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Lectio: Lk 17.7-10                                                                     

Meditatio: "When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we have been commanded to do’.” Lk 17.10b,c 
     
Oratio: O God, You know we are often concerned with our self-importance but that is not what You want of us.                                                          

I remember Jesus said that when we do what we do, we are simply unprofitable. Why? Because we are only able to do because of God’s grace. Therefore we should not be patting ourselves on our backs. In prayer seek the grace of humility knowing all that we are and all that wedo and all that we  may become, is all the result of God’s power.

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: "unprofitable...done..commanded”; we are often concerned with our own self-importance; when our successes are really attributable to God acting through us. Seek the grace to be a worthy instrument of the Lord’s so that He can accomplish through us what He wishes and leave the bows to Him.      
Tomorrow's reading: Lk 17.11-19