SAINT QUOTE OF THE DAY : Saturday - September 04, 2021

Saturday - September 04, 2021

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." 

- St. Thomas Aquinas

September 4, 2021

Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 436

 

Reading 1                                                     Col 1:21-23

Brothers and sisters:

You once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds;

God has now reconciled you

in the fleshly Body of Christ through his death,

to present you holy, without blemish,

and irreproachable before him,

provided that you persevere in the faith,

firmly grounded, stable,

and not shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard,

which has been preached to every creature under heaven,

of which I, Paul, am a minister.

 

Responsorial Psalm                                              54:3-4, 6 and 8

 

R.    (6) God himself is my help.

 

O God, by your name save me,

    and by your might defend my cause.

O God, hear my prayer;

    hearken to the words of my mouth.

R.    God himself is my help.

Behold, God is my helper;

    the Lord sustains my life.

Freely will I offer you sacrifice;

    I will praise your name, O LORD, for its goodness.

R.    God himself is my help.

 

Alleluia                                                                      Mt 11:28Jn 14:6

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

I am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord;

no one comes to the Father except through me.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

 

Gospel                                                                       Lk 6:1-5

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath,

his disciples were picking the heads of grain,

rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

Some Pharisees said,

“Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”

Jesus said to them in reply,

“Have you not read what David did

when he and those who were with him were hungry?

How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering,

which only the priests could lawfully eat,

ate of it, and shared it with his companions?”

Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”

 

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How does God feel about the evils of today?

How do you think God feels about Christians who give in to the ways of the world (i.e., the lies of Satan), and who are thereby alienating themselves from him and from us his faithful ones? How do you think he feels about their hostility toward us because we choose to stand firm in the truths of the Faith?

If you feel upset by the evils that are happening in our world today, God has given you his own righteous anger. You are his child, after all, and you inherited his holiness genes. Though we imitate him imperfectly, our feelings about the evil that has corrupted the world (even infiltrating our beloved Church) come from God's own heart of love.

Jesus suffered terrible tortures and an excruciating death for the sake of everyone -- everyone! Of course Father God is unhappy about every rejection of this gift and every snub by those who don't care. Everyone who has not remained firmly grounded and stable in the Christian faith that they professed, everyone who has shifted from the True Gospel: These are the biggest snubbers of all because they had the truth in their hands.

In God's pure love for them and for those who suffer because of them, he is taking action against the demons who are behind it all. God is very angry about the evil that has increasingly the world and the Church. And he is doing something about it! He is saying, "Enough!" We see evidence of this in the how desperately the Enemy is fighting to do as much destruction as possible before it gets crushed by the hand of God.

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God Bless You.....

The Rosary Family

The mother of Jesus promised St. Dominic that, “one day through the rosary & the scapular I shall save the world!”