DAILY GOSPEL Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. John 6:68 Monday, 24 November 2014 Monday of the Thirty-fourth week in Ordinary Time Saint(s) of the day : St. Andrew Dung-Lac and his companions, martyrs (1745-1862) - Memorial Blessed Charles de Foucauld : Giving all to receive all Book of Revelation 14:1-3.4b-5. I John looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Fathers name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. They were singing (what seemed to be) a new hymn before the throne, before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been ransomed from the earth. These are they who were not defiled with women; they are virgins and these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed as the firstfruits of the human race for God and the Lamb. On their lips no deceit has been found; they are unblemished. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 21:1-4. When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), hermit and missionary in the Sahara Meditations on the passages of the holy Gospels relating to the fifteen virtues, no.69, Nazareth 1897-98 Giving all to receive all God has not made salvation depend on knowledge, intelligence, wealth, long experience, special gifts that not everyone has received : no ! He has made it depend on what lies within the hands of everyone, absolutely everyone, young and old, people of every age and class, all levels of intelligence and fortune. He has made it depend on what everyone, absolutely everyone, is able to give him; what every person, whoever he may be, can give him with a little good will. A little bit of good will! This is all it takes to win the heaven Jesus attaches to humility, to making oneself small, to taking the lowest place, to obeying, and that he attaches too, besides, to poverty of spirit, purity of heart, love of justice, the spirit of peace and so on (Mt 5,3f.). Let us have hope, since by God’s mercy salvation is so near to us, in our hands, and since a little good will is all it takes to obtain it.
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