Posted on 07/19/2021 12:53:21 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
SIXTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
MATTHEW 12:38-42
Friends, today in our Gospel some Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign. And Jesus replies, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet,” who was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights.
Jonah was called by God to preach conversion to Nineveh, which is described as an enormously large city. It took, they said, three days to walk through it. I can’t help but think of Nineveh as one of our large, modern cities, a center of all sorts of worldly activity and preoccupation.
What would its conversion look like? A turning back to God as the only enduring good. After hearing the word of Jonah, the Ninevites “proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.” What is the purpose of these ascetic practices? To wean people away from an attachment to worldly pleasures.
Go beyond the mind that you have. Repent. Live as though nothing in this world finally matters. And you will be living in the kingdom of God!
“A turning back to God as the only enduring good.”
This was made possible for so many people by Traditional Mass, now being cancelled.
Posted on 7/19/2021, 3:53:21 PM
Now that's some kind of timing. You can't make this stuff up.
no comprendo -
I give up..
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