7.03.13 Lectio: Mt 9.1-8

7.03.13

Lectio: Mt 9.1-8                                 

Meditatio: "Which is easier, to day, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?” Mt 9.5

Oratio: "O God, Your Son made it obvious that He was divine.

I remember that He first forgave the paralytic his sins before curing him so show that He  was divine for the religious elite considered His doing so a blasphemy.

Grant that I may always give praise, worship and love to Jesus for He is Your Son and our brother and we are greatly blest for all He has and continues to do for us.

I ask all things in the name of Jesus who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplation: spend a few moments in silence and reflect on the selected passage and its import for you.

Operatio: reflect on "blaspheme”; to attribute a power that is God’s alone to a lesser being; fortunately Jesus was not only a man but also God and therefore His forgiving sins was not a blaspheme; nor when a priest forgives sins in confession, he does not blaspheme for he does it in the name of God; in prayer thank God for the providing us with the sacrament of Reconciliation so that we have a sure and certain way of obtaining forgiveness of our sins.

Tomorrow's reading: Mt 9.9-13