10.02.13

Lectio:  Lk 10.1-12                                                 
                     
Meditatio: “Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you, go out into the streets and say, ‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you’. Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.” Lk 10.10-11

Oratio: O God, how graciously You treat us and how patient You are with us

I remember Jesus told His disciples to say to those towns that do not welcome them that even the dust from the feet they shake off  - a clear sign that His disciples had rejected them  BUT God has not for they were also  told to say that the Kingdom of God is at hand - thus giving them something very important consider and hopefully motivate them to reform their lives.

Grant that I may be ever mindful of God’s patience with us in our journey back to Him and take to heart that the Kingdom of God is at hand and strive to act accordingly.

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

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect on "dust clings...shake off”; a clear sign in the ANE that you did not want any part of the town that did not welcome you; in prayer seek the grace to be ever mindful of that the kingdom of God is at hand and strive to put into practice the Great Law of Love for that is the response that Jesus wants of us and He will bring us to the eternal kingdom and we will always be welcomed by Him.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 10.13-16