Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - Ministry of Life

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 10/11/2021 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 11:29-32

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the crowd that they will receive no sign except the sign of Jonah, which was a prophetic code for his death and Resurrection.

Everything Jesus said and did, in one way or another, is an anticipation of his Resurrection. The God of Israel, the God of Jesus Christ, is a God of life, a God of the living. He hates death and the ways of death.

He hates sin, which brings about spiritual death; he hates physical illness, which brings about bodily death; he hates corruption, which brings about societal death. And so he battles all these things all the way. Jesus heals blind eyes and deaf ears and crippled limbs; he illuminates darkened minds; he liberates imprisoned souls.

His ministry is a ministry of life, of the triumph of life over death.

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+++While still more people gathered
in the crowd, Jesus said to them,
“This generation is an evil
generation;
it seeks a sign, but no sign will be
given it,
except the sign of Jonah.
Just as Jonah became a sign to the
Ninevites,
so will the Son of Man be to this
generation.
At the judgment
the queen of the south will rise
with the men of this generation
and she will condemn them,
because she came from the ends of
the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and there is something greater than
Solomon here.
At the judgment the men of Nineveh
will arise with this generation
and condemn it,
because at the preaching of Jonah
they repented,
and there is something greater than
Jonah here.”+++