November
11, 2015
Wednesday
of the Thirty-second week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the day : Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop (397)
Readings
2Hearken, you who are in power over
the multitude and lord it over throngs of peoples! 3Because authority was given you by
the LORD and sovereignty by the Most High, who shall probe your works and
scrutinize your counsels! 4Because, though you were
ministers of His kingdom, you judged not rightly, and did not keep the law, nor
walk according to the will of God,[1]
5Terribly and swiftly shall He come
against you, because judgment is stern for the exalted - 6For the lowly may be pardoned out
of mercy but the mighty shall be mightily put to the test.
7For the Lord of all shows no
partiality, nor does He fear greatness, Because He Himself made the great as
well as the small, and He provides for all alike; 8but for those in power a rigorous
scrutiny impends.
9To you, therefore, O princes, are
my words addressed that you may learn wisdom and that you may not sin. 10For those who keep the holy
precepts hallowed shall be found holy, and those learned in them will have
ready a response.[2] 11Desire therefore my words; long
for them and you shall be instructed.
3“Defend the lowly and fatherless;
render justice to the afflicted and needy. 4Rescue the lowly and poor; deliver
them from the hand of the wicked.”
6I declare: “Gods though you be, offspring of the Most High all of you, 7Yet like any mortal you shall die;
like any prince you shall fall.”
11As He continued His journey to
Jerusalem, He traveled through Samaria and Galilee.[3][4] 12As He was entering a village, ten
lepers met (Him). They stood at a distance from Him 13and raised their voice, saying,
"Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!"
14And when He saw them, He said,
"Go show yourselves to the priests." 5As they were going they were
cleansed.[5] 15And one of them, realizing he had
been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; 16and he fell at the feet of Jesus
and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.
17Jesus said in reply, "Ten
were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine?
18 Has none but this foreigner
returned to give thanks to God?" 19Then He said to him, "Stand
up and go; your faith has saved you."
Notes on Readings
[2] The Book of Wisdom 6:10 - Response: a suitable plea before the great Judge. Compare with Proverbs 2:21; Job 31:14; Hebrew 2:1; Sirach 8:9.
[3] Luke 17:11-19 - This incident recounting the thankfulness
of the cleansed Samaritan leper is narrated only in Luke's gospel and provides
an instance of Jesus holding up a non-Jew (Luke 17:18) as an example to his Jewish
contemporaries (compare with Luke 10:33) where a similar purpose is achieved in the story of the good Samaritan).
Moreover, it is the faith in Jesus manifested by the foreigner that has brought
him salvation (Luke 17:19;
compare with the similar relationship between faith and salvation in Luke 7:50; 8:48.
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Dear Humanity,
I personally encourage everyone to emulate JESUS' values on LOVE, FAITH, HOPE
and CHARITY, as the humanity has been a failure; which resulted to the more than two (2) years of pandemic and its after-effects on economy, not only here in the Philippines but worldwide.
And the saddest part of it, is that, it affected the POOREST of the POOR to even extremely be more poorer, in exchange of the affluent to be more richer.
Thank you and may GOD bless you and the whole family to have an enjoyed life's journey at home, Church, schools/universities, corporate commitments, public and places of interest.