DAILY PRAYER

“‘If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’ Jesus answered them, ‘I told you and you do not believe’” (Jn 10:24-27).

A Rosary around the neck and a crucifix on the wall = Catholic. 

It would be easy if our religion were reduced to a few images hung on walls!  Yet we are called to recognize the Presence of Jesus as the Lord and Savior of every soul and to serve our neighbor.

Our Christian faith must be always an internal profession of Jesus as the Christ, who demands fidelity to the fulfillment of His designs and precepts.

Is there a substantial difference between the person who rejects Jesus outright as Liberator and Messiah, and he who claims to accept Him, yet does not live life according to His teachings?  “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven” (Mt 7:21).

Many refuse (even in the face of overwhelming evidence of Jesus’  miracles and actions)   to recognize Him. Yet for naught will it serve us to say we belong to Him, yet at the same time choose not to serve Him.

Reflection and commentary

Psalm 5:9 “Make straight your way before me.” 

St. George, Martyr d. 303 AD, From Lydda, Roman Palestine, Roman Soldier. Like Sebastian, George was a guard in Diocletian’s army. He is immortalized in Saint George and the Dragon.  A wide range of professions, organizations, and disease sufferers including leprosy, plague, herpes, and syphilis call him their patron saint. St. Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr, d. 710 Missionary. He was one of St. Willibrord’s companions in preaching the gospel in Holland and Frisia.

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