DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 , 2015

Reading the Liturgy Thursday, October 29, 2015

Reading 1: Romans 8: 31b-39
If God is for us, who can be against us? God, who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how could he not give us all things together with him? Who will bring any charge against God's elect? God, who justifies them? Who would judge them? Christ Jesus, who has died? Even more than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who intercedes for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." But in all these things we are more than the people who are conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, either above, nor depth, nor any other creature , shall be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalms 109: 21-22,26-27,30-31
Save me according to your unfailing love of God
But thou, O God, my God, act to me by thy name's sake, deliver me because of your unfailing love good! For the poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me;
Help me, O Lord, my God, save me according to thy lovingkindness, so that they know, that thy hand, that thou, O Lord, have done it.
I will very grateful to the Lord with my mouth, and I will praise him in the middle of the crowd. Because he is at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn them.

Gospel: Luke 13: 31-35
At that time some Pharisees came and said to him: "Get away from this place, because Herod wants to kill you." Jesus said to them: "Go and tell that fox, I cast out demons and heal people today and tomorrow, and the third day I will be finished. But today and tomorrow and the next day I had to go on my way, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not. Indeed, your house is left and became silent. But I tell you: You will not see me again until the time you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! "
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Afterthought
This news we often hear, the husband and wife, Siti Suta and has many years of marriage, divorce. Sister Centilwati was already 10 years as a nun, would again be shaken out. That priest was nearly 9 years Sibukwanto ordained, again the crisis and wanted to get out. Brother Gojegana already undergone Year Pastoral, now call was floundering wanted out.
Call life crisis or a crisis of faith can hit anyone, including us. But when we reflect on the words of St. Paul in the first reading today with a clear heart and prayed in front of the Cross of Christ will surely another. St. Paul's words are so strong, full of confidence and hit up our hearts. What we fear in this life? Conflict, incompatibility, infidelity of spouse, economic difficulties, failure to work? It certainly can shake us. But whether it be a sufficient reason to separate us with Christ? His son just handed over by God to us, how He does not confer everything with his children that to us?


Items to contemplation.
Life crisis of faith and the call is always rooted in the most fundamental point, our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Our fidelity to the priestly vocation, monasticism, celibacy for the kingdom of God or a family is possible only when we wake up we have never been separated from the love of Christ. Life crisis calls typically associated with this case and when people are so emotional, people are choosing to leave his calling. However, if the person in crisis that would stare at the Cross of Christ, the love of his love that never stops, how much we are willing to lose from the crush of trouble this crisis? God is not going to strengthen us and He is more than all that? not considered it as a motivation for me

Prayer.
Dear God, do not let me be discouraged if my love of neighbor is not considered but make the experience not considered it as a motivation for me to always do love. Amen