Key:
What these passages tell us about God
What
these passages tell us to do
What
these passages tell us not to do
Commentary/observations
Reading 1 BAR 1:15-22
During the Babylonian captivity, the
exiles prayed: "Justice
is with the Lord, our God; and we today are flushed with shame, we men
of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem, that we, with our kings and rulers and
priests and prophets, and with our ancestors, have sinned in the Lord's sight
and disobeyed him. We have neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God, nor followed
the precepts which the Lord set before us. From the time the Lord led our
ancestors out of the land of Egypt until the present day, we have been
disobedient to the Lord, our God, and only too ready to disregard his voice.
And the evils and the curse that the
Lord enjoined upon Moses, his servant, at the time he led our ancestors forth
from the land of Egypt to give us the land flowing with milk and honey, cling
to us even today. For we did not heed the voice of the Lord, our God, in all the words of
the prophets whom he sent us, but each one of us went off after the devices of his own wicked heart,
served other gods, and
did evil in the sight of the Lord, our God."
1.God is perfect good. We therefore suffer when we depart from Him/His will/His ways.
2. Status, location, outward
relationship to the things of God will not substitute for true obedience to God.
They are just human things cloaked in a superficial relationship to God. We see
the same dynamic in today’s gospel reading. We too often see the same thing in
today’s church.
3. Instead, God wants true obedience “Truly, obedience is better than sacrifice.” 1 Samuel 15:22. See generally, Wisdom
Principles--True Piety
Responsorial Psalm PS 79:1B-2, 3-5, 8, 9
R. (9) For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver
us.
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. They have given the corpses of your servants as food to the birds of heaven, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth.
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them. We have become the reproach of our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us. O LORD, how long? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
Remember not against us the iniquities of the past; may your compassion quickly come to us, for we are brought very low.
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
Help us, O God our savior, because of the glory of your name; Deliver us and pardon our sins for your name's sake.
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. They have given the corpses of your servants as food to the birds of heaven, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth.
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them. We have become the reproach of our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us. O LORD, how long? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
Remember not against us the iniquities of the past; may your compassion quickly come to us, for we are brought very low.
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
Help us, O God our savior, because of the glory of your name; Deliver us and pardon our sins for your name's sake.
R. For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.
3. We need God to be delivered from the
consequences of our sin. We can’t do it on our own. The good news is that God
loves us and calls us to himself. As
Deuteronomy 4:29 puts it, “ If,
however, from there you start searching once more for Yahweh your God, and if you search for him honestly and
sincerely, you will find him.
Alleluia PS 95:8
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel LK 10:13-16
Jesus said to them,
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done
in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting
in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the
judgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum, 'Will you be exalted to
heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.'
Whoever listens to
you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me
rejects the one who sent me."
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