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August 22, 2010
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
***Sunday 8-22 Mass Readings / Commentry (Discipline is not “fun” but necessary… / God disciplines those he loves / Someone asks Jesus if only a few will be saved… answer seems to be no) ***
Reading 1
Is 66:18-21
Thus says the LORD:
I know their works and their thoughts,
and I come to gather nations of every language;
they shall come and see my glory.
I will set a sign among them;
from them I will send fugitives to the nations:
to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan,
to the distant coastlands
that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory;
and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.
They shall bring all your brothers and sisters from all the nations
as an offering to the LORD,
on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries,
to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the LORD,
just as the Israelites bring their offering
to the house of the LORD in clean vessels.
Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the LORD.
**Ps. 117:1, 2Responsorial Psalm. (Mk 16:15) **
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the LORD all you nations;
glorify him, all you peoples!
R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
or:
R. Alleluia.
For steadfast is his kindness toward us,
and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.
R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Heb 12:5-7, 11-13Reading 2
Brothers and Sisters,
***You have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children:
“My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord
or lose heart when reproved by him;
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;
he scourges every son he acknowledges.”***Endure your trials as “discipline”;
God treats you as sons.
For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?
At the time,
all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain,
yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness
to those who are trained by it.
So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.
Make straight paths for your feet,
that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.
Lk 13:22-30Gospel
Jesus passed through towns and villages,
teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem.
Someone asked him,
***“Lord, will only a few people be saved?” ***He answered them,
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate,
for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter
but will not be strong enough.
After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door,
then will you stand outside knocking and saying,
‘Lord, open the door for us.’
He will say to you in reply,
‘I do not know where you are from.
And you will say,
‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’
Then he will say to you,
‘I do not know where you are from.
Depart from me, all you evildoers!’
And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth
when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
and all the prophets in the kingdom of God
and you yourselves cast out…
.
.
The 2nd reading is about discipline & how God disciplines his followers (his “sons”). A human father (a good one) disciplines his children. For one thing, he knows how difficult the world is and how necessary discipline is in order to avoid certain dangers (etc). So it stands to reason our heavenly Father would do this also… but as the psg says, this discipline is hard to deal with and we don’t see the need for it (etc) until… well, sometimes we dont see until the end…
Jesus says that many people “will attempt to enter Heaven but wont be strong enough.”
I know i myself am not strong enough… without Jesus… and even we who love Jesus & try to follow Him in every way are “without” Him because He is not the ruler of this world, the devil is… and the devil’s hate and destructiveness rules (virtually) and he crowds out thoughts of Jesus… which is why Jesus had to come to Earth… to conquer that **** since no human being can do this in his own power…and why Jesus had to establish the Church & give the Church the weapons He has given it…(Real Presence/Mass/rosary…)He promises that the gates of Hell will not prevail over his Church (St Mt 16:18). He didn’t promise that the gates of Hell would not prevail over individuals, especially those outside the protective walls of His Church…
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
***Sunday 8-22 Mass Readings / Commentry (Discipline is not “fun” but necessary… / God disciplines those he loves / Someone asks Jesus if only a few will be saved… answer seems to be no) ***
Reading 1
Is 66:18-21
Thus says the LORD:
I know their works and their thoughts,
and I come to gather nations of every language;
they shall come and see my glory.
I will set a sign among them;
from them I will send fugitives to the nations:
to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan,
to the distant coastlands
that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory;
and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.
They shall bring all your brothers and sisters from all the nations
as an offering to the LORD,
on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries,
to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the LORD,
just as the Israelites bring their offering
to the house of the LORD in clean vessels.
Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the LORD.
**Ps. 117:1, 2Responsorial Psalm. (Mk 16:15) **
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the LORD all you nations;
glorify him, all you peoples!
R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
or:
R. Alleluia.
For steadfast is his kindness toward us,
and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.
R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Heb 12:5-7, 11-13Reading 2
Brothers and Sisters,
***You have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children:
“My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord
or lose heart when reproved by him;
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;
he scourges every son he acknowledges.”***Endure your trials as “discipline”;
God treats you as sons.
For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?
At the time,
all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain,
yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness
to those who are trained by it.
So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.
Make straight paths for your feet,
that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.
Lk 13:22-30Gospel
Jesus passed through towns and villages,
teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem.
Someone asked him,
***“Lord, will only a few people be saved?” ***He answered them,
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate,
for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter
but will not be strong enough.
After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door,
then will you stand outside knocking and saying,
‘Lord, open the door for us.’
He will say to you in reply,
‘I do not know where you are from.
And you will say,
‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’
Then he will say to you,
‘I do not know where you are from.
Depart from me, all you evildoers!’
And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth
when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
and all the prophets in the kingdom of God
and you yourselves cast out…
.
.
The 2nd reading is about discipline & how God disciplines his followers (his “sons”). A human father (a good one) disciplines his children. For one thing, he knows how difficult the world is and how necessary discipline is in order to avoid certain dangers (etc). So it stands to reason our heavenly Father would do this also… but as the psg says, this discipline is hard to deal with and we don’t see the need for it (etc) until… well, sometimes we dont see until the end…
Jesus says that many people “will attempt to enter Heaven but wont be strong enough.”
I know i myself am not strong enough… without Jesus… and even we who love Jesus & try to follow Him in every way are “without” Him because He is not the ruler of this world, the devil is… and the devil’s hate and destructiveness rules (virtually) and he crowds out thoughts of Jesus… which is why Jesus had to come to Earth… to conquer that **** since no human being can do this in his own power…and why Jesus had to establish the Church & give the Church the weapons He has given it…(Real Presence/Mass/rosary…)He promises that the gates of Hell will not prevail over his Church (St Mt 16:18). He didn’t promise that the gates of Hell would not prevail over individuals, especially those outside the protective walls of His Church…