Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
November 27, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112724.cfm
Remain faithful until death,
Revelation 2:10
and I will give you the crown of life.
.In Luke 21, Jesus exhorts his disciples to remain faithful. Then he describes how fraught with difficulties that faithfulness will be: denouncement, imprisonment, false judgment, disavowal by family and friends, hatred, and even death. What is so terrifying about the Gospel that it evokes these responses in its enemies? What is so powerful about the Gospel that it will sustain its believers even through such trials?
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
I ask myself, “Have I ever really suffered anything for the sake of the Gospel”? What would that suffering look like? Would it not be setting aside my selfishness for the sake of the neighbor – even the unloved neighbor? If we dare to do that, we will surely suffer.
Prose: from Walter Bruggemann in “God’s Neighborly Economy”
“Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29)
The Bible is unflinching and unambiguous in its identification of the neighbor: widow, orphan, immigrant, the poor, lepers, the blind, deaf, lame … all those without viable resources or reliable advocacy.
Music: Take All the Lost Home – Joe Wise
Lavish Mercy 