Consecrated to Mary: Solemnity of Our Lady, Queen and Patroness of Nigeria (1st October, 2016).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Homily (Reflection) for the Solemnity of Our Lady, Queen and Patroness of Nigeria (1^st October, 2016) on the Gospel and the Solemnity<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 50%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"></span></b> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Is 11:1-10;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 72:1-2.7-8.12-13.17. (R. v. 7);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Eph 2:13-22;<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Matt 2:13-15.19-23</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXU5HEmRc3uzMMomF69cnb_bpFmgiVKRu9M8x5GwDQ4jQxD5cxoPJWBY2mhO_Vdpt0qRYG5QjSlaCU3t7CHhL3m9joAI2uCYhyphenhyphendIhfj5nBJ-tiOkklWW4kZBm48osKcPSQar4IjuOnOlk/s1600/01.10.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXU5HEmRc3uzMMomF69cnb_bpFmgiVKRu9M8x5GwDQ4jQxD5cxoPJWBY2mhO_Vdpt0qRYG5QjSlaCU3t7CHhL3m9joAI2uCYhyphenhyphendIhfj5nBJ-tiOkklWW4kZBm48osKcPSQar4IjuOnOlk/s1600/01.10.2016.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today, the Universal Church celebrates the Memorial of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, but in Nigeria, this memorial is celebrated on 3^rd October. The Church in Nigeria celebrates today the Solemnity of Our Lady, Queen and Patroness of Nigeria in commemoration of the consecration of Nigeria to the Blessed Virgin Mary soon after the Independence in 1960. Pope Saint John Paul II led the Church in Nigeria in the consecration to Mary during his visit to Nigeria in 1982. Today also is Nigeria’s independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Consecrated to Mary</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In today’s gospel, after the wise men had left, an angel of the Lord said to Joseph, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” He did exactly as the angel instructed him and they remained there until the death of Herod. Then the angel of the Lord appeared again and told him to take the child and his mother back to the land of Israel. The fear of Archelaus, Herod’s son who took over from his father coupled with the warning he received made them to settle at Nazareth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saint Joseph being the husband of Mary and foster father of Jesus Christ was among other things charged with the responsibility of protecting the duo. Hence, in obedience to the angel, he took them to Egypt to save them from Herod’s fierce anger. This in a loosely sense portrays the importance of being consecrated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On 14^th February 1982, in Kaduna, Nigeria, while leading in the consecration, The Holy Father prayed in part, “O Mother of all individuals and peoples...I desire to consecrate and entrust to you, Mother of the Church, in a special way, the Church in the land of Nigeria....”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20II/Ordinary%20Time%20(II)/Twenty-Sixth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(II).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><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><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> By this consecration, we pledged to be obedient to Mary. Certainly these words jangle in some ears. But everything Mary wants from all her children is simple: “Do whatever he tells you” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 2:5</b>). It is important to remind ourselves that everyone who does God’s will is a child of Mary, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rev 12:17</b>. And the love she has for all her children is unparallel, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 2:3</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our country Nigeria is bedevilled by various kinds of evils right from her independence. They are far deeper than all the medicines already applied, and the ones being applied today. Hence, no positive result so far. Often, those who said that they look for others to cure are in worse condition than the ones they said that they are curing or want to cure. We need to run into the maternal protection of Our Lady, Queen and Patroness of Nigeria now more than ever. The evils that bedevilled this country really need divine intervention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;">: Jn 2:1-11.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;"> Let’s take refuge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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, we pray through the powerful intercession of our mother to look kindly upon Nigeria that is bedevilled by so many evils – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Our Lady, Queen and Patroness of Nigeria – Pray for us</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; 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Consecrated to Mary: Solemnity of Our Lady, Queen and Patroness of Nigeria (1st October, 2016).

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God’s goodness: Memorial of Saint Jerome, P.D. (30th September, 2016).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Homily (Reflection) for the Memorial of Saint Jerome, P.D. (30^th September, 2016) on the Gospel and the Memorial</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 50%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"></span></b> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Job 38:1.12-21;40:3-5;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 138:1-3.7-10.13-14. (R. v.24);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 10:13-16</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHldq0RZRJdY96du4UVehqPTx44R3zUUt_v-i52V0giEoj9rceNhw1hCpFPEkx72mtf75ye1HlaQMePjPGUwBzhTo_wljVU5_qwROesTWKhvPB8nx7WeBsMTl5XjujSZ9T5bJ0Apu3pYg/s1600/30.09.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHldq0RZRJdY96du4UVehqPTx44R3zUUt_v-i52V0giEoj9rceNhw1hCpFPEkx72mtf75ye1HlaQMePjPGUwBzhTo_wljVU5_qwROesTWKhvPB8nx7WeBsMTl5XjujSZ9T5bJ0Apu3pYg/s1600/30.09.2016.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saint Jerome (c.  347 – 30^th September 420) was a presbyter, confessor, theologian and historian. He was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia. Jerome is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate), and his commentaries on the Gospels. He was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centres such as Rome. In many cases, he focused his attention to the lives of women and identified how a woman devoted to Jesus should live her life. He is recognised as a Saint and Doctor of the Church by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church, and the Anglican Communion.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20II/Ordinary%20Time%20(II)/Twenty-Sixth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(II).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><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><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: God’s goodness</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus used very strong words against Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum because they did not repent after miracles performed in them. He warned, “But at the judgement it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for” Chorazin, and Bethsaida. Again, that Capernaum “will be brought down to Hades.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is easier for us to condemn these cities for their unrepentant spirit. However, the Psalm reads, “the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 100:5</b>). Unequivocally, the Psalmist testified that God has blessed us, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 67:6, 7</b>. Saint Paul also testified that God “has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing...” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eph 1:3</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Repentance is not something abstract. It can be seen and felt. Hence, John the Baptist said to the crowds, “Bear fruits that befit repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 3:8</b>). And for Saint James, faith apart from works is dead, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jas 2:17</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have seen miracles of which our life is the chief. But just like the people of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, many have not repented. Saint Jerome did not only respond to God’s goodness but most importantly bore fruits that we still enjoy today. We must remember always that God’s goodness demands positive response from us, the recipients.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;">: Ps 67:1-7; Eph 1:3-14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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%;">Responding to His goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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, help us live lives of testimony to your goodness – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Saint Jerome – Pray for us</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; 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God’s goodness: Memorial of Saint Jerome, P.D. (30th September, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for the Memorial of Saint Jerome, P.D. (30 th September, 2016) on the Gospel and the Memorial   Job 38:1.12-21...

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Angels of God: Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels (29th September, 2016).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Homily (Reflection) for the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels (29^th September, 2016) on the Gospel and the Feast<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 50%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></span></b></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dan 7:9-10.13-14 or Rev 12:7-12;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ps 137:1-5. (R. v.1);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jn 1:47-51</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0SmPU1qZUPkbO6tpXIN338DzmoNh59veGLd2vfI1CglzJbnmerq78yYwO8rzhtgGh45mV9hOrYP2KcemzTz3Eu4Be1kNSxkAoYO96gDDYq338N_ONezDJ528IUPXgasndslJGz1fCBG0/s1600/29.09.2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0SmPU1qZUPkbO6tpXIN338DzmoNh59veGLd2vfI1CglzJbnmerq78yYwO8rzhtgGh45mV9hOrYP2KcemzTz3Eu4Be1kNSxkAoYO96gDDYq338N_ONezDJ528IUPXgasndslJGz1fCBG0/s1600/29.09.2016.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Sacred Scriptures revealed the proper names of only three Angels: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. The title “Archangel” is given only to Saint Michael, but the sacred tradition and the liturgy of the Church attribute the same title to Saint Gabriel and Saint Raphael. These are spoken of as Archangels simply because they were entrusted with extraordinary missions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Michael</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> means “Who is as God?” His name is a battle cry; both shield and weapon in the struggle, and an eternal trophy of victory. The name of Archangel Michael first appeared in the prophet Daniel, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dan 10:13</b>. He also appeared in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dan 10:21. 12:1; Jude 1:9, and Rev 12:7</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The name <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gabriel</b> means “Man of God” or “Strength of God”. Gabriel announced the coming of Saint John the Baptist, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:11-19</b>. He also announced to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would conceive of the Holy Spirit, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:26-37</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Raphael</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> means “God heals,” or the “Divine healer.” In the book of Tobit chapters 5 through 12, Raphael was of immense help especially to Tobit, Tobias, and Sarah. He acted in human form, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tob 5:5-14; Heb 13:2</b>.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20II/Ordinary%20Time%20(II)/Twenty-Sixth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(II).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Angels of God</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In today’s gospel, when Jesus described Nathaniel as “an Israelite in whom there is no deceit,” he queried, “Where did you get to know me?” Jesus told him that He saw him under the fig tree before Philip called him. Nathaniel replied, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” And Jesus said to him, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt 0.7in; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.... Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we celebrate the Archangels, it is important to understand the name <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">angel</b> in a broader sense. One can be certain that the name refers to a spirit who is God’s servant in heaven if it is qualified or based on the circumstances, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gen 28:12. 32:1; Ps 91:11; Lk 12:8</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We often think of angels only as spirits who are God’s servants in heaven. However, the bible tells us that it refers to much more. The book of Revelation reveals that the devil has his own angels, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rev 12:7</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jesus said that those who are considered worthy of a place in heave are like angels and are children of God, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 20:35-36</b>. Angels of God are spirits in the divine service, sent to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heb 1:14</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Angels of God are our friends and our companions on our journey. We can call on them for assistance. The Psalmist wrote, “He has given his angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 91:11</b>). And more importantly, we are to be angels to others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: Ps 91:1-16.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;"> You are an angel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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, as we celebrate your archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, help us to be true servants of yours – Amen.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><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;"><strong>Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels - Pray for us.</strong></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">You are free to share this reflection with others if you consider it worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">For more homilies (reflections):<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Visit our website: </span></span></b><a href="http://www.thepulpitonline.com/"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2e7061; 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Angels of God: Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels (29th September, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels (29 th September, 2016) on the Gospel and the Feast...

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Today’s Quotes on Holiness and Strong Faith.

<br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Today’s Quotes on Holiness and Strong Faith: Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (28^th September, 2016)</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_LajnqWK11B4BpZlzS7_Ke5b90UmthFNjTMzlwcSX1-CmZ7sSWZRpQVOyOVGroZV6-1o0AYCbqyOOwJs4zKaZWaLtsvolKK4BcXIXc_BidJ5o_qqTj4ENJa4j4SBu23vUtbW3HMHBWXQ/s1600/Quotes%252C+28.09.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_LajnqWK11B4BpZlzS7_Ke5b90UmthFNjTMzlwcSX1-CmZ7sSWZRpQVOyOVGroZV6-1o0AYCbqyOOwJs4zKaZWaLtsvolKK4BcXIXc_BidJ5o_qqTj4ENJa4j4SBu23vUtbW3HMHBWXQ/s1600/Quotes%252C+28.09.2016.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We must have a real determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God</b>.”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></span><br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">– Saint Teresa of Calcutta.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Strong faith in the Saviour is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives—even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.</b>”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">– David A. Bednar.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>

Today’s Quotes on Holiness and Strong Faith.

Today’s Quotes on Holiness and Strong Faith: Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (28 th September, 2016) .   ...

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Neither mine nor yours: Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (28th September, 2016).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Homily (Reflection) for Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (28^th September, 2016) on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saint Wenceslaus, M., Saints Lawrence Ruiz & Comps, Mm., Opt Mem</b>)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Job 9:1-12.14-16;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 87:10-15. (R. v. 3);<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 9:57-62</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Neither mine nor yours</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBkMOIUysXX-6DCk61dFWlkt0haVjDtUohzoh3rXunkLvaRzYbBf_1ZKAEQpwCyehhYvbLxpth_yAKGB6o5ukOWKz-0S2HPcpSE7RAUp4w079qEeZeODCJ6uB8iGoET40Xr1HSWCjZiCA/s1600/28.09.2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBkMOIUysXX-6DCk61dFWlkt0haVjDtUohzoh3rXunkLvaRzYbBf_1ZKAEQpwCyehhYvbLxpth_yAKGB6o5ukOWKz-0S2HPcpSE7RAUp4w079qEeZeODCJ6uB8iGoET40Xr1HSWCjZiCA/s1600/28.09.2016.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today’s gospel presented to us three categories of would-be disciples of Jesus. Jesus replied the first who opted to follow Him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Yet Jesus said to another, “Follow me.” Despite his excuse, He insisted, “...go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” And to the third who wanted to bid farewell to those at his home first, Jesus said, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every owner of property ought to have intention for his/her property. And it is the intention of the owner that counts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Psalmist writes, “Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 100:3; cf. Eph 2:10</b>). Hence Saint Paul tells us that we are God’s property, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 6:19</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is God’s intention therefore that counts in our lives and in whatever we do even when one thinks he/she has the best of intentions, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Sam 7:5-7</b>. In today’s gospel, Jesus literally turned down the intention of the person who volunteered to follow Him. The one who thought it wise to bury his father first was charged to spread the gospel instead. And the last who wanted to say goodbye to those he was to leave behind was judged unfit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In our lives and in everything we do, it is neither my will nor yours that counts. We ought to seek the will of God in everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;">: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">2Sam 7:1-14</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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;"> With God are enduring wealth and prosperity, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 8:18</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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, direct our hearts to follow your will always – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are free to share this reflection with others if you consider it worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; 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Neither mine nor yours: Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (28th September, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (28 th September, 2016) on the Gospel ( Saint Wence...

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Today’s Quotes on Charity and Humility: Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27th September, 2016).

<br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Today’s Quotes on Charity and Humility: Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27^th September, 2016)</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XNSRTSk2rKDCPwz32GQMJNgBZ3wl8FPQqhaAqsP8v0XLEiP4QKI39HdDfF2V_SWfkdvjDLNAbC3hDCzZVTsgVyweZJdrDlaPtuQfSGsQIgkMqDl2yRqxHHkhdAvQWGdArCE_i-gQDLE/s1600/Quotes%252C+27.09.2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XNSRTSk2rKDCPwz32GQMJNgBZ3wl8FPQqhaAqsP8v0XLEiP4QKI39HdDfF2V_SWfkdvjDLNAbC3hDCzZVTsgVyweZJdrDlaPtuQfSGsQIgkMqDl2yRqxHHkhdAvQWGdArCE_i-gQDLE/s1600/Quotes%252C+27.09.2016.png" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another</b>.”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">– Saint Vincent de Paul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.</b>”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">– Saint Vincent de Paul.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>

Today’s Quotes on Charity and Humility: Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27th September, 2016).

Today’s Quotes on Charity and Humility: Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27 th September, 2016) .   “ Charity is the cement...

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Not fire for fire: Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27th September, 2016).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Homily (Reflection) for the Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27^th September, 2016) on the Gospel and the Memorial<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 50%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></span></b></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Job 3:1-3.11-17.20-23;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ps 87:2-8. (R. v.3);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 9:51-56</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTk9UWPtCzFlOfdBZxtIpU_CZe1WtNMgjP2cuZim9d2a-9ikDGjHpwj-7DDp_KVldxYtM9vXtkKr-0luKvcqHyL_zOCEysT8BUW64UREHmU20P5ONdZg535JU3PG-lfUSV7xWBtADeqk/s1600/27.09.2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTk9UWPtCzFlOfdBZxtIpU_CZe1WtNMgjP2cuZim9d2a-9ikDGjHpwj-7DDp_KVldxYtM9vXtkKr-0luKvcqHyL_zOCEysT8BUW64UREHmU20P5ONdZg535JU3PG-lfUSV7xWBtADeqk/s1600/27.09.2016.png" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Saint Vincent de Paul was born to a poor peasant family in Pouy on 24^th April, 1581. He was hired as a tutor based on his brilliant performance in his studies. His earnings helped him in the study of theology at the University of Toulose. He was ordained in 1600 and remained in Toulose for a time. In 1605, he was captured and sold into slavery. He escaped after two years and returned to France. While studying in Rome, he was a chaplain to the Count of Goigny and also in charge of distributing money to the deserving poor. He spent his life preaching missions to and providing relief to the poor and also established hospitals for them. Later, he extended his ministry to convicts. He founded the Ladies of Charity, and the Congregation of Priests of the Mission (Vincentians) to help him carry on the ministry. Saint Vincent helped in the reformation of the clergy and the seminary formation. He died in Paris on September 27, 1660. Pope Benedict XIII beatified him on August 13, 1729 and was canonized by Pope Leo XIII on June 16, 1737. He is the patron of charities; horses; hospitals; leprosy; lost articles; Madagascar; prisoners; Richmond, Virginia; spiritual help; Saint Vincent de Paul Societies; Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory; Vincentian Service Corps; volunteers.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20II/Ordinary%20Time%20(II)/Twenty-Sixth%20Week%20in%20Ordinary%20Time%20(II).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Not fire for fire</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">An unnamed Samaritan town refused to receive Jesus in today’s gospel because He was going to Jerusalem. James and John wanted to call down fire from heaven to consume them but Jesus rebuked them. They rather went on to another village. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The sons of thunder, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mk 3:17</b>) wanted to match the people power for power. However, it negates the will of the Master. His command is clear, “...whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 20:26-27; cf. Mk 10:43-44</b>). Hence, He did not approve of their proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jesus never promised us a world where people will be praising His disciples, “In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 16:33</b>). Again, “...they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 24:9</b>;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Matt 10:18, 22</b>). Yet we are required to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, and to shine as lights in the world, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 10:16</b>; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil 2:15</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Saint Vincent de Paul met with different challenges ranging from poverty, enslavement, and so on. He followed the example of Jesus before all of them. We are expected to do just the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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 20:20-28.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;"> Do not fight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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, grant us a heart that can endure every kind of hardship – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Saint Vincent de Paul – Pray for us</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; 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Not fire for fire: Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27th September, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for the Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, P., (27 th September, 2016) on the Gospel and the Memorial   Job 3:1...

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Today’s Quotes on God’s faithfulness, and Prayer: Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)

<br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Today’s Quotes on God’s faithfulness, and Prayer: Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (26^th September, 2016)</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOjGpC4c_SiHWJkS5SmvmkJCFZyIaPDJQOcHzcY2fC-1UZl1RMkuYao9afhnhwCqSNjxTTug8YAKp8JhyphenhyphenYvn_DpIJvDbuN5xBPXlExztFBFZIb4Daxt3Vvv3kSqWJUoS0zuIPT9Rr_wM/s1600/26.09.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOjGpC4c_SiHWJkS5SmvmkJCFZyIaPDJQOcHzcY2fC-1UZl1RMkuYao9afhnhwCqSNjxTTug8YAKp8JhyphenhyphenYvn_DpIJvDbuN5xBPXlExztFBFZIb4Daxt3Vvv3kSqWJUoS0zuIPT9Rr_wM/s1600/26.09.2016.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us. . . He is our most sincere and faithful friend even when we sadden him with our bad behaviour</b>.”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">– Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.</b>”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">– Saint John Chrysostom.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>

Today’s Quotes on God’s faithfulness, and Prayer: Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Today’s Quotes on God’s faithfulness, and Prayer: Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (26 th September, 2016) .   ...

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Inclusive discipleship: Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (26th September, 2016).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Homily (Reflection) for Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (26^th September, 2016) on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saints Cosmas and Damian, Mm., Opt Mem</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 50%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b><br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Job 1:6-22;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 16:1-3.6-7. (R. v.6); <o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lk 9:46-50.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Inclusive discipleship</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus reacted to His disciples’ argument about who was the greatest among them by putting a little child beside Him and said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me; for the least among all of you is the greatest.” John reported how they tried to stop an exorcist who was not one of them from using Jesus’ name. But Jesus replied, “Do not stop him; for whoever is not against you is for you.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFpXTNLB0mE0gLAPJjWJAGuaiyBnEcqXYG8aThKheWqxL9gky3pqP6HQxmhkFsacfAD_T2GtJPaVIScx0IkKgc5jNxbSB0u0yY_X-sq2SHFYAsCQB7H0mlqGlVGQ4ZFSgoKcjSqd4P_g/s1600/26.09.2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFpXTNLB0mE0gLAPJjWJAGuaiyBnEcqXYG8aThKheWqxL9gky3pqP6HQxmhkFsacfAD_T2GtJPaVIScx0IkKgc5jNxbSB0u0yY_X-sq2SHFYAsCQB7H0mlqGlVGQ4ZFSgoKcjSqd4P_g/s1600/26.09.2016.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We sometimes behave as if we have exclusive right over Jesus just as the disciples did in today’s gospel. However, we have one God, one Father and one Saviour, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mal 2:10,15; 1Cor 8:6; Eph 4:6; Titus 1:4</b>. Nobody is too bad for repentance. Jesus made us understand that God is so much after the people we have written off, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 9:10-13</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus “is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Jn 2:2</b>). What we need from ourselves is every form of assistance that will get each and every one of us closer to Jesus. We ought to help Jesus gather all as He prayed, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 17:11, 22</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;">: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Mal 2:10-17</span></b><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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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;"> Jesus is not anybody’s personal property.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <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%;"> May God help us to gather ourselves together – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are free to share this reflection with others if you consider it worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; 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Inclusive discipleship: Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (26th September, 2016).

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Not for nothing: Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year, (C) (25th September, 2016).

<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homily (Reflection) for the Twen<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">t</span>y-Sixth Sunday of the Year, (C) (25</span>^{<span style="font-size: small;">th</span>}<span style="font-size: large;"> September, 2016) on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Amos 6:1.4-7;</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Ps 145:6-10. (R. v. 2);</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">1Tim 6:11-16;</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 16:19-31</b>.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Topic:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Not for nothing</b>. </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SrxHC2J_OgRh-TrouHwwq8P__2Zl2A9tWzdTtSv4H-dhTzGtAVKs493DWczkG_PcEUlGbSvuSKMAfi-sK7YCPUaFUVk-4J5OfHAvNkIkKbRK90ezCdW0aT5ANmnd7UIeIRtQVyOF4Ts/s1600/25.09.2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SrxHC2J_OgRh-TrouHwwq8P__2Zl2A9tWzdTtSv4H-dhTzGtAVKs493DWczkG_PcEUlGbSvuSKMAfi-sK7YCPUaFUVk-4J5OfHAvNkIkKbRK90ezCdW0aT5ANmnd7UIeIRtQVyOF4Ts/s1600/25.09.2016.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">In today’s gospel is a figure that better depicts a wealthy king, “a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 16:19</b>). Surprisingly at his gate was the opposite, “a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 16:20-21</b>).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Lazarus died and was taken to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. While being tormented in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham with Lazarus by his side and cried, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finder in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 16:24</b>).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Someone who had been feasting sumptuously every day now begs for a dip of finger in water. The only thing that looks like kindness in him is his prayer for his brothers lest they end up in the same place of torment. However Abraham told him that they have Moses and the prophets. Although he wanted someone to go from the land of the dead but Abraham replied, “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.” </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The L</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is the maker of both the rich and the poor, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 22:2</b>. He gives riches and honour. God rules over all and His hand makes great and gives strength to all, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Chr 29:12</b>. Saint Paul also writes, “...all things are from God” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 11:12</b>). And, “...from him and through him and to him are all things” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rom 11:36</b>).</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">God can do all things including making everybody rich, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 19:26</b>. Yet He did not make it so. We can infer a good number of reasons why He arranged things the way they are. But for the purpose of this homily, let us settle with the one in the prophecy of Blessed Simeon, “so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 2:35</b>). Although we may not say exactly why God arranged things as they are, but He has done all things well, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Tim 4:4</b>. We cannot question God why He made one rich and the other poor, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is 45:9</b>.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The gospel did not tell us that the rich man did anything to Lazarus. In the words of the Psalmist he was being tormented in Hades because “he did not remember to show kindness” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 109:16</b>). The book of proverbs reads, “He who despises his neighbour is a sinner, but happy is he who is kind to the poor” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 14:21</b>). And whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 17:5</b>.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">God shows no partiality, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gal 2:6; Eph 6:9</b>. Through the prophet He commanded, “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jer 9:23</b>). Every gift is for the common good, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Pt 4:10</b>. Hence, the book of Ecclesiastes reads, “When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eccl 5:11</b>).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">There’s this story about heaven and hell. A devotee who wanted to know the difference between them was first led to hell. In hell, there was a banquet laid out with sumptuous food served on a long table. However, the elbows of all those seated at table could not be bent, and so it was impossible for them to put food into their mouths. This resulted in cursing and swearing all around. Heaven was no different. There too the devotee saw dishes laid out on a banquet table. Likewise, everybody’s elbows could not be bent. Interestingly, although heaven’s inhabitants couldn’t put food into their own mouths, they took food from the dishes and helped their neighbours to eat.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/fb/Year%20C%202015-2016/Ordinary%20Time%20of%20the%20Year%20C/Twenty-Sixth%20Sunday%20of%20the%20Year%20(C).docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><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: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">We must make the best of the Lazarus and the rich man we are. Nobody is totally poor that he/she has nothing to offer. Everyone is rich and poor at the same time. And “He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 19:17</b>). Again, “He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 21:13</b>). We conclude with these words of Saint Paul, “As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches but on God who richly furnishes us with everything to enjoy” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Tim 6:17</b>).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Jas 1:9-11; 1Tim 6:11-19.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 8pt 0in 0pt 112.3pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -112.3pt;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thought for today</b>: <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 5:7</b>).</span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Let us pray:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">            </span></span>Lord, help us to know how rich we are and to employ our riches for our brothers and sisters<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">– Amen.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">You are free to share this reflection with others if you consider it worthy.</span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more homilies (reflections):<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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Not for nothing: Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year, (C) (25th September, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for the Twen t y-Sixth Sunday of the Year, (C) (25 th September, 2016) on the Gospel Amos 6:1.4-7; Ps 145:6-1...

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