The Word every day: 8-14 September, 2024
Commentary on the Readings of the Day by Father Giordano Favillini
Sunday 8/09
Mark 7, 33
They brought him a deaf-mute, took him aside, put his fingers in his ears with saliva, and touched his tongue. Looking up to heaven, he uttered a sigh and said to him, ‘And Fatah’, that is, open. Man is made to praise God, to proclaim with word and life, love. But sin closes, blocks. Jesus opens, frees love and allows man to fully realise his identity as son and guardian of creation.
Monday 9/09
Luke 6, 8-10B
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to the man whose hand was paralysed, ‘Get up and stand here in the middle. Hold out your hand’. He did so and his hand was healed. Living a relationship of faith with Jesus always restores order to human existence, that which is deviated, wounded, sick, offended, finds healing and its true identity.
Tuesday 10/09
Luke 6, 12
In those days Jesus went up the mountain to pray and spent the whole night praying to God. Prayer is dialogue with God. Silence and solitude are essential to hear what the Lord is saying to us in the depths of our hearts. And in the heart to express what we need. Prayer is a matter of the heart.
Wednesday 11/09
Luke 6, 26
Woe when all men say well of you. In the same way their fathers acted with the false prophets. Let us not be disturbed by criticism, by those who challenge us for the faith we profess or for the testimony we try to give to the good. Good works and the proclamation of the truth of the Gospel always arouse aversion in those who do not feel consistent with them.
Thursday 12/09
Luke 6:37
Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. God does not judge us, but it is the life we have lived that will judge us. Our actions will be our judge. But more merciful than our conscience and ourselves is always God.
Friday 13/09
Luke 6, 41
Why do you look at the mote in your brother’s eye and not notice the beam in your own eye? It is easy to look at the faults of others, because then we do not see our own, and attacking our neighbour is a way of hiding our own vices and deviations from ourselves. The accusers are those who most commit the evils, which they impute to others.
Saturday 14/09
John 3:14-15
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life. The crucifixion of Jesus is an elevation of pain, of moral suffering, of death. Although they remain negative realities, they acquire meaning. They are redeemed by Jesus and become a means of sanctification and lead us into eternal life.