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SUNDAY GOSPEL LECTIO DIVINA

  • Lectio Divina, The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 24, 2024
    November 22, 2024

    Lectio Divina, The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 24, 2024

    Jesus says, “Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” He is the Good Shepherd, and we are his sheep. The sheep know their shepherd’s voice when he calls. When we listen for the Truth, we can distinguish his voice from the others in the crowd of influences in our lives. The Truth is indeed a person. We can know him and his voice just as we can know any other person and their voice. We can know the voice of Truth so well, in fact, that we can decipher it from other voices when others claim to be telling the truth but are not. The more we listen to Jesus, the clearer this voice of truth becomes. This voice is telling us to believe, to be not afraid, and to trust in Jesus.
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  • Lectio Divina, Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time November 17, 2024
    November 16, 2024

    Lectio Divina, Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time November 17, 2024

    In reality, Christ’s words in this Sunday’s Gospel are constantly coming true all around us. They will all come true in all the ways we imagine they will as well in a day of Final Judgment, because Christ is not trying to deceive us. But science has shown us how all of Jesus’ warnings take place upon occassion. Stars do fall from the sky. We call them shooting stars. The sun and moon do become darkened. We call them eclipses. Instead of seeing these astronomical events as just pretty shows in the sky, let's heed them as signs from God. He is telling us that everything we thought was constant and stable, he can alter at his will. It will all pass away, but his word will remain. When we listen to him, we start to see the many layers of truth in his word.
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  • Lectio Divina, Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time November 10, 2024
    November 8, 2024

    Lectio Divina, Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time November 10, 2024

    God’s ways are not our ways. Our ways would say it’s foolish to give all our money away like the poor widow did in this Sunday’s Gospel. But God is inviting us to a completely different world that casts aside the worries and concerns of this world. The worries this world gives us keep us from hearing God’s voice. The main reason Jesus wants us to let go of the treasures of this world is so that we could not only rely on him more completely, but also see and hear him more clearly. What can I let go of so that I can more clearly hear God’s voice?

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  • Lectio Divina, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time November 3, 2024
    October 31, 2024

    Lectio Divina, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time November 3, 2024

    God wants to take over our lives and fill them with his divine love and joy. For this to happen we need to put him first in our lives and prefer his will over our own. To become everything God intended us to be, we need to get out of our own way. Let’s do what we need to do in this moment to silence ourselves and listen to God.
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  • Lectio Divina, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 20, 2024
    October 17, 2024

    Lectio Divina, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 20, 2024

    To follow Christ, I must listen to what he tells me. This is so obvious, and yet still so often forgotten. I am constantly tempted to put God in a box, and that box is my head. In a way, I answer my own prayers and don’t look for God’s answers. Listening requires sincere, genuine engagement in whatever the other person is saying. Do I sincerely and genuinely listen to God’s voice when I read Scripture? If James and John were listening to Christ’s message about how to be first in God’s kingdom, they would not have been concerned about whether they would be at Christ’s right and left in heaven. They would have first looked for how they could serve, not what reward they could get in return, and then they would have left the rest up to God. When the word of God enters our hearts, it lives through us and animates our actions. Am I listening to Jesus that much?
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  • Lectio Divina, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 13, 2024
    October 11, 2024

    Lectio Divina, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 13, 2024

    Eternal life is all around us waiting to be embraced. The rich man in this Sunday’s Gospel failed to appreciate the gifts he was already given, and therefore was destined to always want more. He wasn’t willing to give up what he had already obtained, and as a result he would not be able to see the graces God already gave him, and gives us all; the law, his love, the prophets, nature, his son, the Holy Spirit. All of these gifts and more are right before us. We simply need to be silent and eliminate the clutter in our life somehow, even if just for a while, in order to recognize and appreciate these gifts more.
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  • Lectio Divina, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time October 6, 2024
    October 3, 2024

    Lectio Divina, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time October 6, 2024

    So often we think we know the answers. We think we are doing good for God, but later notice that he was asking something different. This is what the disciples learned when Jesus told them to let the children come to him. Is there an area in my life where perhaps I think I’m doing the right thing, but maybe if I listened to God more closely I would notice that he was telling me to do the opposite? It’s in times like these when I need to listen to God more closely, because I may be missing an opportunity where God wants to let his grace flow more freely.
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  • Lectio Divina, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 29, 2024
    September 26, 2024

    Lectio Divina, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 29, 2024

    God watches us and admires every way we give him praise. Let’s use our lives to do just that, to praise him. Then we will see his will prevailing in our lives. If we turn our eyes to him instead of toward sin, we will see his glory. But so often we choose sin over him, thinking it’s the better choice. It never is. Have faith and seek him everywhere you go. He will not disappoint.
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