11.29.13

Lectio: Mt 4.18-22                                           

Meditatio: “He [Jesus] said to them, ‘Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men’.”
Mt 4.19                       

Oratio: O God, Your Son chose as His first disciples, uneducated but hard workers - fishermen; but they would become what He said they would be if they followed Him.

I remember Jesus’s first disciples were Peter and his brother, Andrew and His next two were James and John - all four were fishermen; all four would become fishers of men and very good at it and through them He established the Kingdom of God on earth.

Grant that I may ever grateful for the oneness and courage of those first disciples for through them all have benefitted down through the ages. May I do my part to spread the Good News, too.

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: "come...fishers”; an invite not a command; to capture others not by the  hook but by the Word; in prayer lift up all those through whom our faith in Jesus was transmitted to us; and seek the grace to continue the role of ‘fishers’ so that others may come to know what a great God we have in Jesus; accept Him as their Lord and Savior and one day obtain the fruit of their faith - eternal life in the Kingdom of God.

Tomorrow's reading: Mt 24.37-44