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Thursday, October 16, 2008, St. Hedwig, St. Mary Margaret Alacoque
Ephesians 1:1-10, Psalm 98, Luke 11:47-54
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SIN-SEARED
"The Lord has made His salvation known." —Psalm 98:2
Jesus accused the people of His time of standing behind the murders
committed by their fathers (Lk 11:48). Their fathers murdered the
prophets, who were innocent and holy messengers of God. In doing so, they
rejected God, Who sent the prophets (cf Mt 21:33-46). Jesus maintained
that His generation would "have to account for the blood of all the
prophets shed since the foundation of the world" (Lk 11:50). The reaction
to Jesus' convicting statements was "fierce hostility" (Lk 11:53). This
resulted in the murder of murders committed against Jesus, the all-holy,
perfectly innocent Prophet of prophets.
Sin is epidemic, generational, and self-perpetuating in that it blinds us
to sin. Sin is also murderous even to the point of deicide itself, that
is, to the point of murdering God. Therefore, when we sin, we are trapped.
By our power, we can't do anything to get out of sin. We would die in our
sins (see Jn 8:24) and be damned but for Jesus. Jesus saved us. He
intervened and broke the power of sin in our life. "It is in Christ and
through His blood that we have been redeemed and our sins forgiven, so
immeasurably generous is God's favor to us" (Eph 1:7-8).
We must thank Jesus always for saving us from sin. We must avoid at all
costs falling into sin, and we must tell a sinful world about the only
Savior from sin.
Prayer: Jesus, may I go to Confession and let You wash away my sin.
Promise: "God has given us the wisdom to understand fully the mystery, the
plan He was pleased to decree in Christ, to be carried out in the fullness
of time: namely, to bring all things in the heavens and on earth into one
under Christ's headship." —Eph 1:9-10
Praise: St. Mary Margaret was blessed to be the first to see the power of
Christ's forgiving love through the image of His Most Sacred Heart.
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