![]() What’s the one necessary thing? It is to listen to the voice of Jesus as he tells you of his love and as he tells you who you are. Reading 1 1 Tm 2:1-8 Beloved: First of all, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. There is a cacophony of voices calling out to you there are a thousand influences pulling you this way and that. When the just cry out, the LORD hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them. My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold Praised be the LORD, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies. USCCBs inventory records and to evaluate interest in USCCBs web pages. I love you, O LORD, my strength, O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. The LORD confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by. She sits quietly at the feet of the Lord, not so much eschewing work as gathering herself, learning what she is essentially about. (19a) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. And what is Mary being praised for? Not precisely that she is “contemplative,” but that she has chosen the unum necessarium (the one necessary thing). What does he upbraid Martha for? “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and upset about many things.” It is the frantic, divided, unfocused quality of her life that Jesus is drawing attention to. Burbidge of Arlington, chairman of the U.S. ![]() I would like to stress that the active/contemplative reading of the Martha and Mary story is not that helpful. Since 1973, the Catholic Church in the United States has observed October as Respect Life Month. “Hey Bishop, I think Martha gets a bum rap.” And for centuries the story has been read that Martha represents the “active” life and Mary the “contemplative” life. For the one who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened.Friends, today’s Gospel inspires protests more than almost any other that I’ve preached on. Let justice descend, O heavens, like dew from above, like gentle rain let the skies drop it down. I am the LORD, there is no other I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe I, the LORD, do all these things. "And so I say to you, 'Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and it will be opened to you. Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church. O bless the Lord, my soul He pardons all your iniquities, he heals all your ills. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Jesus said to his disciples, "Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to his house in the middle of the night and says: 'Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine who is traveling has just arrived and I have nothing to offer him.' Maybe your friend will answer from inside: 'Don't bother me now the door is locked and my children and I are in bed, so I can't get up and give you anything.' But I tell you, even though he will not get up and attend to you because you are a friend, yet he will get up because you are a bother to him, and he will give you all you need. (1) O bless the Lord, my soul Bless the LORD, O my soul and all my being, bless his holy name. The sun of justice with its healing rays. When all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble,Īnd the day that is coming will set them on fire,īut for you who fear my name, there will arise For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls. He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. My own special possession, on the day I take action.Īs a man has compassion on his son who serves him.įor lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, instead, he handed himself over to the one who judges justly. Of those who fear the LORD and trust in his name.Īnd they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook. They cried one to the other, Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts All the earth is filled with his glory. Then they who fear the LORD spoke with one another, In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. ![]() Yet you ask, "What have we spoken against you?"Īnd what do we profit by keeping his command, ![]() You have defied me in word, says the LORD, ![]()
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