency. A true disciple is always attentive to the call of the
Spirit and does not need to have years of prior notice to prepare for an
event. He trusts that whatever God calls him to do will be possible at a
moment’s notice because he knows what it means to have placed his trust
in the graces of the Holy Spirit.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.
Luke 17:26-37
26 Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; 27 they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 29
on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. 30 So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, someone who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise one in the field must not return to what was left behind. 32 Remember the wife of Lot. 33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. 34 I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. 35 And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.” 36 37 They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”
think: There will always be challenges for anyone who seeks to be a disciple of Jesus.
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