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Monday, November 3, 2008, St. Martin de Porres
Philippians 2:1-4, Psalm 131, Luke 14:12-14
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WHAT IF JESUS IS RIGHT AGAIN?
"When you have a reception, invite beggars and the crippled, the lame and
the blind." —Luke 14:13
The welfare system is not working. Thank God it's keeping people alive.
However, it's not setting them free. It may even be enslaving and
conditioning people in a generational cycle.
The nuclear family isn't working. Thank God for marital faithfulness in a
society of broken promises, broken families, and broken hearts. Yet the
nuclear family is not thriving. It is struggling merely to survive.
What if the nuclear family became an extended family — even a Christian
community? What if welfare was not a government program? What if family
hospitality took the place of welfare? What if Jesus intends today's
Gospel reading to be taken literally? What if Jesus is right again about
loving the poor, offering hospitality, being family, and living life?
Are you trying to share meals with "beggars and the crippled, the lame and
the blind"? (Lk 14:13) Are you caring for the poor in a hands-on way? Are
you caring for your brothers and sisters in Christ in a practical way?
If we lived in Christian community as described in Acts of the Apostles,
maybe we would do the acts of the apostles in feeding and freeing the
poor. Jesus is right.
Prayer: Father, may my love for the poor open me to living in practical
Christian community.
Promise: "Hope in the Lord, both now and forever." —Ps 131:3
Praise: St. Martin, a humble servant of his Lord, was so one with the Body
of Christ that he gave his all to serve the "poorest of the poor."
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