DAILY GOSPEL Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. John 6:68 Sunday, 03 November 2013 Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C Saint(s) of the day : St. Martin de Porres, Religious (1579-1639), St. Hubert, Bishop (657-727) See commentary below or click here Paul VI: Zacchaeus was seeking to see who Jesus was Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 19:1-10. At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house. And he came down quickly and received him with joy. When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner. But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over. And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Paul VI, Pope from 1963-1978 General Audience of 26/08/1970 Zacchaeus was seeking to see who Jesus was People today, generally speaking, are no longer looking for God... They look for everything, except God. God is dead, they say; lets not be bothered about him any more. But God is not dead; for so many people of today he is lost. So then, wouldnt it be worth the trouble to look for him? People are looking for everything: the new and the old; the difficult and the useless; the good and the bad. One might say that this kind of seeking is characteristic of modern life. But why not look for God? Isnt he a “value” worth our looking for? Isnt he a reality who is in need of a better understanding than the purely nominal one in current use? Better than that of certain superstitious and overdone religious expressions that we ought either to reject because they are false or purify because they are imperfect. Better than one that thinks itself to be already well-informed and forgets that God is an inexpressible mystery, that to know God is a question of life, eternal life, for us? (cf Jn 17,3). Isnt God what we might call a “problem” that touches us nearly, that puts into the court our thoughts, conscience, destiny and, inevitably, our meeting with him personally one day? As for God, might he not be hidden so that we have to go look for him through an exciting and decisive initiative? And what if God himself was seeking for us?
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