Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary:
480
Brothers and sisters:
Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.
For the husband is head of his wife
just as Christ is head of the Church,
he himself the savior of the Body.
As the Church is subordinate to Christ,
so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ loved the Church
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her,
cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
that he might present to himself the Church in splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish.
So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one hates his own flesh
but rather nourishes and cherishes it,
even as Christ does the Church,
because we are members of his Body.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery,
but I speak in reference to Christ and the Church.
In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself,
and the wife should respect her husband.
Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.
For the husband is head of his wife
just as Christ is head of the Church,
he himself the savior of the Body.
As the Church is subordinate to Christ,
so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ loved the Church
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her,
cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
that he might present to himself the Church in splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish.
So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one hates his own flesh
but rather nourishes and cherishes it,
even as Christ does the Church,
because we are members of his Body.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery,
but I speak in reference to Christ and the Church.
In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself,
and the wife should respect her husband.
Or Eph 5:2a, 25-32
Brothers and sisters:
Live in love, as Christ loved us.
Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ loved the church
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her,
cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
that he might present to himself the church in splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish.
So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one hates his own flesh
but rather nourishes and cherishes it,
even as Christ does the church,
because we are members of his body.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery,
but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.
Live in love, as Christ loved us.
Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ loved the church
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her,
cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
that he might present to himself the church in splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish.
So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one hates his own flesh
but rather nourishes and cherishes it,
even as Christ does the church,
because we are members of his body.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery,
but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
R. (1a) Blessed are those who fear the
Lord.
Blessed are you who fear the LORD,
who walk in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and favored.
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
in the recesses of your home;
Your children like olive plants
around your table.
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD bless you fromZion :
may you see the prosperity ofJerusalem
all the days of your life.
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Blessed are you who fear the LORD,
who walk in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and favored.
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
in the recesses of your home;
Your children like olive plants
around your table.
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD bless you from
may you see the prosperity of
all the days of your life.
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Gospel Lk 13:18-21
Jesus said, "What is the Kingdom of God
To what can I compare it?
It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden.
When it was fully grown, it became a large bush
and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches."
Again he said, "To what shall I compare theKingdom of God
It is like yeast that a woman took
and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch of dough was leavened."
To what can I compare it?
It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden.
When it was fully grown, it became a large bush
and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches."
Again he said, "To what shall I compare the
It is like yeast that a woman took
and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch of dough was leavened."
Meditation: "What God's kingdom is like"
"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit and transform me into the Christ-like holiness you desire. Increase my zeal for your kingdom and instill in me a holy desire to live for your greater glory."
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Listen to podcast version here. Jesus said, "What is the Introductory Prayer: Lord, I believe in you with a faith that never seeks to test you. I trust in you, hoping to learn to accept and follow your will, even when it does not make sense to the way that I see things. May my love for you and those around me be similar to the love you have shown to me. Petition: Lord, help me to value and seek the invisible strength of the 1. The Kingdom Grows from Small Beginnings: Jesus tells us two parables to help us understand the 2. You Don’t Have to Understand Biology to Be a Baker: In the parable of the leaven, something similar happens. Leaven has a mysterious property. Although it seems to be nothing special itself, even a small amount of it, mixed with dough, causes the dough to rise. The Jews listening to Jesus didn’t know why. They didn’t know that the leaven contained yeast spores that under the right conditions of heat, moisture and nutrients, would begin to grow and produce carbon dioxide gas (which is what makes the dough rise). It was mysterious to them, what power the leaven contained, but they knew that just a little of it would transform a much larger quantity of dough, so that the resulting bread would not just be matzo, but a much larger quantity of light, airy bread that is much nicer to eat. In a similar way, grace transforms the ordinary acts of our day, making them much nicer in God’s eyes. 3. The Church Transforms Societies: Both these parables apply to the Conversation with Christ: Dear Jesus I have seen so much of your Kingdom that I should believe without hesitation, yet I still worry about the final triumph of your Kingdom. Help me to have a greater faith, not only to believe what you said, but to help the spread of the Kingdom continue to come true in my society and culture. Resolution: I will try to be more optimistic about the Church in society, seeing how it has influenced so much of what is best in our society – love for the poor, love for enemies etc. Knowing that it is inspired by the Holy Spirit, I will accept that as it has happened so many times in the past, just when things look bleakest for the Church, God turns the tables, and it enters into another Golden Age. Didn’t John Paul II predict that we were just launching out into the New Age of Evangelization? |
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30
LUKE 13:18-21
(Ephesians 5:21-33; Psalm 128)
KEY VERSE: "What is the
REFLECTING: What are the seemingly unimportant things in my life that have potential for growth?
PRAYING: Lord Jesus, help me to trust that all things will be brought to fulfillment in your time.
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October 30 Tuesday
30TH WEEK IN ORDINARY
TIME
Reflection
The two short parables speak of the
undefeatable and irresistible power of the Kingdom of God
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Happy
are those who fear the Lord.
Be subject
to one another out of reverence for Christ.This opening passage says it all—in relationships be respectful in behaviour and treatment of other people, and do so because Christ leads the way. How often today do we hear women belittling men in their roles? How often today do we witness men disrespecting women through verbal, emotional and physical abuse? Yes, we joke about men never asking for directions, or we tell ‘blonde’ jokes—but how respectful to the other are such jokes?
We can laugh with affection at our loved one’s idiosyncrasies, but when it becomes a put-down, maybe we need to rethink the latest joke or little dig. Positive actions begun in such small ways can become like the mustard seed, growing into a grand tree.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
ATTITUDE
AND YOUTH
Youth
is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is the freshness of the deeper
springs of life.
Nobody
grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting
their ideals. Whether 60 or 16, every human being may experience wonder, the
undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing, childlike appetite for the
future, the joy in living. For you are as young as your faith, as old as your
doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your despair.
As
long as your heart receives messages of beauty hope, cheer, courage, and power
from God and from your fellow human beings, you are young.
From
A Canopy of Stars: Some Reflections for the Journey by Fr Christopher Gleeson
SJ [David Lovell Publishing 2003]
MINUTE MEDITATIONS
Tomorrow's
Church
So
we have a pretty good idea of what the Catholic Church will look like in the
future: It will look like the human race—colorful, infinitely diverse, but all
one family of God’s children. It will be truly Catholic—a word that means
“universal.” It will be enriched by beautiful traditions from all over the
planet.
—
from Yours is the Church
October 30
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
(c. 1533-1617)
(c. 1533-1617)
Tragedy and challenge beset today’s
saint early in life, but Alphonsus Rodriguez found happiness and contentment
through simple service and prayer.
Born in
Years later, at the death of his son, Alphonsus, almost 40 by then, sought to join the Jesuits. He was not helped by his poor education. He applied twice before being admitted. For 45 years he served as doorkeeper at the Jesuits’ college in
His holiness and prayerfulness attracted many to him, including St. Peter Claver, then a Jesuit seminarian. Alphonsus’s life as doorkeeper may have been humdrum, but he caught the attention of poet and fellow-Jesuit Gerard Manley
Alphonsus died in 1617. He is the patron saint of
Comment:
We like to think that God rewards the good even in this life. But Alphonsus knew business losses, painful bereavement and periods when God seemed very distant. None of his suffering made him withdraw into a shell of self-pity or bitterness. Rather, he reached out to others who lived with pain, including enslaved blacks. Among the many notables at his funeral were the sick and poor people whose lives he had touched. May they find such a friend in us!
We like to think that God rewards the good even in this life. But Alphonsus knew business losses, painful bereavement and periods when God seemed very distant. None of his suffering made him withdraw into a shell of self-pity or bitterness. Rather, he reached out to others who lived with pain, including enslaved blacks. Among the many notables at his funeral were the sick and poor people whose lives he had touched. May they find such a friend in us!
BL. MARIA TERESA OF ST. JOSEPH, (OCD),
VIRGIN (M)
Liturgy:
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
nna Maria Tauscher --
was born on June 19, 1855 in Sandow , Germany , which is now in Poland Carmel
Mother Maria Teresa
took for a model St. Teresa of Jesus, the great Spanish Mystic and Reformer of
the Order of Carmel Carmel
After a long life of
dedicated service, Mother Maria Teresa died at the age of 83 on September 20,
1938 at the Mother House of the Carmel DCJ, in Sittard, Holland St. Joseph Roermond ,
Netherlands
Before her death she
wrote: "To be able to dry tears, to heal wounds of souls from the heights
of heaven, this is my ardent wish."
PRAYER
O, God, Our Father, You purified Your
Servant Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
Encouraged by her example and her trust
in Your help we ask, through her intercession (name your intention here)
May Your holy Will be done Lord.
Make our hearts ready to accept what You send. Then we know that we pray in the spirit of Mother Mary Teresa.
This we ask through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Make our hearts ready to accept what You send. Then we know that we pray in the spirit of Mother Mary Teresa.
This we ask through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
LECTIO: LUKE 13,18-21
Lectio:
Tuesday, October 30,
2012
Ordinary Time
1) Opening prayer
Almighty and ever-living God,
Almighty and ever-living God,
strengthen our faith,
hope and love.
May we do with loving
hearts
what you ask of us
and come to share the
life you promise.
We ask this through
our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and
ever. Amen.
2) Gospel Reading - Luke 13,18-21
Jesus went on to say, 'What is thekingdom
of God
Jesus went on to say, 'What is the
Again he said, 'What
shall I compare the kingdom
of God
3) Reflection
• Context. Along the road that leads him to Jerusalem Jesus is surrounded by “thousands” of persons (11, 29) who crowd around him. The reason for such attraction on the part of the crowds is the Word of Jesus. In chapter 12 one can notice how the persons who listen to his Word alternate: the disciples (12, 1-12), the crowd (vv.13-21), the disciples (vv.22-53), the crowds (vv.54-59). Instead the scandal of the death is the dominating theme of Luke 13, 1-35. In the first part it is spoken about the death of all (vv.1-9), in the second part instead, of the death of Jesus (vv.31-35); to the death avoided for sinners because their conversion is expect6ed. But there is another theme that is put together with the dominating one: the salvation given to men. The cure of the woman who was bent, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had held during eighteen years, is liberated by Jesus. And in the centre of this chapter 13 we find two parables that constitute the whole or overall theme: theKingdom of God
• Context. Along the road that leads him to Jerusalem Jesus is surrounded by “thousands” of persons (11, 29) who crowd around him. The reason for such attraction on the part of the crowds is the Word of Jesus. In chapter 12 one can notice how the persons who listen to his Word alternate: the disciples (12, 1-12), the crowd (vv.13-21), the disciples (vv.22-53), the crowds (vv.54-59). Instead the scandal of the death is the dominating theme of Luke 13, 1-35. In the first part it is spoken about the death of all (vv.1-9), in the second part instead, of the death of Jesus (vv.31-35); to the death avoided for sinners because their conversion is expect6ed. But there is another theme that is put together with the dominating one: the salvation given to men. The cure of the woman who was bent, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had held during eighteen years, is liberated by Jesus. And in the centre of this chapter 13 we find two parables that constitute the whole or overall theme: the
• The Kingdom of God Palestine and
particularly close to the Lake
of Galilee Kingdom of God
• The Kingdom of God Kingdom
of God
• The effects of the
text on the reader. What do these two parables communicate to us? The Kingdom
of God compared by Jesus to a seed that becomes a tree, is to be put close to
the story of God as a story of his Word: it is hidden in human history and it
is growing; Luke thinks of the Word of God (the Kingdom of God in our midst)
that it is already developing but it has not as yet become a tree. Jesus and the
Holy Spirit are supporting this growth of the Word. The image of yeast
completes the frame of the seed. The yeast is the Gospel that is working in the
world, in the ecclesial communities, in the individual believers.
4) Personal questions
• Are you aware that theKingdom
of God
• Are you aware that the
• The Kingdom is a
humble reality, hidden, poor and silent, immersed between the competition and
pleasures of life. Have you understood from the two parables, that you will not
be able to get a glimpse of the Kingdom if you do not have an attitude of
humble and silent listening?
5) Concluding Prayer
How blessed are all who fear Yahweh,
How blessed are all who fear Yahweh,
who walk in his ways!
Your own labours will
yield you a living,
happy and prosperous
will you be. (Ps 128,1-2)
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