Sunday – Feast of Pentecost!
\nCommentary from Navarre Commentary series on Luke 8 where they laughed when Jesus said the dead girl was just sleeping…<\/p>\n
\u201cThey laughed at him\u201d: when someone has no faith in God\u2019s omnipotence, he tries to measure everything by his own limited understanding and easily fails to grasp supernatural realities: instead of reacting humbly, he tries to make fun of them. St Paul is referring to someone in this position when he says “The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned\u201d (1 Cor 2:14).<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some who pass through life as through a tunnel, without every understanding the splendour, the security and the warmth of the sun of faith\u201d (J. Escriv\u00e1)<\/p>\n
Prayer:\u00a0 O Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, Who art everywhere present and fillest all things, Treasury of good things and Giver of life: Come and dwell in us, and cleanse us of all impurity, and save our souls, O Good One.<\/p>\n
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Monday 4\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cWhatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.<\/span> <\/span> 5\u00a0<\/sup>And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city,<\/span> shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 6\u00a0<\/sup>So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n Commentary:\u00a0This is the first mission the Apostles were sent on. Jesus wants them to gain experience which will stand to them in the mission they will have after he ascends into heaven. He charges them to do what he himself did \u2014 preach the Kingdom of God and heal the sick.<\/p>\n Prayer:\u00a0 We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen. Tuesday 7\u00a0<\/sup>Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, <\/span> 8\u00a0<\/sup>and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. <\/span> 9\u00a0<\/sup>Herod said, \u201cJohn I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?\u201d So he sought to see Him.<\/span><\/p>\n Commentary:\u00a0Except for the Sadducees, all Jews believed in the resurrection of the dead, as revealed by God in Sacred Scripture (cf. Ezek 37:10; Dan 12:2 and 2 Mac 7:9). It was also commonly believed by Jews at the time that Elijah or some other prophet had to appear again (cf. Deut 19:15). This may have been why Herod began to think that perhaps John had come back to life (Mt 14:1-2 and Mk 6:14-16), particularly since Jesus worked miracles and people thought this power was the prerogative of those who had risen from the dead. And yet he was aware that Christ was working miracles even before John died (cf. Jn 2:23); therefore, at first, he was disconcerted. Later, as the fame of Christ\u2019s miracles spread, to have some sort of adequate explanation he decided, as the other Gospels tell us, that John must indeed have risen.<\/p>\n Prayer:\u00a0 Holy angel of the Lord by guardian, pray to God for me.<\/p>\n Wednesday 10\u00a0<\/sup>And the apostles, when they had returned, told Him all that they had done. Then He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. <\/span> 11\u00a0<\/sup>But when the multitudes knew it,<\/i> they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing. <\/span> 12\u00a0<\/sup>When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, \u201cSend the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 13\u00a0<\/sup>But He said to them, \u201cYou give them something to eat.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And they said, \u201cWe have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.\u201d <\/span> 14\u00a0<\/sup>For there were about five thousand men.<\/span><\/p>\n Then He said to His disciples, \u201cMake them sit down in groups of fifty.\u201d<\/span> <\/span> 15\u00a0<\/sup>And they did so, and made them all sit down.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nLuke 9:1\u00a0\u00a0Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. <\/span> 2\u00a0<\/sup>He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. <\/span> 3\u00a0<\/sup>And He said to them, \u201cTake nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n*Sub Tuum Praesidium<\/p>\n
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