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GOSPEL POWER l AUGUST 21, 2022 - SUNDAY
GOSPEL POWER l AUGUST 21, 2022 - SUNDAY
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Lk 13:22-30
22Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He said to them, 24“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. 25When once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then in reply he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27But he will say, ‘I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out. 29Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. 30Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
Unlike in Matthew’s version of this passage (7:13-14), where Jesus speaks of two gates and focuses his invitation on choosing the narrow one, here in Luke’s version, Jesus speaks only of the narrow gate and focuses his invitation on striving to get into it. Striving evokes images of painstaking and repeated application of strength. Entry through the narrow gate is not a once-and-for-all effort that yields success, but a day-to-day effort which gradually builds up our strength for the definitive final step that will get us inside. Without perseverance and constancy, one cannot gather the needed strength and thus fall away. And that is how the attempt of many ended up. But the call of Jesus is, “Keep striving!” While the gate is open, we must not lose the opportunity to try to get in, for there is an appointed time when it will be shut and locked. If we find ourselves locked out, there is no one to blame but our own neglect. Lord Jesus, may we never relax our effort to enter through the narrow door by giving in to the lure of ease and idleness. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER l AUGUST 21, 2022 - SUNDAY
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Lk 13:22-30
22Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He said to them, 24“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. 25When once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then in reply he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27But he will say, ‘I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out. 29Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. 30Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
Unlike in Matthew’s version of this passage (7:13-14), where Jesus speaks of two gates and focuses his invitation on choosing the narrow one, here in Luke’s version, Jesus speaks only of the narrow gate and focuses his invitation on striving to get into it. Striving evokes images of painstaking and repeated application of strength. Entry through the narrow gate is not a once-and-for-all effort that yields success, but a day-to-day effort which gradually builds up our strength for the definitive final step that will get us inside. Without perseverance and constancy, one cannot gather the needed strength and thus fall away. And that is how the attempt of many ended up. But the call of Jesus is, “Keep striving!” While the gate is open, we must not lose the opportunity to try to get in, for there is an appointed time when it will be shut and locked. If we find ourselves locked out, there is no one to blame but our own neglect. Lord Jesus, may we never relax our effort to enter through the narrow door by giving in to the lure of ease and idleness. Amen.