28th Sunday of the Year (C): 2 Kings 5:14-17

Sunday Readings for Your Reflection: Liturgical Years 2011 (A), 2012 (B), and 2013 (C)

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Liturgical readings
2 Kings 5:14-17
Psalm 98
2 Timothy 2:8-13
Luke 17:11-19

The Samaritan came back praising God in a loud voice.



On his journey to Jerusalem
Jesus passed along the borders
of Samaria and Galilee.


As he was entering a village,
ten lepers met him.


Keeping their distance,
they raised their voices


and said,


"Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"


When he saw them,
he responded,


"Go and show yourselves to the priests."


On their way there
they were cured.


One of them,
realizing that he had been cured,
came back praising God in a loud voice.


He threw himself on his face
at the feet of Jesus
and spoke his praises.


This man was a Samaritan.


Jesus took the occasion to say,


"Were not all ten made whole?
Where are the other nine?
Was there no one to return and give thanks to God
except this foreigner?"


He said to the man,


"Stand up
and go your way;
your faith has been your salvation."

Scripture verses from the readings:
"Naaman's flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy." (2 Kings 5)
"He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel." (Psalm 98)
"If we hold out to the end we shall also reign with him." (2 Timothy 2)

27th Sunday of the Year (C)

Sunday Readings for Your Reflection: Liturgical Years 2011 (A), 2012 (B), and 2013 (C)

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Liturgical readings
Hebrews 1:2-3; 2:2-4
Psalm 95
2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14
Luke 17:5-10

"We have done no more than our duty."



The apostles said to the Lord,


"Increase our faith."


and he answered:


"If you had faith
the size of a mustard seed,
you could say to this sycamore,


'Be uprooted
and
transplanted into the sea,'


and it would obey you.


"If one of you had a servant
plowing or herding sheep
and he came in from the fields,
would you say to him,


'Come and sit down at table'?


Would you not rather say,
'Prepare my supper.
Put on your apron
and wait on me
while I eat and drink.
You can eat and drink afterward'?


Would he be grateful
to the servant who was only
carrying out his orders?


It is quite the same
with you who hear me.


When you have done
all you have been commanded to do,
say,
'We are useless servants.
We have done no more
than our duty.'"

Scripture verses from the readings:
"Let us kneel before the Lord who made us...for he is our God." (Psalm 95)
"With the strength which comes from God bear your share of the hardship which the gospel entails." (2 Timothy)
"The just man, because of his faith, shall live." (Hebrews 1)

27th Sunday of the Year (C): Hebrews 1:2-3, 2:2-4

Sunday Readings for Your Reflection: Liturgical Years 2011 (A), 2012 (B), and 2013 (C)

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Liturgical readings
Hebrews 1:2-3; 2:2-4
Psalm 95
2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14
Luke 17:5-10

"The vision still has its time and will not disappoint...wait for it."



How long, O Lord?


I cry for help
but you do not listen!


I cry out to you,
"Violence!"
but you do not intervene.


Why do you let me see ruin;
why must I look at misery?


Destruction and violence
are before me;
there is strife,
and clamorous discord.


Then the Lord answered me
and said:


Write down the vision
clearly upon the tablets,
so that one can read it readily,


For the vision still has its time,
presses on to fulfillment,
and will not disappoint;


If it delays, wait for it,
it will surely come,
it will not be late.


The rash man has not integrity;
but the just man,
because of his faith,
shall live.


Scripture quotes from the readings:
"Let us kneel before the Lord who made us...for he is our God." (Psalm 95)
"With the strength which comes from God bear your share of the hardship which the gospel entails." (2 Timothy)
"The just man, because of his faith, shall live." (Hebrews 1)