At a particular time in our evolution, God chose to enter into our world and a story was born. It has been carefully written, proclaimed and pondered. It possesses the power to awaken a knowing that has always been in us…the ability to experience the God who is, and to know a love that exceeds all others. Msgr. Don was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967. His preaching ministry grew beyond his parish work, and in 1987 began a Sunday radio broadcast that ran for 36 years on WRR in Dallas, TX. He has never tired of pondering the story, and admits the God he knew at his ordination, has little in common with the God he has discovered.Pastoral Reflections institute is non-profit located in Dallas, TX dedicated to enriching your spiritual journey.
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At a particular time in our evolution, God chose to enter into our world and a story was born. It has been carefully written, proclaimed and pondered. It possesses the power to awaken a knowing that has always been in us…the ability to experience the God who is, and to know a love that exceeds all others. Msgr. Don was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967. His preaching ministry grew beyond his parish work, and in 1987 began a Sunday radio broadcast that ran for 36 years on WRR in Dallas, TX. He has never tired of pondering the story, and admits the God he knew at his ordination, has little in common with the God he has discovered.Pastoral Reflections institute is non-profit located in Dallas, TX dedicated to enriching your spiritual journey.
PRI Reflections on Scripture | Thursday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer
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2 weeks ago
PRI Reflections on Scripture | Thursday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel
Luke 11:47-54
The Lord said:
"Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets
whom your fathers killed.
Consequently, you bear witness and give consent
to the deeds of your ancestors,
for they killed them and you do the building.
Therefore, the wisdom of God said,
'I will send to them prophets and Apostles;
some of them they will kill and persecute'
in order that this generation might be charged
with the blood of all the prophets
shed since the foundation of the world,
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
who died between the altar and the temple building.
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!
Woe to you, scholars of the law!
You have taken away the key of knowledge.
You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter."
When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees
began to act with hostility toward him
and to interrogate him about many things,
for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.
Reflection
Once Jesus ministry became public, he made it clear that there was a problem with the scribes and Pharisees. The leaders of the people. And in a way, diplomatically you might say, he was careful to point out things that they were doing wrong. But then he got to the point when his ministry was about an end, and he was tired of holding back.
He wanted to make clear to them how deadly they had become, how much damage they were doing to the people. And so you can see in this passage that it finally gets down to a shouting match, probably between the scribes and Pharisees and Jesus. And they're always trying to trip him up, and they can't. They're losing. And that's when they decided to destroy him.
Closing Prayer
Jesus, often, when we are working at exposing our weaknesses, our shortcomings to ourselves, when we become more and more conscious. It gets a little bit more and more frightening at times if it gets to a point where we see more and more darkness. But unlike the scribes and Pharisees, we don't want to turn that into a rejection of you, the truth teller. And we want to embrace the truth. And we ask this in Jesus ‘name, Amen.
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Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer
At a particular time in our evolution, God chose to enter into our world and a story was born. It has been carefully written, proclaimed and pondered. It possesses the power to awaken a knowing that has always been in us…the ability to experience the God who is, and to know a love that exceeds all others. Msgr. Don was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967. His preaching ministry grew beyond his parish work, and in 1987 began a Sunday radio broadcast that ran for 36 years on WRR in Dallas, TX. He has never tired of pondering the story, and admits the God he knew at his ordination, has little in common with the God he has discovered.Pastoral Reflections institute is non-profit located in Dallas, TX dedicated to enriching your spiritual journey.
