Healing Broken Hearts

Luke 20:27-40  Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying.. 

The question raised in the gospel is not really about ‘whose wife will she be in heaven’ but do you believe in the Resurrection. At the end of our liturgical year, the Church invites us to reflect on our ‘now‘ moment and connect it with the ‘hour of our death’. 

Luke 16:9-15 Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings

Ignatius’ Principle and Foundation grace of holy indifference which expose our inordained attachments, will help free us from our inordinate attachments and live for that which we were created, to praise, reverence and serve god. 

Luke 14:1, 7-11   On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully.

In today’s gospel, Jesus turns the tables on Pharisees, exposing their pride and insecurity and revealing absolute necessity of the virtue of humility. 

Luke 13:1-9  ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’ 

What must I do to bear good fruit? The paradox of the spiritual life, is primarily not really doing but letting something be done unto us.  Imitating Mary we first have to  “Let it be done unto me” and then fruitfulness will follow. 

Matthew 18:1-5, 10 “See that you do not despise little ones, for I say that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.” 

Devotion to our Guardian Angels is not just a piety for children, they are given to us by God and intercede for us constantly.

Luke 9:43b-45  While they were all amazed at his every deed, Jesus said to his disciples, “Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” 

Jesus wants to deter the disciples and each of us from falling into the trap of seeking our identity from the approval of the world, or others. Our identity is received not achieved.  

Luke 8:4-15 “But as for the seed that fell on rich soil, they are the ones who, when they have heard the word, embrace it with a generous and good heart, and bear fruit through perseverance.” ‘Nunc Coepi’, Latin for “Begin Again”, an attitude, a spiritual posture of trusting in Divine Mercy which is essential for finishing the race.

Luke 6:43-49 “I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, listens to my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock”. 

At the heart of the principle and foundation of the Spiritual Exercises is an awareness of how utterly dependent I am on God for everything. 

Luke 6:1-5

The chosen episode number 6, season 2 depicts the scene from todays gospel of Jesus and his disciples being confronted by the Pharisees for violating the sabbath. 

True worship is brings about integration to the whole of our whole lives. 

St. Catherine said: “Come who you are called to be and you will set the world on fire.” 

What are your ‘talents’? Patrick Lencioni, author of Five Dysfuncitons of a Team, came up with ’WIDGET’ 6 types of working genius. Google it! (Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement, Tenacity) When I discover where God has naturally gifted me, I can embrace those areas and recognize areas I‘m just not naturally gifted in, and therefore need others in the mystical body of Christ to help me.

Matthew 25:14-30