MUSED WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2015

Wednesday, September 30, 2015
PW S. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church

First Reading Neh 2: 1-8
In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,
when it became my job to provide the wine, I lift up the wine and serve it to the king. Because I looked sad, which is unprecedented in the presence of the king, the king said to me, "Why is your face gloomy, even though you are not sick? You certainly sad heart." I then became very scared. I replied to the king, "Long live the king forever! How my face will not be sad, when the city where my fathers tomb ruins and its gates are consumed with fire?" The king said to me, "So, what do you want?" I pray to the God of heaven,
then replied to the king, "If the king is considered good and pleasing to your servant, send your servant to Judah, to the city of ancestral graves servant, these servants that rebuild it." Then the king said to me, being the queen sitting beside him, "How long are you going to go, and when you'll be back?" And the king is pleased sent me after I call him a period of time. I then said to the king, "If the king is so inclined, let him give me letters to the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass
until I arrive in Judah. Also a letter for Asaph, the park superintendent King,
so he gave me timber for beams for the gates in the fortress of the temple, for the city wall and for the house to which I go. "And the king granted, because the hand of my God upon me.

Psalm Ps 137: 1-6
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee.
* By the rivers of Babylon, there we wept when we remembered Zion.
On the willows where we hung our harps.
* For there our captors demanded of us songs, and those who persecute us mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
* How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand dry!
* Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not make Jerusalem above my chief joy!

Gospel reading Luke 9: 57-62
On one occasion, when Jesus and His disciples were on the way,
came a midway, said to Jesus, "I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place
to lay His head. "And to others, Jesus said," Follow me. "
The man said, "Let me go first, and bury my father." Jesus answered, "Let the dead bury the dead, but you go,
and wartakanlah Kingdom of God everywhere. "And another one said," Lord, I will follow You, but first let me say goodbye to my family. "But Jesus said," Anyone who is ready to plow,
but looking back, it is not feasible for the kingdom of God. "
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Afterthought
People who follow Jesus will indeed earn salvation, That requires a total attitude in surrendering as well as in determining the life affirming that He is the source of salvation.
Attachment to wealth and relationships with others supported by egoism within yourself to be defeated. Not me who primarily determine his followers would be what kind, but He did choose. For it is necessary openness of heart and mind that would be guided by the Spirit.
How do our lives as His followers? What sort of attachment that we have to remove in order to become worthy of His followers? If we are honest, we may feel we have not deserved to be followers, but in the course of time, when we become His disciples, Jesus himself is with us to make us able to break away from all attachment, then continue to live in the name of Jesus, in the process of improvement themselves to achieve true salvation.

Items to Contemplation
Someone once told me why he was interested in becoming a priest. Actually, from the beginning he felt the call. But he tried to avoid. The delay was he doing to her work. But it turns out the call was strong. He could no longer resist it and then decide themselves following the path of the call.
When the work God has never stopped doing his work. He will continue to run his work to the success. So if we believe in God, we must follow His will. No matter how strong our refusal in time we will submit to His will.

Prayer:
God that people would you choose to follow your will and be ready to run perutusanMu. Amen.