Prayer Prompt before reading LK 17:11-19 Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray well, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and Son are so that I may know who I am.
“HAS NONE BUT THIS FOREIGNER RETURNED TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD?” THEN HE SAID TO HIM, “STAND UP AND GO; YOUR FAITH HAS SAVED YOU.” LK 17:11-19
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Today, Jesus shows us again the relationship between faith and salvation, gratitude, and what can happen when we fall to the feet of Jesus and ask for His mercy. We are all lepers symbolically with sin. We have inherited a mangled and disfigured nature. We wake each day with a leaning toward sin or the easy way.
We need God’s mercy, none of us are different in this area of our lives. The sad thing is we treat others differently because they look different on the outside or they are mentally or physically disabled. There is no normal. ( Watch the movies “Wonder” or “Radio”) We are all in this together trying to get to the same place. We are created to love and serve with compassion and accept others for who they are.
Every one of us is created out of God’s love and has dignity. Every one of us is God’s handiwork and His masterpiece. We matter and have value. No matter how many times we sin, how much we suffer, or how much we are ridiculed we never lose our value because we are made in the image and likeness of God.
He took care of those things on the cross a long time ago and continues to do His salvific work from the cross and through the Holy Spirit at every Mass and in the sacraments. Be thankful for who you are and what God has blessed you with. Love yourself because you are made in God’s image and likeness.
We are all blessed with every spiritual blessing from the heavens through Jesus’s redemptive blood. God is so powerful and almighty it would have only taken one drop of blood to save all of humanity, but He chose much much more for us in His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.
Be the first to sit with a “foreigner” at lunch and befriend a person with a disability. This is who Jesus would be hanging out with. Today, fall to the feet of Jesus, ask for His mercy recognizing you have faults and accepting yourself as a sinner, come back to Him and thank Him for His forgiveness and cleansing you. Then, live in the joy of salvation now and in heaven.
Today’s challenge: Sit with someone that is not in your friendship group at lunch today. Fall at the feet of Jesus at the crucifix in your room at home and ask God for mercy and thank Him for the opportunity. Cooperate and open yourself up more to God’s grace, mercy, hope, love and friendship to be holy and sin less!
Thanksgiving Challenge: Put down your electronics and help someone. Take care of those who take care of you. Spend intentional prayer time thanking God for all He has given you. Receive the Eucharist which means “Thanksgiving”. Write little notes of gratitude and put them on family members’ pillows or just tell them thank you for everything they do for you. Eat a lot of turkey and watch football! 🙂
I want to send out a special thank you to all of those who have ever read my reflections, commented, subscribed, or stopped me to tell me that you like what I do. I appreciate every one of you and I am thankful for this gift to teach and try to inspire souls to fall in love with Jesus Christ. It is truly a blessing that keeps on giving more and more the older I get! God Bless, love you!
God, thank you for this gift, it is a blessing and you never cease to amaze me with your humility and generosity! It’s unfair, not practical, not economical, radical, and overwhelming love! I am an unworthy servant, but with your love and grace anything is possible!
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
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