So let's talk about today's readings 9/5/09

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September 5, 2009

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Reading 1
Col 1:21-23

Brothers and sisters:
You once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds;
God has now reconciled you
in the fleshly Body of Christ through his death,
to present you holy, without blemish,
and irreproachable before him,
provided that you persevere in the faith,
firmly grounded, stable,
and not shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard,
which has been preached to every creature under heaven,
of which I, Paul, am a minister.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 54:3-4, 6 and 8

R. (6) God himself is my help.
O God, by your name save me,
and by your might defend my cause.
O God, hear my prayer;
hearken to the words of my mouth.
R. God himself is my help.
Behold, God is my helper;
the Lord sustains my life.
Freely will I offer you sacrifice;
I will praise your name, O LORD, for its goodness.
R. God himself is my help.
Gospel
Lk 6:1-5

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath,
his disciples were picking the heads of grain,
rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
Some Pharisees said,
“Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
Jesus said to them in reply,
“Have you not read what David did
when he and those who were with him were hungry?
How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering,
which only the priests could lawfully eat,
ate of it, and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”

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So what struck you about today’s readings? :bible1::twocents:

 

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“…God has now reconciled you…provided that you…not shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard”
– We see here that we are not unconditionally reconciled forever. Isn’t it funny that
confession is now called reconcilitation. According to this reading, we should go
if our hope has shifted.

“O God, by your name save me,
and by your might defend my cause”
–And what is my cause? I don’t have a cause that’s worth anything. I have no
desire that’s worth praying for, because all my desires are dust in the wind, not
really worth anything compared to the causes of God. God is not my co-pilot.
Why should I ask help in flying my plane when it’s going nowhere? If God gives
me everything I ever wanted, all I do is just want more. That’s just the kind of
person I am, so instead of the prayer in today’s psalm, I might as well pray that

• I* could defend His cause.

“The Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath"
– So instead of disregarding the Sabbath, shouldn’t we honor it even more?
It doesn’t mean silly things like not eating, as the Pharisees suggested,
or not helping or healing people, but what does it mean? No one really agrees
on this.