Prayer Prompt before reading LK 15:1-10 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 is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“THIS MAN WELCOMES SINNERS AND EATS WITH THEM.” LK 15:1-10
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 teaches us that God is not very economical,” says Bishop Barron. Who in their right mind would leave 99 to gain 1? God’s grace can’t be earned, its a gift and He can use it how He wants. How does a sinner receive this grace?
Allowing Jesus into your boat, recognizing our sinfulness, humbly approaching the One who is love, mercy, and justice. As Bishop Barron says, “The Gospel is about detachment”. We are called to repent and change our lives by looking at life in a completely different way. We are called to be holy.
Do we desire holiness? When we take steps to avoid the near occasion of sin by coming to God’s mercy and choosing His Will with our effort until the sin is no longer a part of our life. This may also require medicine, doctors, and counselors with God’s grace in confession.
The opposite is the one who thinks they never sin or tries to rationalize their sin and does not reconcile themselves with God. One who does not desire holiness or is blinded by their pride/ego. I believe each human struggles with a little bit of both.
In the act of contrition, we pray to “avoid the near occasion of sin”. Often times we forget this once we get back into the routine of life. Habits are important to pay attention to. We may need to change a routine we are in, a place we go, people we hang out with, or today an electronic device we use too much (what is the purpose of the device? It is a device to use to lead us to God, not a device to get addicted to or lead us to sin).
God gave us life as a gift out of love, our identity is in Him. Jeremy Driscoll says, “I am loved, therefore I am.” We are created out of love. We do not exist and our lives have no meaning without this love. Our Father destined us before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before Him, redeemed by His Son’s holy blood in a covenant that required sacrifice, and sealed us in His Holy Spirit (Eph 1:1-14) This is our identity and we stop living it, when we sin.
When we celebrate all saint’s day and all soul’s day, we learn that we are made to see God face to face at the end of our journey through the death and resurrection of Christ in baptism. We have a high calling. We must learn to “avoid the near occasion of sin” by forming ourselves in knowledge of God and daily habits that lead us to God and His grace not away from Him.
We are called to rise above with God’s grace and cooperating with His Will. Our souls, our being, is a precious gift from God and He wills for us to come back to Him. He calls us to make our will His Will to return His love. Pope Francis says, “God never tires of giving mercy, we tire of asking for it.” Repent, you have an entire heaven full of angels and saints waiting to rejoice!
Most importantly, God’s one desire is your friendship. He sent His only Son to die for it. God wants a relationship with you. Our sin is a failure in relationships. We are made for relationships. Our sin stems from a failure in our relationship with God, our own flesh, or another person. When we sin we fail in one of these relationships.
Think about who you are hurting next time you are about sin. We all need to learn and practice forgiveness because we will certainly fail in our relationships. They are difficult. With God’s grace and love transforming us, we too can share this love to build healthy relationships with others.
Key tip: If you want to avoid the near occasion of sin, fill yourself with God’s life (sacraments). We can receive the Eucharist daily and go to confession as often as needed. The saints were experts in receiving these sacraments. Pray with the Scriptures developing a personal relationship with God. Sit in silence and write a journal. Ask Mary to lead you to her Son, pray the rosary meditating on the mysteries of Jesus and Mary’s lives.
Adore God in Adoration. Read a spiritual book each day. We can’t earn heaven, it is a gift. We are transformed by God’s grace, so bring yourself to His grace all throughout the day, then you will find yourself yearning for God and time to spend with Him. You will find yourself avoiding the near occasion of sin because you no longer want to hurt your best friend!
Today’s challenge: Repent. Baby steps start one day at a time and come to God’s grace in the Eucharist and confession daily if needed. The saints often came to these two sacraments daily. Clothe yourself with Christ.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
“How does a sinner receive this grace? Allowing Jesus into your boat, recognizing our sinfulness, humbly approaching the One who is love, mercy, and justice.” This stood out to me because this is the only way to be completely full of happiness and faith. By allowing Jesus into your boat, you give up everything that is metaphorically keeping Him from entering the boat (your life).
“THIS MAN WELCOMES SINNERS AND EATS WITH THEM.” LK 15:1-10. This stood out to me because Jesus is saying that a man welcomes and eats with sinners. Another reason why this stood out to me is because for me it is saying that even when we sin Jesus will always welcome us and he will always eat with us no matter what we have done.
This is saying that even if we are the most terrible sinner, God’s love will save us and he will rejoice as long as we let him work through us.
In Today’s Gospel, Pharisees are saying Jesus shouldn’t be sitting with the sinner and tax collectors, but we know that Jesus will always accept us no matter what. Sometimes the devil will make you think that He would never accept you and He will never love you, but this will literally never be true. Always love Jesus and be with Him until the end, for He will be with you. God is love straight through, and cannot not love, so why would He make an exception for you.
god would leave 99 to find you. you are his most import creasion and that God will allways love us even when we go down the wrong path. we need to lisson to the vocasion he has for us.forgives is a big part of being holy you cant hold gruges on people.
This gospel told me that Jesus’ love for us goes farther than we can comprehend. Sometimes we can all feel unloved, like when our parents yell at us, our friends are ignoring us, or even when we don’t feel like loving ourselves. Jesus will always be there to make up for all the love you feel like your missing, he would go as far as to leave 99 to find you. “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” this line was telling me that Jesus will welcome you with sin on your soul, but repentance in your heart. You could be the best person and have barley any sin, but if you don’t have repentance then you wouldn’t be welcome to eat with Jesus. Something that’s always stuck with me is “One sin doesn’t define you” and that reminds me of this gospel.
“I tell you, in just the same way
there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need of repentance.”
This stuck out to me because it’s saying that if you keep repenting for your sins you will find eternal life with God but if you don’t, you won’t have eternal life. (<–in my words) (Lord i ask that you lead everyone's soul here to you, that everyone meets you in heaven. That anyone who has been wrong will find you, will know what they did is wrong, and that everything will turn out well for them.
May Jesus bless us all and grant us eternal life with him.) They people in the Gospel today were doubters but Jesus didn't treat them any differently. Always be kind to others and if you don't please ask for forgiveness. May Jesus bless you.
This is awesome, Katelynn!
in today’s Gospel the pharisees were angry at Jesus because He eats and talks to sinners, Jesus welcomes everyone especially sinners. it’s greater when a sinner repents for what he has done, than a man who has no need to repent and is welcomed into heaven straight away. A sinner was in battle, repenting his sins trying to get to heaven.
The Gospel was telling me that when you lose something then eventually you find it. Just like with God, when you grow away from God He is still there waiting for you and He will find you as long as you try to find Him.
Today in the Gospel, Jesus tells us that no matter how much you sin, no matter what you look like, what you wear, what you eat, what you listen to, everyone is welcome into the Kingdom of God. This is a good lesson to remember because it is true. God created YOU to be YOU. He didn’t create you so you could change what you like just to fit in. He created you so you could a) get to Heaven b) love one another. We are called to help each other get to Heaven. That is the true reason why we have the opportunity to come and live on Earth. Earth is like a practice for what we were really called for. Heaven!
Amen!
In today’s gospel Jesus is say when He loses one sheep or us, He put everything down to help us get back on the road. In the other parable of the ten coins He will clean your soul and light a lamp to guide you back to the road of holiness.
I think the phrase “Think about who you are hurting next time you are about to sin.” tells us that not only are we hurting ourselves morally and our soul when we sin, but we also chip away at our relationship with God. He will always love us but he needs to know if you love him through how we act on a day to day basis. Like how we treat others, time we take of our day to pray and worship God, and through what we own and how we act.
Elliot,
Thanks for the kind words in your affirmation letter to me. It means more to me than you know. I appreciate it!
Today in the scripture I learned that even if I was the only one Jesus had to die for he would still do it. “There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.” One sinner who gives there life to Christ is a greater accomplishment than 99 people who deserve to be in heaven. None of us “deserves” heaven for what we have done but only because Jesus Christ died for us.
Amen! Be grateful, we don’t deserve all that God continues to do for us. This is what love does! We need to receive it and pass it on to others!
I think he is trying to say that even if we do sin he will still love us no matter what we do he will still love us we are his sheep and he is our Shepard he loves us no matter what if we lose one sheep he will do anything just to find that one sheep even if we sin he will love us. He calls us all together at church and we pray with him and rejoice with him he will love us no matter what and that shows just how much faith he has in us even if we fall he will pick us back up and love us.
I really like when it said “Allowing Jesus into your boat”. We need to change our persectives on life and view it in a completely different way. Use our devices as a way to lead us towards God and not get us addicted and turned away from him. Hanging out with people that bring us closer to God and bring out the best in us. We are called to repent and change our lives.
Going back to allowing Jesus in our boat, Gods grace can not be earned, its a gift. When we take steps to avoid stepping away from Him and doing things that lead us in the other direction, we are choosing God’s mercy with our effort until the sin is no longer a part of our life.
Gracie,
Your spiritual insight has grown tremendously since last year! I am so proud of you and to be your spiritual director. You are totally getting it! I know only God and his grace have done this because you are spending time with Him and opening yourself up to him. Amen!!!!!
It was telling me that I should repent and listen to God whenever I can.
We may need to change a routine we are in, a place we go, people we hang out with, or today an electronic device we use too much (what is the purpose of the device? It is a device to use to lead us to God, not a device to get addicted to or lead us to sin).Give up a hour or more on screens.Do a helpful thing for some one.
In the Gospel it is say if you lose something you would want to find it and also to rejoice that you found it.God is saying that if you stray away from the Lord him will come find you and bring you back to him.
“there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” To me this means that when I go to confession the Angles and God will rejoice because I have done wrong and I know I have done wrong and I just confessed it so they are happy that I am now ready to go to Heaven.
The gospel today is telling us that God will leave the world and the other Catholics to find us. To retreave us and grab us in his arms. He will guide us into the Catholic faith to help convert or to start believing in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. He will then bring us to his house and we will celebrate. Like batism or Confirmation. We will celebrate that we are part of the Catholic church the their family. God Bless you and Have a Great Day!
Even though Jesus has thousands and thousands of followers if you’re lost and can’t find Jesus He will always go out and find you.
Jesus’s love is never ending and He will never leave you even if you fall into sin over and over again. Jesus accepts and loves everyone even if they are lost. To be the 1 lost sheep is to sin and lose hope. Jesus comforts you when you’re lonely and think that there is no on left for you to turn to. Jesus is the one person who is always there no matter who turns away from you, Jesus could never do that to you.
In the Gospel when Jesus says “I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” I think he is saying that we should be happy for others even when they get what we want, that we shouldn’t be jealous or cold towards them. We should also forgive others for there sins even if they didn’t do anything directly to us but to never reject someone because of who they used to be.
The thing that stuck out from the gospel today was Jesus would leave the 99 to find 1 lost sheep. This means that if we are lost or in sin Jesus will always love us and bring us back to him.
In today’s gospel, the pharisees complain about how Jesus is eating with the sinners. He tells them about the Parable of the Lost sheep and how he would leave the 99 just to find us. The lost sheep is all of us, sinners who have sinned. Jesus loves us so much that he would leave them just to find us and to forgive us for our sins. He wants us to pray as much as we can so that we can reach Heaven.
In the Gospel, Jesus is saying is telling us that even out of everyone, if one of us is lost, he will come searching for us. If he finds the one he is searching for he will be glad and rejoice with everyone. It doesn’t matter if we are sinners because he loves us no matter what and wants us to be close to him and reach Heaven to be with him.
In the gospel Jesus said “What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?” We are that lost sheep and Jesus will leave the 99 to look for us because he loves us. His love is infanent and forever.
In today’s gospel Jesus is sitting with sinners, so that tells me no matter how much you sin God will ALWAYS forgive you and that just tells us how amazing God is! God will always love you no matter how you look, what you do, how you do it, and why you do it God is our best friend even if we think he isn’t ours! that just tells us how much God loves us and how much he does for us!
In today’s Gospel there are two parables with similar meanings. It helps show how much God loves each one of us individually. When people say that God would die on the cross if you were the only person in the world this Gospel clearly shows this. It illustrates that God came into the world not for the already righteous, but the ones in need of his mercy. Many of his apostles were anything but perfect. This is why he came.
In today’s gospel, I think Jesus is trying to tell us even if we are the worst of sinners, he will still love us and try to guide to the path of holiness.
Jesus is telling us that over all the good people he would be over fulling with happiness over us and he will leave to die on the cross just for us he will move mountains part the waters just for us he will always leave the 99 no matter how many times we are lost. just for us
The gosple today told me that I should repent and reconcil all sin, even when it is hard
the gospel today reminds me that god is there no matter what and one of my favorite Bible verses is”But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil”it tells me that I should not worry about tommorow but to care for today
today in the scripture that jesus is above all.He is there for us on our down or up days.jesus is God but not everyone understands that.God gave up his only son in the world for us.We are transformed by god even at the sight of him.He is god and with him and thing is possible.one of my favorite quotes from jesus is “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil”tells me that i should not worry but I should only care.
“there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” To me this means that heaven will celebrate and rejoice when someone turns to God and follows in his steps.
“Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.” Jesus is saying to me that if we ever run away from God and shut him out he will always come looking for us and when he finds us is when we turn our heads back to God and worship him.
“Do we desire holiness? When we take steps to avoid the near occasion of sin by coming to God’s mercy and choosing His Will with our effort until the sin is no longer a part of our life.” We should all ask ourselves this each and every day and act on it.
Something that stuck out to me was the Jesus will the 99 just to look for us. This is important because it shows how much Jesus loves us and would do anything just for us to repent and grow in faith. We should try and do everything we can to get to heaven and have eternal life with him.
The whole time was talking about how God will rejoice when that 1 sinner has repented.
“Jesus teaches us that God is not very economical” this means that he would leave 99 to gain 1. He love you and he will do so much for you.
The way I see it is It doesn’t matter what you wear, eat, how pretty you are etc… God loves you all the same. If you lost a tooth nobody would love you less just because a little bit of you is missing. God will do wonders for you. He loves and cares for you every day.
“‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.” This stood out to me because it it saying come rejoice for I have found was I have been looking for.
what really stuck out to me is when jesus said ¨what woman having ten coins and losing one
would not light a lamp and sweep the house,
searching carefully until she finds it?
And when she does find it,
she calls together her friends and neighbors
and says to them,
‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.¨ i think he wants us to find the one lost thing that we have lost and leave the 99 thing that we have for that one thing. like he did with the 99 sheep and the one lost sheep.
we cant earn heaven it’s a gift, really stands out to me because I many parables and scriptures Jesus tells us to repent for the kingdom of God it near but many of us don’t and like he says in the parable of the faithful servant we must always be ready because any day could be our last and any day could be the day were sent to be judged by God.
I Know every one has heard this parable before and has it somewhat memorized by now so I’m not going to say the same thing everyone else has but I will say this no man will enter heaven unless he repents.
Today’s Gospel is telling us that if we turn our backs to God he will come to get us because he will always love us. No matter what we do if we turn back around and rejoice we will be forgived.
We have relationships with not just other people, but with God as well. That is the one thing God wants from us and each sin is a failure in our relationship. So the next time you’re about to sin, think about the people you will hurt by committing that sin. Even if you’ve sinned, you can always ask God for forgiveness. Ask and you shall receive.
“Allowing Jesus into your boat, recognizing our sinfulness, humbly approaching the One who is love, mercy, and justice. ” We need to allow Jesus into our lives because if we don’t then we won’t really know anything about God. And just to talk to Him every night will let Him know you.
“God gave us life as a gift out of love, our identity is in Him.” I got from this the fact that we cant do anything without love because God is love and we need God. Without God we fall into depression and loneliness. He will also forever love us so we can always go crawling back to Him.
“THIS MAN WELCOMES SINNERS AND EATS WITH THEM.” What this means to me is that we need to all be humble. We need to give back to the needed and give to food to the homeless and give drink to the thirst. Jesus are King and savior is setting an example for us so we need to take action and do it.
“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.'” I think that Jesus is trying to tell us that we need to try to strengthen the people around us in the faith and help them get closer to God, along with ourselves. I think that we need to learn how to be selfless and how to encourage others in the faith.
I this Scripture I think God is trying to tell me that even if we are lost in the world of sin he will be there. He will always look for no matter how far away or how close, he will look for both no matter what and he will value us when He finds. We are lucky that he will as ways be waiting for us to find him ourselves, since He will always be there.
Jesus is referring to us as his lost sheep and how we need to find our way home. He is saying in the Gospel today that He will leave the 99 just so He can find us. Jesus told us that even if we were the only person on earth he would still love us and die on the cross for just your sin. Jesus loves us very much.
“THIS MAN WELCOMES SINNERS AND EATS WITH THEM.” LK 15:1-10. In todays Gospel we see the parable of the lost sheep. This teaches us that no sinner is not worther of Christ but the must repent. I feel like this Gospel is a call to confession for our sins
today in the Gospel Jesus talks about the parable about the lost sheep I believe the lost sheep is the on who has turned from God and dosent know where to go anymore Jesus goes and looks for to bring you back to his grace and when he does find and you turn back he rejoices as the gospel says “And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joyhe calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.'” that shows us Jesus loves us all and he will look for us.
“We must learn to “avoid the near occasion of sin” this stuck out to me because its telling us to avoid sin. And for some people its hard to avoid sin. And its a struggle to avoid sin and our goal is to get to heaven
Today’s gospel talks about searching for the lost sheep. Jesus wants a relationship with every one of us. There is not a single person on this Earth that Jesus would not have died for. Jesus knows everyone of us and wants to invite us to his eternal banquet. Its just a matter of if we want to seek out that relationship with him. Jesus will always be there with open arms but will you seek him?
Jesus loves us and will do anything for us. We are the sheep and sometimes we get lost.He leaves the others to find you because he cares about you.When we fall astray he will be the one leading the search . No matter how many times you get lost Jesus will find you.
Jesus loves us and will do anything for us. We are the sheep and sometimes we get lost.He leaves the others to find you because he cares about you.When we fall astray he will be the one leading the search . No matter how many times you get lost Jesus will find you.
“This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” We are all sinners but God still welcomes us and loves us unconditionally. when we dont feel loved by others or feel loved by ourselves we have someone we know will love us, God. God goes as far as leaving 99 to find you. when we fall away from God we know He will reach out his hand and pick us up again.
2 things I got from this today were that Jesus loves us individually no matter who we are and what we do. He would die on the cross for us if we were the only human on earth. That is how much he loves us
You should allow Jesus into your boat. Because if you don’t, your boat will sink. If you only ask, but not worship, your boat will end with holes. These holes are your wrongs. But, if you let him into your boat, it will stay afloat, and you have gained a new best friend.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus talks about the Parable of the Lost Sheep. The Pharisees criticize him for letting sinners dine with Him. But, what he tells them is that He is helping them repent and that they need to repent to go to heaven with Him.
What stood out to me was that we are like his sheep. If we repent we can all make it to heaven. The people who don’t have any thought to repent they wont make it. We are his lost sheep and he wants us back in his arms.
This Gospel is telling us how Jesus will leave His 99 sheep and look for the one last one. Once he finds the sheep, he rejoices. This is exactly what Jesus does. He loves us so much that he will leave everyone just to try to convert one. Then He rejoices.
Today Jesus, Preaches to the tax collectors and other sinners. He is trying to bring them closer to himself and the father. he explains this to the Pharisees thought the parable of the lost sheep. The Shepard leaves the 99 to search for the one who is lost. This is what God does for us, he loves so much there is no length that he won’t go to to bring you back to him. When that happens, it is a cause for celebration.
In today’s Gospel God is judged for welcoming the sinners and eating them. Jesus doesn’t care what other people think about him. He doesn’t discriminate against others on how they look or act just like we should.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us the very well-known parable of The Lost Sheep. In this parable, he describes that in a flock of one-hundred sheep, one went lost and the shepherd searched for the lost sheep. When he found his lost sheep, in joyous arms he carried the sheep back home.
In life, we sometimes drift away from our faith, indulging in worldly pleasures. The world moves fast and media today is secular. The social norm today is living your life out, not living as a disciple of God. Many sheep have drifted away from Jesus’s pen, but Jesus will take his time to search everyone of us so that he, with joyous arms, can return us back safely to his domain and rejoice. Let us run back to the Father and be in his state of grace, because no matter how many times we get lost from his pen, God will always be searching for us and will welcome us back in joyous arms.
In the gospel today, the message that I got was that God loves all his children. In the gospel today, Jesus said that one sinner who repents will be rejoiced for more than 99 sinners who have no need for repentance. This tells me that no matter what we do, we will never be able to not be loved by God, he will always love us no matter what and we should love him too.
´I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people ´ This stood out to me because it shows us how much Jesus really loves us. We were lost but then he found us. We should always put our trust in him and spread the gospel.
“In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” This is telling us that God loves us so much that he would leave everyone else to make sure we were okay. He would do anything for us just so we can make it into heaven. He’s loves us so much not matter what we do and all we have to do is love him back.
God tells me today that we are big and we matter. I personally would not clean the whole house and look everywhere for one coin. I would move on and if I find it great. But Jesus is the person to look and look. So I see it this way Jesus is sooo grateful for all of us that he will look and look for us to find us when we get lost in sin. Now just a coin we may not be as grateful for that in today’s society. So today also showed me to be grateful for even a small coin. Also that we are sooo big (mean so much) to Jesus and we may not know it.
What resonates with me is “We can’t earn Haven, it is a gift”. This is because too many times I feel like we all ,especially me, see Heaven as something we have to devote our entire lives for which is true to a point. Our whole lives we should go to Mass and be kind and make the right decisions but Heaven is a gift because everyone sins and makes mistakes. For us to lose those sins we have to recieve the gift of the sacrament of confession and all the other sacraments that are gift’s. God knows that we all sin but he gives us gifts and abilities that allow us to make it to Heaven which makes Heaven a gift.
Something that stuck to me when i read this is that when we let God onto our bout we realize our sinful ways and all of our disrespect and also all of our bad lifestyle. Letting God into your boat is hard to do trust me. sometimes every time i do something bad and i go to confessino im really embarressed about what i did and it was a easy thing not to do like cursing is a thing i have a habit i do and everytime i go its a sin i always say cause curse words and its really embarssing for me to say that all the time and i really dont like how i curse so ive been trying to stop but it sometimes is really difficult. i feel like todays gospel was really nice and i could relate to it. it may be hard or embarassing to let God into your boat since your gonna realize all the wrong you have done but its better to realize it then let that sin/mistake rule over youre life. its important to let God into your boat and change your bad into good.
I think in the Gospel today God is telling me that He will not stop waiting for us to come to Him, even if we are the only one who is not with Him. I also think God is telling me that He allowed sin into the world because He will be more happy if we sin but choose good than if we were good all of the time.
“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?” This verse stuck out to me because it shows that no matter how far off from God we are he will leave everything and drop everything to do anything in his power to draw us back to his love. Our God is a caring and loving father that no matter what we do he will always forgive us. God treats a criminal and a priest with the same love and that just proves how much he loves us no matter how far we drift away. Even though he has many sons and daughters got thought of each and everyone one of us and that’s how we were born. So no matter how far away you feel from the faith God is always on the other side trying to run back to you.
I think I was being told that God will look out for me and He will not give up on anyone if they are loosing of have lost their Faith in Him and His presence.
“THIS MAN WELCOMES SINNERS AND EATS WITH THEM.”
what that means to me is the lord loves us all equal weather
we are sinners or if we are holy without blemish .
In today’s Gospel I believe Jesus is trying to tell us that even if we sin we are still redeemable, you shouldnt look down on those who sin.
Today’s Gospel is saying that even if we do the most dispicable and unthinkably bad things, God will always love and care for us. He is higher and only love
I think that the gospel is saying that Jesus will always love you and forgive you for sinning. Nobody is perfect and God will love u no matter what.
“Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.” Jesus would leave 99 sheep just to get to us. This shows how much he truly loves and each one of us in his eyes is worth a lot.
I think Jesus is telling us that all of us the most devoted Catholic and the most lowly of sinners are all equal and when that sinner repents there will be a celebration among the angels in heaven.
‘no matter what we say no matter what we do now matter what may come jesus I trust in you . ‘ always come back to the Lord Jesus Christ and be holy before him repeat these words I have written please
In todays Gospel Jesus said, “Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep” this shows us that Jesus has a deep love for you and will leave the other 99 sheep to come and find you. He will always come and help you and find you even in your darkest time. Jesus also will always forgive us and will always be by our side. He will always welcome us into heaven and help us get there.
What stuck out to me is that Jesus would leave his 99 sheep and look for the 1 lost one. This means that even if we sin or make bad choices Jesus will still come looking for us.
In todays Gosple I thin Jesus is trying to tell me that he will always wait for us to come to him.Jeusus always will love us even when we turn away from him. This is what I think Jesus is trying to tell me today
What I took from the Gospel is that God will always come looking for us, and will always try to find a way back to us. Even when we turn away from him, he will always forgive us.
“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? ” I feel the gospel today is saying that no matter how far you wonder from God, he will never give up hope until you are found. He will leave the other 99 just to find you, the one who is lost.
The part that stuck out to me was when the scribes and pharisees say, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” This means to me that even though we are sinners God will still love us and welcome us into heaven even though we have sinned many times in our lives.
“We are created out of love. We do not exist and our lives have no meaning without this love.” we don’t, we really don’t exist without gods love. we sin; and we sin a lot, more often then we should ever. still God couldn’t care less, he loves us he wants us to see the beauties in his heavenly kingdom. no matter what sin you commit he will forgive you. of course you have to pray, you have to go to confession, and you have to really be sorry but still he’s going to forgive if you truly mean these things. just remember, Jesus loves me, Jesus made me for a reason I am yet to find out, God awaits for me beyond the dark, he would climb any mountain for me, he would tear any wall down, no living being loves me more than the lord, he wants me here right now, wherever I am, Jesus loves me. #WWJD
“God’s grace can’t be earned, its a gift. God gave us life as a gift out of love, our identity is in Him.” These stuck out to me because all God does is give us a gift, a gift of life, a gift of grace, and a gift of forgiveness.
The thing that stood out to me was
“there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need of repentance.
this stood out to me because we all need to repent, because heaven is waiting to rejoice over a repenter.
the passage said that he will leave the 99 sheep to find the one sheep because of his love.
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find it funny most of the time if you leave 99 sheep’s alone they all will run away
Jesus talks to everyone, not just the religious higher-ups. He loves the sinner.
“We may need to change a routine we are in, a place we go, people we hang out with, or today an electronic device we use too much.”
this parts are really important, and stuck out to me the most, because the routine that I’m currently in is not the best, I really don’t have time to go to church unless its school church or Sunday. my old routine would let me spend time with God,Jesus and do the rosary in a church at least 3-5 times a week. it would be nice to change our schedules to spend time with God more than we do now as teenagers. the friends around us can tend to influence us, maybe they tell us ‘God isn’t real” or “the Catholic faith is stupid” and “oh do this instead of that” the friends that say those things, you need to kick them out of your life, and friends that tell you something bad about the Catholic faith, need to GET out of there because sometimes they can make you doubt if the Catholic faith, or Jesus is real or not, and that’s not good. with the electric devices, we don’t need them to spend time on them to just doomscroll, we need time on them to get connected with God. play some Bible verse games, read the Bible online if you don’t have one, yes you can be on your phone to watch stuff and text and call but most importantly at least spend 15-20 minutes connecting with God.
““Allowing Jesus into your boat, recognizing our sinfulness, humbly approaching the One who is love, mercy, and justice.”
this one also really stuck out to me and was important because if we never allowed Jesus into our life, we would have never got to know him, never would have gotten to get closer to the faith and to him, we would have never got to take communion, never gotten baptized, and most importantly we wouldn’t be able to be here in this wonderful school, with this teaching of our faith. with our sin, we need to be more cautious and careful about it, kinda of like how they tell us to be aware of our surroundings, be aware of our sin. the devil can surely tempt us when it comes to anything and I mean ANYTHING, stealing, lying, cheating and there’s way more. God, Jesus is always and will forever be love, mercy, and justice.
Good job, Maya! Your reflections are well stated. May God’s grace give us the motivation to be inspired to spend more time with Him and not get caught up in the world.
‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ I feel like this line in today’s Gospel resembles us for example. If we ever start to drift away from God and down a completely different path, He will always find us and bring us back to Him.
Sorry, thought that was Nov. 6. Here is mine for Oct. 30:
Jesus tells the pharisees that they are such hypocrites that they do not accept that the prophets and even Jesus are real. He also is telling us that “you will not see me until the time comes when you say,
‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'”
“There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.”
The angels and saints are happier for us if we go to confession than they would be for a saint who goes to heaven.
In this Gospel I think Jesus is trying to tell us that he would leave all of the people who follow him just to help that ONE person who drifted away and he will not stop looking until he finds them. Jesus loves us with all his heart and he will not stop until we are all following him so we can get to Heaven and live happily.
In this Scripture it is talking about how God eats with his sinners and talks with them. I does not matter how pretty, bad, sinful, because God is love and he is going to protect you and never give up on you, but only if you never give up on him because he is your Lord God you Savoir. God will take care of you and he will eat with you and take to you even if you are a sinner because he knows we are good people deep down our hearts because God created us in his image. God Loves You!!!
I think that He is telling us that we are the lost sheep, that He will take care of all of us and that we need to find Him.
Jesus is like a magnet and He is trying to attract us so that we the negative and him the positive are connected.