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Today is Thursday, August 21, 2008.
The church keeps the memorial of Pope Pius X today. He is perhaps best remembered for his encouragement of the frequent reception of holy communion especially by children. By focusing on the bread of heaven, he hoped that it would strengthen and daily energize the people of God with a foundational faith and unity so that Christ’s divine love and presence would be constantly renewed and seen.
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Today’s Readings
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Reading 1: Ez 36:23-28
Thus says the LORD: I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes…you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Hymn from Gather A GIA Publications, Inc. Chicago.
I the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin
My hand will save.
I who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?
Rx Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.
I the Lord of snow and rain.
I have borne my peoples pain.
I have wept for love of them.
They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone,
Give them hears for love alone.
I will speak my word to them.
Whom shall I send? Rx
I, the Lord of wind and flame,
I will tend the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them.
My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide
Till their hearts be satisfied.
I will my life to them.
Whom shall I send? Rx
Gospel: Mt 22:1-14
Jesus spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying,
“The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
We know from the parable that guests refused to come to the wedding feast.
Some of the guests ignored the invitation and went away so the king was enraged…
Go out, therefore, into the main roads, the king said,
and invite to the feast whomever you find…
Many are invited, but few are chosen.”…
Reflection 1
We know that Christ is our spiritual king, savior and redeemer. Some people wanted him crucified, thinking that his kingship would cause them to lose power. After the crucifixion, Christians gained power and the other power became dissipated and lost forever. Christ’s members become enrolled into his kingdom through baptism thereby establishing his spiritual worldwide kingdom of 1/3 of the world’s population.
Christians still have a battle with worldly powers and evil and we will always have that, selfish, individual, wickedness that tries to ignore and muzzle the divine life in human beings. But the victory that Christ gave us by his coming and his presence today not only in people but his church in a mysterious, divine way, is slowly but surely renewing the face of the earth.
Our saint for today Pope Pius X did his part to reinvigorate and renew the image of Christ not only in words but through the church’s sacraments, principally the source and summit of our faith, in the eucharist. It was through the frequent reception of holy communion especially by children that the body of Christ in her people are renewed, reformed, and reinforced with spiritual strength with the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
Holy communion is today “The” banquet feast of the Kingdom of heaven that our Lord talks about in his parable to the chief priests and the elders of the people in his day. In the parable, our Lord says: …the feast is ready…Go out…and invite to the feast whomever you find.
All who are prepared are invited to this sacred wedding feast.
It is a wedding feast because the banquet purpose is to unite each of us
with the Christ. Each and everyday that the feast is celebrated, we proclaim:
When we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus, until you come in glory.
Christ’s mystical and actual presence is the lifeblood of his members. Everyday in the future of the world we fulfill the hope of Pius X and his legacy because we are renewed in Christ and have the opportunity to taste and see how sweet the Lord really is when we seek the Lord with all our strength. Each members has a personal invitation –young and old, children and adults can be re-energized with a source that will strengthen each member of the “Mystical Body” of the church.
We too can participate in new responsibility daily for we get directions, guidelines and a definite plan. Christ’s Spirit dwells in the flesh of Christ.
His Spirit is our awakening and helps us to be aware of his plan. Listen to it carefully. Follow the
Guide, Christ, for he is guiding you by his empowerment.
Our God desires to touch, unite and steep us with his power, and sacred love, so that we may take on what he has destined for us and others.
Don’t go to holy communion unless you want to be fully satisfied. It embodies the full communion of saints with the Lord. Go frequently because God is the delight of all the saints and he hears their intercessions for you when you enter in with the holy communion which is total union with God and his mother, the choruses of angels and all the blessed in heaven.
The more you give, the more you will get precious gifts and graces from this personal union which is a touch of heaven dwelling in your bossom for your edification, wisdom and divine delight to guide you daily.
His spiritual blood provides enormous intimacy within us and to be holy, happy and whole.
Finding yourself among such grandeur you will discover a goldmine rich with precious treasures and virtues untold.
His unlimited divinity remakes you daily as God’s holy child and protects you from anything that will limit yourself as a true member when you partake
of his mystical union and holy communion.
Jesus’ body with soul becomes your access and possession to draw every favor and blessing allowable to serve him with all your body and soul to find
salvation and redemption to fortify you from all dangers and separations.
The final prayer after communion from today’s liturgy is:
Lord our God, we honor the memory of Saint Pius X by sharing the bread of heaven. May it strengthen our faith and unite us in your love. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
For those who want to help “to restore all things in Christ,” we must offer ourselves as a living sacrifice for all as a child of God knowing
we are too weak to really suffer, but nothing prevents us from trusting in our loving Father who has given us everything daily when we allow him to unite
his beloved Son and friends in our body and soul each day. May we breathe his loving fire always and ask his forgiveness for not having loved him enough.
The Calendar contains the daily liturgical readings. It also lists the
bible in full, rosary, stations and saints of the day, martyrs, and
exemplary personages including: Pope Pius X, Victoire Rasoamanarivo,and
Abraham of Smolensk.
There are many more people, events and places that reveal God's wisdom,
beauty, holiness and virtue. They offer us wonderful examples for Christian
living with many more martyrs and consecrated individuals who can help
others and serve the Church by spreading the gospel.
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