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Our Journey
Week of October 24 – 30, 2011 Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
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Believe it or not the season of Pentecost is almost over. We have about a month before we begin our Advent journey. Where does the time go? Between now and November 27 we have All Hallows’ Eve, All Saint’s and All Soul’s celebration, the ever popular change back from Daylight Savings time, and Thanksgiving. By the way there is only about 64 more shopping days before Christmas.
Here’s a short parable for you to ponder!
In life we all need faith… so I tell you a story of faith. The man was crossing the desert. He was out of water. He spots a water pump near an abandoned shack. He inched his way up to the pump, mustered up enough strength to work the handle, but nothing happened. No water came. Then he noticed a jug near the handle with a note attached. The note read, “There is just enough water in this jug to prime the pump, but not if you drink some first. This well has never gone dry, even in the worst of droughts. Just pour the water from the jug into the pump then pump the handle quickly. After you have satisfied your thirst, refill this jug for the next thirsty person who comes along.”
What should the man dying of thirst have done? The contents of the note called for trust in the person who wrote it. If the dying man followed the instructions, he ran the risk of pouring all the water from the jug into a pump that might fail. He was being asked to put his trust in the message. He was being asked to respond to the message in faith. He was asked to accept without reservation the absolute truth of the message.
Fr. Bob+
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Matthew 22:34-46
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: “What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” He said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’? If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
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