Serving God in Freedom

Sunday 13, Ordinary Time, Year C

Inventory

In one sentence, what am I living for? Would I call this my “ministry”? Am I willing to sacrifice everything else

for it? Am I conscious of it all day long?

Input

This week the Responsorial Psalm says four things that give us a summary of the Mass prayers and readings— “You are my inheritance, O Lord” (Psalm 16; see verses 1-11).

1. God is...

For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us. (Responsorial: Psalm 79)

Acts 3:1-10: Everyone knows the story of a pope who said, commenting on this text amid the riches of the Vatican, “Peter can no longer say, ‘Silver and gold have I none.’” A saint replied: “No, and neither can he say, ‘Rise and walk.’”

Since the remark is attributed to various saints, it may be just legend, but it makes us thin...

The Responsorial verses proclaim God’s goodness to the powerless: “The Lord has remembered his mercy”

(see the Magnificat: Luke 1: 46-55).

In Genesis 18: 1-15 Sarah is the one laughing at the idea she could conceive a child in her old age. God’s response to that is, “Is anything too marvelous for the LORD to do?”

This reminds us of the angel’s words to Mary when he announced that she would conceive a...

Feast of The Sacred Heart of Jesus (Year C).

Ezekiel 34: 11-16 follows God’s indictment of Israel’s rulers:  “Ah, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?... You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strayed, sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them. So they were scattere...