10.03.13

Lectio:  Lk 10.13-16                                                
                     
Meditatio: “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.” Lk 10.13

Oratio: O God, You have made it clear that You want us to repent.            

I remember Jesus told the major towns in which He called the people to repent that it would go badly for them if they did not for they had seen great signs of His authority and they ought to  listene.

Grant that I may be ever mindful of God’s call to repent and for the grace to use the sacrament of Reconciliation as it is the best way to acknowledge my sinfulness and to experience God’s forgiveness.

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 "Woe...mighty deeds...repented”; Jesus through His miracles gave clear signs of His authority and those who failed to do respond to His call to repent would have a fate worst than the people of the pagan towns of old. In prayer seek the grace to daily examine my conscience and to the extent that there is anything in my life that shows I am in need of repentance to immediately ask God’s forgiveness and help to change and then go to the Sacrament of Penance and obtain the grace to amend.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 10.17-24