Saturday, February 22, 2014

Gospel Reflection

This weekend, we hear Jesus teaching the disciples to love everyone, neighbor or enemy.  For the most part, I find this pretty simple and straightforward.  But I do struggle, not with loving everyone, but certainly with liking everyone.  What about you?  Did something else stand out to you in this Sunday's gospel?
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  1. claireFebruary 23, 2014 at 4:29 AM

    I agree, loving enemies is challenging, but liking them is almost impossible!

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  2. Pilgrims9February 23, 2014 at 5:20 PM

    In the Eastern Catholic Churches, today is the Sunday of the Last Judgment (also known as Meatfare Sunday, traditionally the last day for eating meat before Lent begins). Today's Gospel reading was Christ's parable of the Last Judgment (Matthew 25:31-46), which teaches that it is not enough to see Jesus, to see ourselves as we are, & to come home to God as his prodigal sons (last Sunday was the Sunday of the Prodigal Son). The Church teaches us that, in addition, one must also be God’s sons by following Christ, His only-begotten divine Son, & by seeing Christ in everyone, & by serving Christ through them. Truly a challenge for us all!

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    1. CatholicMomInOzFebruary 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM

      Love this! I discussed with our Confirmation kids today how we are all called to be disciples and we do that by loving and serving God here on earth.

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    2. claireFebruary 24, 2014 at 7:00 AM

      Thank you for sharing this, Pilgrims. I have always been interested in the Eastern tradition.

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    3. Pilgrims9February 24, 2014 at 9:23 AM

      claire: If you are interested in learning more, Fr. Thomas Loya has some excellent podcasts from his Light of the East radio program:
      http://www.byzantinecatholic.com/radio.htm

      This chart shows the various of rites of the Eastern Catholic Churches, all fully Catholic & all in communion with Rome: http://www.byzantinecatholic.com/Supplement2.htm

      EWTN gives a good overview of the Eastern Churches: http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/catholic_rites_and_churches.htm

      Dr. Anthony Dragani's East2West website has some good info. & a decent Q&A section: http://www.east2west.org/

      The Byzantine Catholic Church in America also has some good links & resources:
      http://www.byzcath.org/

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