10.29.13

Lectio:  Lk 13.22-30                                                                                                        

Meditatio:”Someone asked him [Jesus], ‘Lord will only a few be saved’?” Lk 13.22

Oratio: O God, it Your will that all be saved and You sent Your Son to make that possible, but it does require a response by us.

I remember Jesus was asked whether only a few would be saved and His response was to try to enter by the narrow gate; meaning don’t think you can just do nothing; but rather as He told us elsewhere, He is the way, the truth and the life.

Grant that I may be ever mindful that Jesus’s Way is the Way of Selfless Love and seek the grace to live with this as my guiding principle and I will live by His truth and I will come to  eternal life.
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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: "few...saved”; salvation is not a number game but living by the Way Jesus asks of us; in doing so one will reach heaven. In prayer respond to the grace of living as Jesus asks, so that one day one will be with the Prince of Peace forever.
   
Tomorrow's reading: Lk 13.31-35