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Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest

January 7th, 2010

“Jesus “Three-fold Ministry”
Matt. 4 : 12 - 17, 23 – 25

Matthew presents Jesus’ three-fold ministry – teaching, preaching and healing. Synagogues became important places of worship and study. People meet in the Synagogues on the Sabbath for prayer, readings from Scripture. Jesus, Himself was asked to do a reading and give an explanation on it. Teaching and preaching Jesus helps the people to get a deeper understanding of the spirit of the law. Jesus heals the sick and He has the power to overcome evil and dispel darkness, and that is a manifestation of God’s spirit present in Him. He is the revealer of the Word, He is the Word made flesh. God is present in the liturgy – in the Word of the solemn rite and in the communion of people.

Prayer


Lord you are compassionate towards all your creatures. Give me that same love and concern, and let it direct my every decision.

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Just a Thought

Hope

John XXIII, referred to as the ‘caretaker Pope’, realising the widening gap between the Church and the world of his day, wrote: “An old world is disappearing. Another one is being formed, and with this I am trying to conceal some good seed or other that will have its springtime, even if it is somewhat delayed, and comes after I’m dead.”

Thomas Merton writes: “One must not give in to defeatism and despair: just as one must hope for life in a mortal illness which has been declared incurable.”

Even when dark clouds surround us, even when everything appears to be falling apart, we must continue to believe for a better future. Whatever the problem, there is a way forward.

So, my hope is in God alone because I believe in him; this is my faith. It is in him I put my faith and that faith, my belief in God’s love for me and all his creation, is the bedrock in which like an anchor, I put my hope. Together with that hope and faith is my love and fidelity in responding to that God in whom I live and move and have my being. In him I place my hope.

“Hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul” (Heb 6:15-19).

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