Sunday, August 12, 2018

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Our readings for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time are:
  1. Proverbs 9: 1-6
  2. Psalms 34: 2-3, 4-5, 6-7
  3. Ephesians 5: 15-20
  4. John 6: 51-58
  • Food for the journey
    • Who in your life would you say has an abundance of wisdom?
    • Do you ever go to them for answers to specific issues, or wisdom in general?
    • How do we achieve wisdom?
    • How does one pass that along to others?
    • Should we all be wise, or is wisdom something that you can just "Google up"?
  • Tasting or savoring?
    • Why do you believe that God is good?
    • What does that really mean?  How could God be bad?
    • Does God's goodness require that He always be good to all of us all of the time?
    • How are you good to God?
  • No regrets
    • Looking back over your life, are there times or seasons that you wished that you had savored more?
    • What kept you from really appreciating those times as you went through them?
    • Do you think that you are getting the most out of today?
    • How do you think that you might become more aware of God's daily gift to/in/and through you?
    • Manna
      • The bread from heaven for the Jews would immediately make them think of the manna in the desert, one sign that God was with them during their time in the Sinai desert, a sign that they were God's people, a community in His care.
      • How does the Eucharist make a community of us?
      • Does that community just include those partaking of the Body and Blood that particular Mass, or does it include those who receive from that table by way of extraordinary Eucharistic ministers?
      • Does that community extend to the other communities, celebrating different Masses that day?
      • Does it include all Catholics celebrating Eucharist anywhere any time?
      • Or is that community, does God's love extend even farther?
      • What does this sort of community really mean?
    • Preparation for Reconciliation:
    1. What journey is God's wisdom taking me on today?
    2. What do I need to be more grateful for?
    3. How have I not been as present as I could be to those around me?
    4. How can I more deeply celebrate the whole community that God has called me into?

    Shalom!


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