1.17.14

Lectio: Mk 2.13-17                                                                                         

Meditatio: “Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that he [Jesus] was eating with sinners and tax collectors and said to his disciples, ‘Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners’?” Mk 2.16

Oratio: O God, You sent Your Son to bring the Good News to all and not to just the elite.
        
I remember when Jesus called a tax collector to be one of His disciples and then ate with him and his friends,  the religious elite were scandalized because they considered it wrong to associate with sinners. But Jesus did not!

Grant that I may remember that the Good News is meant for all and I never should withhold my duty which flows from my baptism to spread the Good News. I must do so if I wish to please and give honor and glory to God and be true to Him as His child..

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: "scribes..why”; the scribes were part of the religious elite of their day. They were the official interpreters of the Scriptures in Jesus’ time and they enforced man-made rules in what was known as the Holiness Code. Among other things this Code proscribed associating with sinners if you wish to remain holy. Wonderfully, Jesus showed us by His actions that it what our needs are and not what people think we are, is why all are the beneficiaries of the Good News. May I always give praise and thanks to God for being so magnanimous.

Tomorrow's reading: Jn 1.29-34