THE LORD HIMSELF WILL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN
MONDAY WEEK 22 IN ORDINARY TIME Universalis
‘This is Joseph’s son, surely?’
Reading 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Do not grieve about those who have died in Jesus
We want you to be quite certain, brothers, about those who have died, to make sure that you do not grieve about them, like the other people who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and that it will be the same for those who have died in Jesus: God will bring them with him. We can tell you this from the Lord’s own teaching, that any of us who are left alive until the Lord’s coming will not have any advantage over those who have died. At the trumpet of God, the voice of the archangel will call out the command and the Lord himself will come down from heaven; those who have died in Christ will be the first to rise, and then those of us who are still alive will be taken up in the clouds, together with them; to meet the Lord in the air. So we shall stay with the Lord for ever. With such thoughts as these you should comfort one another.
Responsorial Psalm: The Lord comes to rule the earth
Gospel Luke 4:16-30 'This
text is being fulfilled today, even as you listen'
CDR: Jesus came to
Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the
sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read and they handed him the
scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it
is written:
The spirit of
the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring
the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new
sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour.
He then rolled
up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the
synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to speak to them, ‘This text is
being fulfilled today even as you listen.’ And he won the approval of all, and
they were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. They said,
‘This is Joseph’s son, surely?’
But he replied,
‘No doubt you will quote me the saying, “Physician, heal yourself” and tell me,
“We have heard all that happened in Capernaum, do the same here in your own
countryside.”’
And he went on,
‘I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country. ‘There were many
widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah’s day, when heaven remained shut
for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land,
but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at
Zarephath, a Sidonian town. And in the prophet Elisha’s time there were many
lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian, Naaman.’
When they heard
this everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their feet and
hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the hill their
town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped
through the crowd and walked away.
The Lord comes to rule the earth. Loving Father your reign is eternal. You are King for ever. Come rule our hearts and take control of our lives. This is surely Joseph's son. Today I honor Saint Joseph the foster father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father in heaven I thank you for your promise of redemption of humanity through your Son Jesus Christ.
Jesus I trust in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God's Angels and Saints pray for me. My Guardian Angel pray for me.
Pray the Holy Rosary: Hail Mary full of grace.
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