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Immersed in Christ: February 15, 2020

Father David M. Knight

Feb 15, 2020

Immersed in Christ: February 15, 2020

Saturday, Week Five of Ordinary Time Lord, remember us, for the love you bear your people. (Responsorial: Psalm 106) 1 Kings 12:26 to 13:34: Jeroboam, though he was chosen by God to be king, led his people to worship false gods. His reasoning was: If this people continues to go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD at Jerusalem, the heart of this people will turn again to King Rehoboam of Judah. [So he] made two calves of gold. He said to the people... “Here are yo

Immersed in Christ: February 14, 2020

Immersed in Christ

Feb 14, 2020

Immersed in Christ: February 14, 2020

Friday, Week Five in Ordinary Time I am the Lord, your God: hear my voice. (Responsorial: Psalm 81) 1 Kings 11:29 to 12:19: The Mass readings (29-32) omit the explanation of how Jeroboam became king. After one failed revolt, he went into exile in Egypt. Solomon’s son Rehoboam succeeded him. The people asked him to “lighten the hard service your father placed on us, and we will serve you.” Rehoboam took counsel with the older men... They answered, “If you will be a servant to

Immersed in Christ: February 13, 2020

Father David M. Knight

Feb 13, 2020

Immersed in Christ: February 13, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Thursday of Week Five (Ordinary Time) Lord, remember us, for the love you bear your people. (Responsorial: Psalm 106) 1 Kings 11:4-13: Solomon was wise. But wisdom doesn’t do us any good if we don’t live by what we know. Solomon’s downfall was his attraction to foreign women. God had told the Israelites not to enter into marriage with Gentiles, those who worshiped other gods, “for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods.” Solomon

Father David's Reflection for Friday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Feb 7, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Friday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Blessed be God, my salvation! (Responsorial: Psalm 18) Sirach 47:2-11: What is striking about Sirach’s praise of David is that after each accomplishment he lists, he tells us what David was aware of. When he slew Goliath, he “called on the Lord Most High.” He was aware of who “gave strength to his right arm.” In all the battles he won, “he gave thanks to the Holy One.” He “put all his heart into his songs, out of love for his Maker.” He enhanced the singing and music at feas

Father David's Reflection for Thursday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Feb 6, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Thursday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Lord, you are exalted over all! (Responsorial; 1Chronicles 29:10-12) 1Kings 2:1-12: On his deathbed David tells his son Solomon to act according to God’s mind heart so that God will keep his promise to extend his family’s reign over Israel forever. The expurgated version read at Mass omits verses 5 to 9, in which David tells his son not to let two people who offended him—Joab and Shimei—die a natural death. God called David “a man after his own heart.” How could he do that wh

Father David's Reflection for Wednesday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Feb 5, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Wednesday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Lord, forgive the wrong I have done! (Responsorial: Psalm 32) 2Samuel 24: 2-17 bewilders us. Why would God punish David so severely—and send such suffering on his people—just because he took a census? Our bewilderment reveals a deep and serious flaw in the way we were taught morality. David’s sin was that he was gratifying his love of power. Like a miser counting money, he wanted to gloat over how many troops he could put in the field. Even Joab tried to warn him: “Why does

Father David's Reflection for Tuesday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Feb 4, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Tuesday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Listen, Lord, and answer me! (Responsorial: Psalm 86) 2Samuel 18:9 to 19:3: When Joab, the head of David’s army, caught up with David’s rebel son, Absalom, who was helplessly entangled in the branches of a tree, he had no scruples about killing him. By killing his prisoner, Joab won the war. But David did not rejoice. The king was deeply moved.., and wept… “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!” …So the victory

Father David's Reflection for Monday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Feb 3, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Monday of Week Four (Ordinary Time)

*St. Blaise (blessing of throats) Lord, rise up and save me! (Responsorial: Psalm 3) 2Samuel 15:13 to 16:13: When David was fleeing from the revolt of his son Absalom, he was too depressed even to react against Shimei, who was cursing him. When David returned victorious he felt too good to punish him: “Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day?” But later, when he was dying, he told his son Solomon to “bring Shimei’s gray head down with blood to Sheol.” 1 Three differen

Father David's Reflection for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (4th Sunday of Year A)

Father David M. Knight

Feb 2, 2020

Father David's Reflection for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (4th Sunday of Year A)

THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD Also: The Purification of Mary and “Candlemas” “The light of revelation to the nations, the glory of your people” Appreciating the Light that purifies, frees and fulfills us. Inventory What does the Presentation of Jesus in the temple say to you? Have you meditated on this event frequently while praying over the “fourth joyful mystery” of the Rosary? How often have you read the account of it in the Bible? Input The Entrance Antiphon (Psalm 48:10-1

Father David's Reflection for Saturday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Feb 1, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Saturday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Create a clean heart in me, O Lord. (Responsorial: Psalm 51) In 2Samuel 12: 1-17 makes one thing clear to us; we don’t know anyone else’s deepest heart, and often not our own. When Nathan confronted David with his sin, what David revealed was that he despised what he had done. He wasn’t aware he was speaking of himself when he said, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die… because he had no pity.” But when Nathan made him aware, he said, “I have sinned a

Father David's Reflection for Friday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 31, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Friday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned. (Responsorial: Psalm 51) In 2 Samuel 11: 1-17 David hit bottom. His sin was not only adultery but rape, because when he summoned to his palace the wife of Uriah, one of his faithful officers deployed in battle, she couldn’t refuse. When she became pregnant, and David realized he couldn’t hide from Uriah what he had done, he covered up his sin by having the army set up Uriah to die in battle. In this David was utterly contemptible. And

Father David's Reflection for Thursday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 30, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Thursday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

God will give him the throne of David his Father. (Responsorial: Psalm 132) 2 Samuel 7: 18-29: There is something very interesting in David’s response to God’s promise. His focus is not on what it meant to himself, but on what it says about God: According to your own heart, you have wrought all this greatness, so that your servant may know it. Therefore you are great, O LORD God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you,... Thus your name will be magnifi

Father David's Reflection for Wednesday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 29, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Wednesday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Forever I will keep my love for him. (Responsorial: Psalm 89) In 2 Samuel 7:4-17 God made a breathtaking promise to David: I will make for you a great name, like the names of the great ones of the earth… I will … raise up your offspring after you… He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. What would it be like to live in awareness that God made a promise like that to you? Has God destined each one of us for greatness, or just

Father David's Reflection for Tuesday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 28, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Tuesday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord. (Responsorial: Psalm 24) In 2 Samuel 6:12-19 David made a fool of himself in the eyes of his wife Michal, Saul’s daughter. They were bringing the Ark of the Covenant into the city, and David was dancing, “whirling around before the Lord with all his might, wearing nothing but a linen loincloth.” Michal “despised him in her heart” and told him sarcastically: “How the king of Israel honored himself today, showing himself half naked be

Father David's Reflection for Monday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 27, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Monday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

My faithfulness and love shall be with him. (Responsorial: Psalm 89) In 2 Samuel 5:1-10 the people give power to David. “The LORD said to you: It is you who shall… be ruler over Israel.” So all the elders… anointed David king over Israel. They did it because they knew the Lord had chosen him. This is the only real and legitimate source of authority. We obey authorities because they are over us in our employment, or elected officials, or sometimes because, literally or not, t

Father David's Reflection for Sunday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 26, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Sunday of Week Three (Ordinary Time)

THE THIRD SUNDAY OF THE YEAR A Appreciating the Life in the Light Inventory What one book have you learned the most from in your life? Who wrote it? How often do you read or consult it now? Input The Entrance Antiphon calls us to “sing a new song to the Lord,” because “truth and beauty surround him.” To keep singing a new song, we have to keep entering into new truth, new beauty. The “Beauty ever ancient, ever new” that St. Augutine wrote of. We can find him, the Word, in his

Father David's Reflection for Saturday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 25, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Saturday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

“Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.” (Responsorial: Mark 16:15; Psalm 117) Acts 22:3-16 is Paul’s basic experience of Jesus. It gives the key to everything he preached and wrote for the rest of his life. The Jesus Paul met, the Jesus he was aware of from that minute forward, was Jesus identified with those who believe in him. When Paul asked, “Who are you?” Jesu s answered, “I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.” Paul could have responded, “I am persec

Father David's Reflection for Friday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 24, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Friday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

Have mercy on me, God, have mercy.. (Responsorial: Psalm 57) 1 Samuel 24: 3-21 shows us a contrast in awareness. Saul was intent on killing David, his focus limited to only one thing: David was a threat to his position and power. When Saul came alone into the cave where David and his men were hiding, and did not see them, all his men could think of was, “This is our chance to kill him.” But David was keenly aware of something else: “He is the anointed of the Lord.” David fel

Father David's Reflection for Thursday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 23, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Thursday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

In God I trust; I shall not fear. (Responsorial: Psalm 56) In 1Samuel 18:6 to 19:7 envy of David’s popularity makes Saul decide to kill him. This was really stupid. What had he ceased to be aware of? Saul had forgotten he was only king by obedience: because God told him to be. Without God’s support, what was he? He was ignoring the gift of Fear of the Lord, which would have shown him that, seen in perspective, the real value of his kingship was in the relationship he had with

Father David's Reflection for Wednesday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

Father David M. Knight

Jan 22, 2020

Father David's Reflection for Wednesday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)

Blessed be the Lord, my rock. (Responsorial: Psalm 144) In 1 Samuel 17: 32-51 young David brings down the giant Goliath with a slingshot. But the heart of the story is the difference between what Goliath was aware of and what David was. Goliath was just aware of what he saw: his size and strength compared to David’s, his weapons compared to David’s. David was aware of something not seen: the mystery of God’s presence, God’s involvement in the fight, and of himself as aided by

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