11.19.13

Lectio:   Lk 19.11-28                                      

Meditatio: “His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce ‘We do not want this man to be our king’.” Lk 19.14
           
Oratio: O God, how ironic and sad! You sent Your only Son to us to be our King and Savior but instead of accepting Him we rejected Him.

I remember Jesus told a parable about a man whom I sense Jesus referring to Himself, who was  seeking to be their king but was being rejected by the His own people - sadly it would become a true event to the great loss for the Chosen people.            

Grant that I may be ever enlightened by faith and see things and people as God wants me to see for otherwise, the very One whom He sent, I may miss and in missing Him, missing the message of the One who sent Him.                    

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: "citizens...despised"; citizens - members of your own civil society; despised means to hate; Jesus’ fellow Jews rejected Him - but not the anawin but the religious leaders and those allied with them.  In prayer seek the Lord and He will be found as an ancient prayer asserts and we will find Him if we believe and sincerely seek with the light of faith and with His grace.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 19.41-44