Sunday, October 10, 2010
^ XXVIII Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C ) ; ^ 4 Week Psalter
Liturgical Color: GREEN
Saint of the Day: St. Daniel Comboni , Bishop
Limone del Garda (Brescia), March 15, 1831 - Khartoum (Sudan), October 10, 1881
was born in Limone sul Garda March 15, 1831, he was educated in Verona, and is formed in a Central European cultural orbit, died in Khartoum in Sudan October 10, 1881, belongs in full to the history of the missionary movement, restore, thanks to his work, realizing the fact that apostolic revival - which began in the nineteenth century - will come down to us. Strategy of the new missionary in Africa, is the apostle of the Comboni Nigrizia and consider faith as the only weapon with which you can return to African dignity. Daniele Comboni was beatified by Pope John Paul II March 17, 1996 and canonized by him Oct. 5, 2003.
Etymology: Daniel = God is my judge, Hebrew
Emblem: pastoral staff, Dresses Bishops, Paper
Martyrology: In the city of Khartoum in Sudan, St. Daniel Comboni, the bishop, who founded the Institute for African Missions and was appointed bishop in Africa, he worked without skimping energies in preaching the Gospel in those regions and in taking care in every way the dignity of human beings.
LITURGY OF THE DAY
First reading
Responsorial Psalm
The Lord has revealed his righteousness to the people.
Second reading
Gospel
+ From the Gospel according to Luke
Along the way to Jerusalem, Jesus passed through Samaria and Galilee .
entering a village, he was met by ten lepers, which stood at a distance and said aloud: "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" . When he saw them, Jesus said to them: 'Go and show yourselves to the priests. " And as they went, they were purified.
One of them, seeing healed, turned back praising God with a loud voice, and bowed down to Jesus , at his feet to thank him . He was a Samaritan.
Jesus said: "I'm not were purified ten? And where are the other nine? You have not found anyone who would come back to give glory to God except this foreigner? ". And he said "Get up and go ', your faith has saved you!" .
Word of the Lord
REFLECTION (Antonio Solmona)
Along the way
Jesus in the three years of preaching was almost always traveling on the roads of his homeland, defying all sorts of danger, obstacle, meeting people from every tongue and nation.
has traveled the winding roads, steep dirt roads of his country without forgetting that the goal was to proclaim the Good News.
Our very life is a journey, long or short we can not know, but for those who believe it always leads to the same end point, the heart of God
The Gospel passage of today continues to speak of faith, but a new light concrete this time, but through metaphors and parables often as Jesus did and as we saw last Sunday.
The Lord then makes a gesture that is part of the ordinary for him, and walking is about to enter a city, we do not know the name, which will make a match that will make real to his followers a sense of having faith in God
Jesus went to Jerusalem, where he will face the atrocity of martyrdom, loneliness, death on the cross, but first wants to finish the conversation with his followers and entered a village ...
"Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
A village like so many this and Luke does not even bother to understand farcene the name or location, but we know that the Lord will come out from here to Jericho, where he will meet another wonderful, the one with Zacchaeus and then start to the great capital, Jerusalem.
Entering this community must meet the ten men, taken anything from the society of the place, only to be despised beings and keep away because they do not physically pure and therefore condemned by God for some of their misdeeds. What is to blame? Only that he had contracted leprosy, a disease very common in those times and not only in that region.
Perhaps the heart of these men there was a serious desire to believe that the Master, that is so maybe they had heard could free them from this label that brought them to live isolated and not considered. Last Sunday we heard that the disciples asked Jesus the same faith, now other potential followers to ask God made man to have pity on them, to heal them.
Have mercy on us! Look how bad this has made us nothing in the body and spirit! Give us the healing because our heart, our soul feels as trapped in a shadow where the light of grace can not leak out ... deliver us ...!
It seems that even the cry of humanity rises to God in times of discouragement and solitude, where everything seems to be falling apart in the past and those that were certainties, uncertainties are suddenly ...!
Only in Christ, we like these lepers, we see the healing, the grace that can bring the benefit of the body, we see the solution to a problem that can take our life and we often say: "Now I is not nothing left but to pray to God ". We see Jesus Christ as the last foothold to cling to when the world, science, man can not find an answer solver.
The Lord hears the cry of these great men, not even asking them the general, does not want to know if I am with him or against him, but wants to offer them two options: one for healing and one for salvation! They look like two words that mean the same thing, but they are having very different meaning in theological perspective.
One of them, came back and bowed down to Jesus , to thank .
Here, as often happens, the Lord in his goodness has granted that these men are healed. It makes them once again worthy of return in the village and to present themselves to priests to prove their healing and reintegrating them in the active population of the village.
The Lord gives the grace of physical healing and the joy of the heart, made with found, re-embraced their wives and children, work resumed in short, everything a man needs.
But there is one to grasp in all this! Those who, finding himself healed, will return to give thanks to those who have healed? How will this act of gratitude to Jesus? Just one! And on top of Luke tells us: "He was a Samaritan." That is a man who was just across from the thought of being able to bring only Jesus, if not to throw stones. Yet we find, after the parable of the Good Samaritan, Samaritan another man who not only calls for the grace of Christ to heal his wounded body, but he gets two, to have open eyes and to believe in Jesus, back to thank him for the future recovery.
The Samaritan feels inside when a radical change, not only physical healing but also spiritual. Not only thanks him, but "bows" at the feet of Jesus The act of worship at the feet of someone, especially in the Jewish religion, it means being servants to the service, in a certain way slaves forever grateful to the person who receives this tribute.
Of the ten men, nine had only one Jewish and the Samaritan ... and just what will be fully released in the body and even soul.
"Get up and go ', your faith has saved you!"
The faith save the Good Samaritan. But the others did not have faith in Jesus? Of course I do, otherwise the Lord would not have made such grace. The difference between the nine Jewish and the Samaritan is a key point: Thanksgiving!
Jews have received healing, as well Samaritan that also received salvation, healing is much more important.
The Samaritan was not only reinstated in his village, but also in the grace of God, we can say that his faith allowed him to come alive in a stable manner in the Heart of God
The thanksgiving to God then as a fundamental prerogative to be saved. And how are we today give thanks to God for his presence, for his intervention in our lives? With thanksgiving, with the participation in the Mass, which is the main act of thanksgiving for Christ to say: "Thank you Lord that you are there, because I have faith in you, because I feel you inside me and all those who are near me, even those who hate me you're there and I thank you for this! "
The S. Mass then as a privileged moment to say thanks to Jesus Join the Eucharistic Sacrifice, strengthens us and makes us into really worthy to touch the Heart of the Crucified and Risen Lord!
As we appreciate, Christ,
you've admitted to communion with you, we
You make one community around to you, for allowing us to celebrate
your sacrifice and bloody
be ministers of the divine mysteries everywhere
altar, in the confessional, the pulpit,
visits to the sick and imprisoned,
in classrooms ,
the lecture hall,
in the offices where we work.
Be praised, Holy Eucharist!
Hail, Church of God,
who are the priestly people (1 Peter 2, 9),
redeemed by the precious blood of Christ!
you've admitted to communion with you, we
You make one community around to you, for allowing us to celebrate
your sacrifice and bloody
be ministers of the divine mysteries everywhere
altar, in the confessional, the pulpit,
visits to the sick and imprisoned,
in classrooms ,
the lecture hall,
in the offices where we work.
Be praised, Holy Eucharist!
Hail, Church of God,
who are the priestly people (1 Peter 2, 9),
redeemed by the precious blood of Christ!
John Paul II
GOOD Sunday!
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