DEVOTIONAL WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Reading the Liturgy 11 November 2015
PES. Martinus, Bishop

Reading 1: Wis 6: 2-11
O kings who ruled the crowd and boast because of your people, incline your ear. For the LORD has given you the power, and the Lord will be exalted origin rule. He will examine all your work and dive your plan. Because actually you just servants of His kingdom. So if you do not govern properly, nor keep the law, or not valid according to the will of God,
He will come to you with a powerful and fast. The court that will inevitably befall his officials. Indeed, the subordinates can be forgiven for mercy, but the mastery will severely tortured.
God Almighty will not back down to anyone, and the greatness of people ignored him. Both small and large made by him,
and maintained his all in the same way. But towards the mastery will take hard examination. So these words are upon you, princes. You should learn to be wise
and do not fall. For those who maintain that the holy scriptures
will be purified as well, and that in the event that the educated will have a defense.
So let desire and longing for words, then you will be educated.
Thus saith the Lord.

Psalms: Psalm 82: 3-4.6-7
Arise, O God, judge the earth.
* "Give justice to the weak and the orphan, Defend the rights of the poor and the needy! Rescue the weak and needy,
deliver them from the hand of the wicked. "
* I myself have said, "You are gods, all of you are children of the Most High. But ye shall die like men, and like a magnifying you would be dead."

Gospel: Luke 17: 11-19
On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along the urban Samaria and Galilee. When he entered a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance and shouted, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" Jesus then looked at them and said, "Go, show yourself to the priest." And while on the way, they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice, and fell at the feet of Jesus
and give thanks to Him. The man was a Samaritan. Then Jesus said, "Were not ten cleansed?
Where are the other nine that? Are there not among them
back to glorify God except this foreigner? "
Then he said to him, "Stand up and go, your faith has saved thee."
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Afterthought
Parents many times to teach young children to say "thank you" when you receive something, when the child receives bread from the hands and silent, parents will say, "Come on, say what?" Then the little boy said "Thanks "
If since our childhood we have been taught ber thank you, why now to say "thank you" just difficult. Ten lepers in today's Gospel being one example, how hard people are grateful and thank kash ber. Of the ten that only one returned and air thanks. One man alone was a Samaritan, meaning the so-called infidels, does not know God. Mungkinjuga not "air school", not educated, although once he actually ungrateful.
One person who knows thanks Samaritan was a byword for all of us. We are not infidels, we are believers. However, easy is our mouth to say thank you? Is not it easier to say aspersion aspersion or petition - the petition, which once granted also forget ber thank you? Attitudes or behaviors that must be trained, socialized and practiced, not just enough to know. When only a stop on the "know", so will stop in the brain alone. Lips and our mouths becomes difficult to say it. Let us find for this day, to whom we should ber thank you.

Items to contemplation
Jesus came into the world to liberate, helpful and happy man, therefore if one is coming to him, Jesus memimta only one condition alone or without asking Jesus to grant the request that person. Conditions are given very easily, because there is something more important than that, Jesus wants us to believe in Him. The attitude of faith in Jesus brings a major positive impact for the person and for the life together. Because, it means we accept Jesus as Lord and received the entire teachings.

Prayer
O God, teach us to express our gratitude by sharing the love of neighbor. Amen.