Jesus proclaimed the Good News of the kingdom
and cured all kinds of sickness among the people. MT 4:23
ISAIAH 56:1,6-7 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
We, O Lord, members of the Church You founded with You as its Cornerstone and on Peter, the Rock on whom You have built this Church, are the foreigners who have made members of Your mystical body. The people God had chosen for His own rejected Him by rejecting You. The glorious outcome of their rejection is that the invitation is now extended to everyone everywhere. We have come into the wedding hall as the guests of the Bridegroom and we partake of the wedding banquet and receive the life of the Son and we receive salvation and life in and through You.
The one, holy, perfect sacrifice of the Lamb of God, without stain or blemish, once offered on Calvary is re-presented every day in every corner of the globe and offered to the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit is what saves the world. Here, the faithful gather day after day, those who attend the celebration of daily Holy Mass, and those who come joyfully, in response to God's command on the Day of the Lord, receive from God immense graces that sustain us in our journey and strengthens us with heavenly manna until we enter into Your glory.
Foreigners who have attached themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love his name and be his servants – all who observe the sabbath, not profaning it, and cling to my covenant – these I will bring to my holy mountain. I will make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their holocausts and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.
ROMANS 11:13-15,29-32 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
Today, I wish to thank God, our Father, for His graciousness in turning His gaze to pagans and gentiles and extending the gift of salvation to us when the people He chose to be His own rejected You. As St. Paul says, their rejection meant the reconciliation of the whole world to You, and because God does not change His mind, His people, the hardened hearts of the people of Israel will eventually soften and many will come to recognize and believe that You are their long-awaited Messiah.
God's mercy embraces every living human being and anyone who hungers and thirsts for God will find You, believe in You, and will be saved. Thank You, Lord, that despite the disobedience of the world in our current age, Your salvific work will eventually bear fruit and many will be saved.
God never takes back his gifts or revokes his choice. Just as you changed from being disobedient to God, and now enjoy mercy because of their disobedience, so those who are disobedient now – and only because of the mercy shown to you – will also enjoy mercy eventually. God has imprisoned all men in their own disobedience only to show mercy to all mankind.
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