11.03.13

Lectio:  Lk 14.12-14                                          

Meditatio:”blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteousness.” Lk 14.14

Oratio: O God, You want us to be charitable and You will repay us more than we have a right to expect.

I remember Jesus told His dinner host to invite guests who could not return the invite such as the poor; and the host will get a repayment in the resurrected life - what a reward for simply being generous towards the needy.

Grant that I may respond to Jesus’ call to be charitable and allow Him to repay your generosity in the way He deems best - either now or hereafter/

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: "inability..,repay...repaid...resurrection”: Jesus urges us to be charitable to those who cannot repay and if we do, He will see that we receive repayment in the next life; the only repayment that is everlasting and worthwhile - how generous of our God for so little on our part.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 14.15-24