So let's talk about today's readings 10/26/09

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October 26, 2009

Reading 1
Rom 8:12-17

Brothers and sisters,
we are not debtors to the flesh,
to live according to the flesh.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die,
but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you received a spirit of adoption,
through which we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if only we suffer with him
so that we may also be glorified with him.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 68:2 and 4, 6-7ab, 20-21

R. (21a) Our God is the God of salvation.
God arises; his enemies are scattered,
and those who hate him flee before him.
But the just rejoice and exult before God;
they are glad and rejoice.
R. Our God is the God of salvation.
The father of orphans and the defender of widows
is God in his holy dwelling.
God gives a home to the forsaken;
he leads forth prisoners to prosperity.
R. Our God is the God of salvation.
Blessed day by day be the Lord,
who bears our burdens; God, who is our salvation.
God is a saving God for us;
the LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death.
R. Our God is the God of salvation.
Gospel
Lk 13:10-17

Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
And a woman was there who for eighteen years
had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
“Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.
But the leader of the synagogue,
indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath,
said to the crowd in reply,
“There are six days when work should be done.
Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.”
The Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites!
Does not each one of you on the sabbath
untie his ox or his *** from the manger
and lead it out for watering?
This daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now,
ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day
from this bondage?”
When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
 
“if only we suffer with him”
– and how DO we suffer with Him? We know how to suffer, it comes by itself.
Often, we suffer for our sins, or someone else’s sins. We suffer ailments and
death, the loss of loved ones, but eventually everyone must die, it’s part of
nature we would suffer this anyway. We know that suffering unjustly due to
our faith is a good thing, but does it mean that we should go looking for trouble?
Or is there some other way to suffer with Him?

“God gives a home to the forsaken”
– This one always makes me think of the homeless. Are they not forsaken?
Then why does not God give them a home? We can’t give them our home,
supposing they are dangerous? Yet if we want to be like God, we have to help
the widow and orphan, and give the forsaken a home. Does anyone out there
know how to give a home to the homeless? Or is it a hopeless task?

"ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day
from this bondage?”
– This one always makes me sit up straight. If we are set free, then should we
go about our business looking to others as if we are in bondage?

So what struck you about today’s readings? :bible1::twocents:
 
I always find it fascinating that when Jesus heals people with physical afflictions, he is actually casting out Satan. I wonder how much of today’s illness and afflictions are really caused by Satan?

Satan wants us to suffer, truly. God wants us to be healed, truly.
 
I wonder how much of today’s illness and afflictions are really caused by Satan?
Not only that, but if you recall the story of the paralytic being lowered through the
roof, when Jesus healed him, He said, “Your sins are forgiven”. How can his sins
cause paralyzation?
 
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