Grace All the More

Greetings on this the Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings: Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21; Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17; Lk 12:35-38
Notes: Recently many of my fellow bloggers are enjoying the great outdoors and seeing the beauty of creation and the spiritual nature of all creation. Same here.

These joys and tranquility and sense of belonging are gifts.
Even in our brokenness we see these gifts.

Grace overflows all the more.

Just as trails are marked so is our pathway through life. Nature is given as gift. Forgiveness as gift. Each other as gift. Yourself, your very self, is gift to you.

Difficulty comes. Gird your loins and light your lamps.

He comes to your aid as friend and savior. It is work to be good and it is good work.
It is hard to be a lamp, shine anyway. Peer into the future. Look attentively around you and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding.

From our psalms today:

May all who seek you
exult and be glad in you,
And may those who love your salvation
say ever, "The LORD be glorified."

Peace to Palestine and Israel.

First Reading
Brothers and sisters: Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through justification for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Responsorial
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.

Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Burnt offerings or sin offerings you sought not;
then said I, "Behold I come."

Gospel Acclamation
Be vigilant at all times and pray that you may have the strength to stand before the Son of Man.

Gospel
Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.

Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry