Catholic Mass Readings and Reflection September 10, 2024

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Catholic Mass Readings and Reflection September 10, 2024

R/. The Lord takes delight in his people

V/. Alleluia

R/. Alleluia

V/. . I chose you from the world that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, says the Lord.

R/. Alleluia.

In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.

1. Many came to listen to Jesus and be healed of their diseases. All those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. All tried to touch him because a curative power came out from him and healed them all.

2. In the present times, how many willingly and eagerly go to Jesus? How many attentively listen to him? How many confide in the healing power of Jesus? How many seek his powerful and curative touch?  Today too many suffer from many unclean spirits. But they do not desire to get rid of them. They do not make an effort to approach Jesus. Therefore, they do not experience any healing. They continue to be sick and troubled.

3. We are called not only to get healing from the Lord and remain content. We are also specially chosen to be his apostles to share the same healing touch with others. Being healed, we need to become apostles of healing and health. We need to restore the lost sanity to the wounded and sick world.

4. In the light of the first reading, this would mean that we belong totally to God, and follow the ways of God and not the ways and standards of the Lord. We strive to live worthy of our special choice by God so that we will receive admittance into the kingdom.

5. We must persevere in righteousness even in times of affliction and unjust treatment by the world. For this, we need to be ever conscious of our privileged call and the immense mercy of God in which we were washed, sanctified, and justified by God through Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

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