Wednesday, July 03, 2019

God lovingly calls us to Himself and other believers. We should help others see that love (Readings for July 3, 2019 annotated) (Lectionary: 593)

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What these scriptures tell us about God
What these scriptures tell us to do
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Commentary

Todays readings call to mind the wonderful love described in paragraph 1 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness, freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.


Reading 1 Ephesians 2:19-22  
Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstoneThrough him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lordin him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 117
R.Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
Praise the LORD, all you nations; glorify him, all you peoples!
R. 
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
For steadfast is his kindness for us,and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.
R. 
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

Alleluia John 20:29  
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You 
believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me, says the Lord;blessed are those who have not seen, but still believe!
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel John 20:24-29 
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord."

But Thomas said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands
and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."

Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you."

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe."

Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus said to him, "Have you come to believe because you have seen me?Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."


What these scriptures tell us about God
You are no longer strangers and sojourners
you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God

Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.
Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord
in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
steadfast is his kindness for us
the fidelity of the LORD endures forever. 
Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you
My Lord and my God!

What these scriptures tell us to do
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News
Praise the LORD
glorify him
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News
believe in me
blessed are those who have not seen, but still believe
do not be unbelieving, but believe
come to believe because you have seen me 
Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.

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