Sunday's Mass Readings - Prophet speaks of Insufficient fear of the Lord

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Sunday (11-30)

Isaiah 63:16-17, 19; 64:2-7
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You, Lord, are our Father, our redeemer you are named forever. Why do you let us wander, O Lord, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you, while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for, such as they had not heard of from of old. No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for him. Would that you might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of you in our ways! Behold, you are angry, and we are sinful; all of us have become like unclean people, all our good deeds are like polluted rags; we have all withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the wind. There is none who calls upon your name, who rouses himeld to cling to you; for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our guilt. Yet, O Lord, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all the work of your hands.

1 Cor 1:3-9:

Brothers and Sisters: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus, that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge, as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you, so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord ***Jesus Christ. He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ***God is faithful and by him you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

St. Mark 13:33-37:

Jesus said to his disciples: “Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. It is like a man traveling abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge, each with his own work, and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch. Watch, therefore; you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’”
 
I forgot to add my personal “homilizings” to this post… 😃

Also: It is interesting how the Church decides on which scriptures to use at which Mass.

Does anyone out there know how they do that? Because It is amazing to me how the passages always seem to coincide with… varoius events - current ones…

I think it’s interesting how they (today & throughout the past few days…) focus on Fear of God & judgment and End times. When i turn the TV on (which is very rare)… I see just the opposite (no fear of Him whatsoever): people committing all kinds of sinful acts (or acting as if they were) and no mention is made of whether it may be immoral or not…or even Not a good idea… (homosexuality / transexual operations / adultery, etc.)

I think we should write letters to the advertizers. Does anyone do that anymore? I have to admit, i have been lazy about it lately. I think i am still depressed (No, i KNOW I am) over the election results… 😦 and depression sometimes debilitates a person… I feel defeated… I know i shouldn’t feel that way, but i do and i can’t seem to shake it…

Anyway… If you could answer some of these q uestions… (they are not meant to be rhetorical)… Thanks… 🙂
 
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