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Sunday, September 12, 2010

XXIV 'Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C ) 4 th Week of the Psalter

Liturgical Color: GREEN

Saint of the Day : Holy Name of Mary

Optional Memory

The Feast of the Holy Name of Mary was granted by Rome in 1513, a diocese of Spain, Cuenca. Suppressed by St. Pius V, was restored by Pope Sixtus V in 1671 and then extended to the Kingdom of Naples and Milan. On September 12, 1683, by John III Sobieski with his Polish won the Turks who were besieging Vienna and threatened the Christians, the Blessed Innocent XI, in thanksgiving, extended the feast to the universal Church and stared at the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity. Pope St Pius X brought it back to September 12.

Martyrology: Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary on this day evokes the ineffable love of the Mother of God for His most holy Son and is proposed to the faithful of the Mother of the Redeemer because it is devoutly invoked.

LITURGY OF THE DAY

First reading

Es 32,7-11.13-14
The Lord repented of the evil that had threatened to do to his people.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 50

Remember me, Lord, in Your love.

Second reading

1 Tim 1.12 to 17
Christ came to save sinners.

Gospel

Luke 15.1-32
There will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents.

+ From the Gospel according to Luke

At that time, came to Jesus all the publicans and sinners to hear him. The Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them. "

And he told them this parable: "Which of you, having a hundred sheep and loses one, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and goes in search of the lost one until you find it? When he found it full of joy, whether on his shoulders, goes home, calls his friends and neighbors and says to them: "Rejoice with me because I have found my sheep that was lost." I tell you, so there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no conversion.

Or what woman, if he has ten coins and loses one, light the lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds? And after finding it, call together her friends and neighbors, and says, 'Rejoice with me because I found the coin that I lost. " So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. "

he said: "A man had two sons. The younger one said to his father: "Father, give me the share of assets that belong to me." And he divided his wealth between them. A few days later, the younger son gathered all his belongings and set off for a distant country where he squandered his fortune by living debauchery. When he had spent everything, came a severe famine in that country, and he began to feel the pinch. So he went to serve a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. He would gladly have fed on the pods which were fed the pigs, but nobody gave him anything. Then came to himself and said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! I will get up, go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your employees. " He got up and returned to his father.
When he was away, his father saw him, he had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. The son said "Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son." But the father said to his servants, 'Quick, Bring out the best robe and let her wear , Put the ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and kill it; we are celebrating, because this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found ". And they began to celebrate.

The eldest son was in the field. Come back when it was close to home, he heard music and dancing called one of the servants and asked what it was all of this. That's said, "Your brother is here and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound." He was indignant, and refused to go. His father then went out to beg. But he said to his father: "Behold, I served you for many years and I never disobeyed your command, and you've never given a young goat to celebrate with my friends. But now that this son of yours came back, who has devoured your substance with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf. " The father said "Son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours, but we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found "."

Word of the Lord.

REFLECTION (Antonio Solmona)

"And if one day I am noticing it was wrong and wanted to get back to you? Will I? Sure and you have the best dress! "

It almost seems to shine in the word of this dialogue today. It seems to be a box that many times we, in our silence that we weave a prayer How many times we feel with God away, or we went away on purpose and we have the constant fear of being alone on the boat in the middle of a stormy sea.

Lord, where are you? If you need to stay well away from my life, then it is good that you and I close the report, and each in his own way.

You have given me the inheritance that I deserve, made by the beauty of the sacraments, from the carefree days spent beside you and still wants to talk to and confide everything. But now I go away, maybe forever ... but if I miss I can get back to you? Tell me you ...!

Everyone can take us far by him, the desire for power, fame, work, sometimes even love, but who has tried for a moment close to God in his life, he can not do without it, will remain closely tied to him and will continue to look for it.

The Lord gives us in these three parables told the crowd around him, the sense of freedom that God offers us. He is a God who frees us, not oppressive. He is a God who forgives and accepts, not that condemns and rejects a child.

Although all possible cases of life take us away from God's presence, at any time decide to return, he is always ready to welcome us, to open His arms and let us share in his joy.

The doors of the Heart of God are always open for those who decide to return to him, without fear of being judged or rejected.

The ideal condition, however, would be to stay grounded in God's heart, because the tree that has roots well grounded in the rich soil of living water will never thirst. The only one who can give us the security of not becoming of dry wood is your God, who with his love, his concern with the care our lives every day.

We must learn, however, dear brothers, to use more and better practice that acts as an intermediary between us and God, prayer.

Only with prayer and love we can bring God to mercy. We discover the practices that the Church offers us to approach the presence of God Let us pick up the Rosary, without shame, we bring to God our needs, our fears, our joys and in Eucharistic adoration, we participate with faith and fervor to the Holy Mass frequently and let us approach the confessional, and then do not forget to meditate on the word of God and talk with Him every day. Let's get rid of the box of things already done by others and ready to act as a magic formula ... we open our hearts to God and speak the words that he himself suggests. We experience spontaneity in prayer and we will feel different, freer, and we feel even closer to the Father's love.

Good Sunday!