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    Maryknoll Society - Aug 25 at 4:41 AM
     
     
    “It’s now or never”
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    Dear Deacon Nguyen,

    Today’s reflection is the final one in our Kingdom living series. Allow me to review what Kingdom living is and what it is not.

    It’s about being poor in spirit—humble, admitting we need God. It’s about investing in godly things—making Jesus our treasure. And it’s about not responding to evil with more evil, but rather with active compassion.
    “And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
    ~ Luke 13:29-30
    Jesus teaches the most important lesson about His Kingdom in today’s verse. If we want that great prize at the end of our journey here, we must acknowledge who He is and live as He lived. Many will come from all corners of the world to partake of the feast at the Kingdom table in the “new heaven” that is described in the Book of Revelation. The “chosen ones” and those who sit in places of power will be last, and the Gentiles, the little ones and the downtrodden will be first.

    If we seek spiritual poverty, realizing our weaknesses and need for God, we live in the Father’s Kingdom. If we serve God and not money, we are Kingdom dwellers. And if we stop fighting fire with fire, but rather use “weapons of love”, we reside in God’s Kingdom.

    Dinh, our challenge now is to live every day as Kingdom dwellers on the inside God’s of will, because “...those he predestined he also called…those he called he also justified…those he justified he also glorified.” (Romans 8:30) We are predestined, called, justified and glorified. Now, let’s go live like it!
    Father Raymond J. Finch, M.M. Sincerely yours in Christ,
    Father Raymond J. Finch, M.M.
    Prayer for 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
    Your Kingdom come, Lord,
    to all who hunger for justice
    that Your power may be revealed.
    Your Kingdom come, Lord,
    to all who thirst for truth
    that Your presence may be proclaimed.
    Your Kingdom come, Lord,
    to all who yearn for mercy
    that Your name may be praised
    by everyone everywhere.

    Even in the midst of suffering and evil
    yet will I offer a sacrifice of praise
    knowing that the smallest prayer
    is heard above the clamor of war
    and the smallest act of kindness
    echoes to try heavens
    in the courts of God
    the Most High.

    May Your Will be done on earth
    this day and every day of my life
    that I may join with all Your angels
    and saints in singing Your praise
    so all people on earth may pray
    one prayer with one voice:
    Your Kingdom come!

    Amen.
    ~ Father Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M.
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