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Friends of the Rosary,
Today, September 16, when we honor, as saints of the day, Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, and both, Martyrs, we read in the Gospel of Luke (7:31–35) how the Lord noted that the people of his generation criticize him as “a friend of tax collectors and sinners.”
“For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
But Jesus came as God to bring the light of divine presence and love into our fallen and dysfunctional world full of sin. He went to the poor, the disabled, the marginalized, the forgotten, those crippled by sin.
As Bishop Barron explains, “He came to bring the ordo of God into a disordered world. He came as the keynote to tune up a cacophonous universe. And thus the proponents of disorder and the producers of the cacophony sought to destroy him.”
“The Church is the mystical body of Jesus, the living organism that makes present Christ’s mind and will in the world. It is his love made flesh throughout the ages, his hands and feet and eyes and heart. We are all, through baptism, members of that body.”
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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