12.12.13

Lectio:  Mt 11.16-19                                                                                                                

Meditatio: “For the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” Mt 11.19

Oratio: O God, You know how fickle we are, yet You continue to reach out to us for You so much want all of us to journey safely back to You.

I remember in the fullness of time You sent John the Baptist to us but he was rejected for he was seen as to radical and he was dubbed “possessed by a demon” and then Your Son came and extended compassion and mercy to all and especially to sinners and He, too, was rejected. But Your wisdom would be vindicated as His disciples would establish Your kingdom here on earth and make it possible for future generations to journey successfully to the kingdom.

Grant that I may rejoice in Your daughter, Mary and our Blessed Mother, this day, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, for She has been the mother of the Americas ever since her appearance on Tepeyac Hill in Mexico this very day in 1531. May I also have recourse to her.

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: "friend...sinners”: in their faulty view of the world the religious leaders believed that sinners should be cast out and not ministered to; yet they are the very ones  for whom God’s Son came; in prayer thank God for being so kind and merciful and for the grace to allow ourselves to be used as instruments of His mercy and love.

Tomorrow's reading: Mt 17.9a, 10-13