by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“‘… I tell you … there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. …'”
“… some people … resist, disbelieve, or even hate God … [or] engage[] in serious sins [yet] there are even more who have simply fallen into indifference and drifted away from God and the things of Heaven. … What makes this sort of rejection of God’s invitation so pernicious … Many today who live very secular lives, giving little or no thought to God, are very ‘nice’ people. … pay[ing] their taxes, lov[ing] their families … dedicat[ing] their time to … good causes. … [while] seem[ing] to have little time for God or for the things of God …. * * * Do you want what God offers or do you prefer the world … its offers rooted in the flesh or even in the devil? … a strange obtuseness to the human heart … desir[es] lesser things to greater …. carried away by passing pleasures … hat[ing] the discipline of the Cross. We must recover an urgency in our evangelization that does not presume that most will ‘make it in’ by some natural ‘goodness’ or ‘niceness.’ … Vague notions of universalism and of being pleasant, nice people cannot replace the Biblical teaching of obedience to the summons to say yes to God’s Kingdom. … we need a sober, consistent, urgent outreach to the many souls who prefer the secular to the sacred, the passing to the Eternal, what is here to what is Heavenly. Wishful thinking will not win any souls, only a sober seriousness rooted in God’s Word will do so. …”
Catholic televised Mass for Tuesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Nov. 6, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“‘… the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, “Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.” The servant reported, “Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.” The master then ordered the servant, “Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.”‘”
Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily for Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Nov. 5, 2018, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
“‘… when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Catholic televised Mass for Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Nov. 5, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic televised Mass for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Nov. 4, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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