1ST READING
Israel
refused to obey the Word of the Lord countless times. Israel must have
driven the prophets to near despair with its disobedience. Have we not
learned from Israel’s struggles and sufferings? We continue to disobey
the Lord and follow our own will rather than the will of God. Insanity
is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different
result. This is precisely what we sinners do.
Jeremiah 7:23-28
23 Thus
says the Lord: This is what I commanded my people: Listen to my voice;
then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways
that I command you, so that you may prosper. 24 But
they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed. They walked in the hardness of
their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me. 25 From
the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day, I
have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets. 26 Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their fathers. 27 When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you either; when you call to them, they will not answer you. 28 Say
to them: This is the nation that does not listen to the voice of the
Lord, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the
word itself is banished from their speech.
P S A L M
Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
R: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
1 Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalm to him. (R) 6 Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us. 7 For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides. (R)
Oh, that today you would hear his voice: 8 “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, 9 where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.” (R)
GOSPEL
There
are demons that we have to overcome in our lives. The demons of our
memory and past experiences come back to haunt us and hinder us in
following Jesus. No matter how hard or painful it might be, we have to
dredge up the events of the past and talk about them to allow God’s
healing grace to transform them. Sometimes it is the only way we can be
freed from our habitual sins.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, for I am gracious and merciful.
Luke 11:14-23
14 Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. 15 Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” 16 Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. 17 But he knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will
fall against house. 18 And
if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For
you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. 19 If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 20 But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe. 22 But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils. 23 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”
think: We have to dredge up the events of the past and talk about them to allow God’s healing grace to transform them.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Genesis 13-15
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