Thursday of the
Eleventh week in Ordinary Time
2 Cor. 11:1-11.
Brothers and sisters: If only you would put up with a little
foolishness from me! Please put up with me. For I am jealous of you with the
jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a
chaste virgin to Christ.
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his
cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere and pure commitment to
Christ.
For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one
we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or
a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough.
For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these
"superapostles."
Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in
knowledge; in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
Did I make a mistake when I humbled myself so that you might
be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
I plundered other churches by accepting from them in order
to minister to you.
And when I was with you and in need, I did not burden
anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. So I
refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. By the truth of
Christ in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of
Achaia. And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
Ps 111(110):1-2.3-4.7-8.
I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart
in the company and assembly of the just.
Great are the works of the LORD,
Exquisite in all their delights.
Majesty and glory are His work,
And His justice endures forever.
He has won renown for His wondrous deeds;
Gracious and merciful is the LORD.
The works of His hands are faithful and just;
Sure are all His precepts,
Reliable forever and ever,
Wrought in truth and equity.
Matt 6:7-15.
Jesus said to His disciples: “In praying, do not babble like
the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before
you ask Him.
This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed
be Your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from
the evil one.
If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly
Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father
forgive your transgressions.”
Commentary of the day
:
Give us this day our bread of life (John 6:35)
“Give us this day our daily bread”, your own beloved Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ, in memory, understanding and reverence of the love which
our Lord Jesus Christ had for us and of those things which He said and did and
suffered for us. “Forgive us our trespasses” through your ineffable mercy, through
the power of the passion of your beloved Son together with the merits and
intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all your chosen ones.
“As we forgive those who trespass against us”: and whatever
we do not forgive perfectly, do you, O Lord, enable us to forgive to the full so
that we may truly love our enemies and fervently intercede for them before you returning
no one evil for evil and striving to help everyone in you. “And lead us not
into temptation”, hidden or obvious, sudden or persistent. “But deliver us from
evil”, past, present and to come. Amen!
Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), Founder of the Friars
Minor
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