Daily Gospel Reflections

In the Gospel reading from Luke 7, John the Baptist has... So beginning today in the Liturgy, we see the unfolding of the Christmas story. Malachi prophesies in regards to the Lord’s messenger, “the messenger of the covenant whom you desire.” This prophesy is fulfilled  in the person of Jesus.... I thank you on your support and pray for a blessed Christmas season for you and yours. Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. Stephen, the first martyr. In  site com maiores detalhes  studying from Acts of the Apostles, we see the story of Stephen’s martyrdom.

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I even have met many people who were preventing their own personal demons, and I know I even have had my moments as properly. Many of us have needed to work via components of our previous, these battling emotional or spiritual confusion and doubt, memories of previous hurts, things which have been stated or carried out. But I don’t know that I even have ever met someone who was possessed, and if I did, I didn’t realize it. I can’t begin to imagine what the disciples felt as they stood with Jesus and had been witnesses to somebody who was possessed.

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When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a big crowd gathered round him, and he stayed close to the ocean. Seeing him he fell at his ft and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, “My daughter is at the level of dying. Please, come lay your arms on her that she may get properly and live.” He went off with him and a big crowd adopted him. When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other aspect, a big crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one of many synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his toes and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, ‘My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her higher and save her life.’ Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him; they were urgent all round him.

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There was clearly a violent streak to Paul earlier than he became a follower of the Lord. He says of himself in today’s first reading that he persecuted the followers of Jesus to the dying, and sent ladies and men to jail in chains. When he left Jerusalem for Damascus, he said, it was with the intention of bringing believers in Jesus again to Jerusalem as prisoners for punishment. After he encountered Christ on the street to Damascus, the violent streak in Paul appears to have disappeared.

However, the artwork of pointing others in the right direction is more subtle than that. John the Baptist did not say to his disciples, ‘Become disciples of Jesus’; he simply said, ‘Look, there's the lamb of God’. Those who level us in the proper direction are sharing with us one thing of their experience and insight. Their sharing serves as a kind of invitation rather than as a command. Not everyone that John pointed within the course of Jesus went on to become a disciple of Jesus.