Luke 10:41

Luke 10:41

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Luke 10:41 episodes

  • Meet Jesus - First Sunday of Advent 2022

    When you were a little kid someone had to teach you how to meet people. We don’t think about it a lot, but meeting people is a skill and like every skill we can be better or worse at it and we can improve or get worse. Two factors influence our practice for anything: the probability of the event occurring and the importance of that event. The greater the probability or the importance of an event the more preparation for action we are willing to undertake. The Lord tells us in the Gospel for the First Sunday of Advent of a meeting between him and us which will happen and which will be life altering. He will come again and his coming will change everything. Given the probability (100%) and the importance of this meeting (infinite), we each need to ask ourselves a question: Does my entire way of acting in the world reflect the fact that the King is coming and I will meet him?

    But how? How do you get ready to meet Jesus at the end of time or at the end of your life? The same way you get ready for any other thing: you practice, and you learn from others who have practiced. You learn how to meet Jesus by meeting him and learning from others who have met him.

    What kind of meeting do we need now to practice? The meeting we desire to have now with the Lord is one that leads us to discover (or rediscover) who Jesus is, why he matters, and which leads to a desire to follow him as a disciple. It is only that type of resolve that will make the meeting we experience at the end of time not be like that of strangers but rather that of friends. A disciple is one who has resolved to run to meet the Lord in every aspect of his life his life has been changed because he knows Jesus. He is a friend of the king who is coming.

    How can you set aside 5 minutes each day to meet Jesus?

    12 min
  • 3rd Sunday of Lent: The Woman at the Well

    John 4:5-42

    Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar,

    near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
    Jacob’s well was there.
    Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well.
    It was about noon.

    A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

    Jesus said to her,
    “Give me a drink.”
    His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
    The Samaritan woman said to him,
    “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”
    —For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.—
    Jesus answered and said to her,
    “If you knew the gift of God
    and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink, ‘
    you would have asked him
    and he would have given you living water.”
    The woman said to him,
    “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep;
    where then can you get this living water?
    Are you greater than our father Jacob,
    who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself
    with his children and his flocks?”
    Jesus answered and said to her,
    “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again;
    but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst;
    the water I shall give will become in him
    a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
    The woman said to him,
    “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty
    or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

    Jesus said to her,

    “Go call your husband and come back.”
    The woman answered and said to him,
    “I do not have a husband.”
    Jesus answered her,
    “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’
    For you have had five husbands,
    and the one you have now is not your husband.
    What you have said is true.”
    The woman said to him,
    “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.
    Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain;
    but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”
    Jesus said to her,
    “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming
    when you will worship the Father
    neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
    You people worship what you do not understand;
    we worship what we understand,
    because salvation is from the Jews.
    But the hour is coming, and is now here,
    when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth;
    and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him.
    God is Spirit, and those who worship him
    must worship in Spirit and truth.”
    The woman said to him,
    “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ;
    when he comes, he will tell us everything.”
    Jesus said to her,
    “I am he, the one speaking with you.”

    At that moment his disciples returned,

    and were amazed that he was talking with a woman,
    but still no one said, “What are you looking for?”
    or “Why are you talking with her?”
    The woman left her water jar
    and went into the town and said to the people,
    “Come see a man who told me everything I have done.
    Could he possibly be the Christ?”
    They went out of the town and came to him.
    Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat.”
    But he said to them,
    “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
    So the disciples said to one another,
    “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
    Jesus said to them,
    “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me
    and to finish his work.
    Do you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’?
    I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest.
    The reaper is already receiving payment
    and gathering crops for eternal life,
    so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together.
    For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’
    I sent you to reap what you have not worked for;
    others have done the work,
    and you are sharing the fruits of their work.”

    Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him

    because of the word of the woman who testified,
    “He told me everything I have done.”
    When the Samaritans came to him,
    they invited him to stay with them;
    and he stayed there two days.
    Many more began to believe in him because of his word,
    and they said to the woman,
    “We no longer believe because of your word;
    for we have heard for ourselves,
    and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”

    11 min

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Fr. Will is a Priest of the Diocese of Austin, TX - He sometimes blogs at. https://luke1041.com/