The Word every day: 1-7 September, 2024
Commentary on the Readings of the Day by Father Giordano Favillini
Sunday 1/09
Mark 7, 6
Jesus said: ‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me’. These words should give us pause for thought. The Lord is not so much interested in being honoured with outward celebrations and festivals, but rather desires to be loved and experienced by those who believe in Him.
Monday 2/09
Luke 4: 16
Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and, according to his custom, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read. Jesus observed the biblical prescriptions. He is the word made flesh, but He is so humble that He submits to the customs and lowers Himself to read what He Himself inspired the prophets and scribes to read, accepting to be misunderstood and cast out.
Tuesday 3/09
Luke 4, 33-35
In the synagogue there was a man who was possessed by an unclean demon. He began to cry out loudly: ‘Enough, what do you want of us, Jesus of Nazareth?’. Jesus’ presence disturbs those who seek to divert people from the truth, to subvert deliverance, to manipulate minds. Those who want to impose their power, today it is not a person, but a system, a culture that, like an octopus, grows larger and larger.
Wednesday 4/09
Luke 4, 40
At sunset all those who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him, and He, laying His hands on each one, healed them. Jesus continues to impose hands through the priests, but it is the faith of the one who receives the imposition and the one who gives it that a healing intervention always takes place, not as we wish, but as the Lord sees fit to give us what is truly good for us.
Thursday 5/09
Luke 5: 10-11
Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid, from now on you will be fishers of men. And having pulled the boats ashore, they left everything and followed him. We follow Jesus with our qualities and our faults, with our acquired skills and our frailties, with our failures and our virtues, the essential thing is to always follow the Lord.
Friday 6/09
Luke 5, 35
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then in those days they will fast. Fasting also means not conforming to the dominant strong thinking that normally excludes the gospel message or distorts its true meaning. And at worst it mocks and offends the person of Jesus.
Saturday 7/09
Luke 6, 5
And he said to them, ‘The son of man is Lord of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the time of encounter between God and man. Jesus is the only door through which every man can have access to God. Without this passage, God remains a myth, a human projection, a distant deity to be feared. Something unknowable.
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