15th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME – CYCLE C - 2019
Ø The readings on the two last Sundays were
about calling and sending.
Ø Today the Lord will teach one of his best and
more beautiful lessons “who is my neighbor?”
FIRST
READING Deut 30:10-14
ü Moses invites the people to turn back to the
Lord, to listen and to obey his voice.
ü The commandments or the words of love
pronounced by the Lord to his people are
o
Neither too
difficult that we cannot understand them
o
Nor beyond our
own reach that we cannot fulfill them.
ü The commandments, the words of love, the voice
of God is within each one of us.
ü And, through them the Lord teaches us to
become more and more human.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM - Salmo 69, 14 y 17. 30-31. 33-34. 36ab y 37
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
I pray to you, O LORD,
for the time of your favor, O God!
In your great kindness, answer me
with your constant help.
Answer me, O LORD, for bounteous is your kindness:
in your great mercy turn toward me.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me.
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
"See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not."
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
For God will save Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah.
The descendants of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall inhabit it.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live
I pray to you, O LORD,
for the time of your favor, O God!
In your great kindness, answer me
with your constant help.
Answer me, O LORD, for bounteous is your kindness:
in your great mercy turn toward me.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me.
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
"See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not."
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
For God will save Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah.
The descendants of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall inhabit it.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live
ü
The refrain is like a background music that invites us to turn
back to the Lord, in order to live
ü
The Lord is good, tender, generous, he hears all those who are
afflicted in some way
ü
The whole psalm is an invitation to trust lovingly in the Lord
our God.
SECOND
READING . Col 1:15-20
§
The biblical scholars do not agree on the origin and author of
this letter
§
Some looking at the vocabulary, the theology of the author and
from the context of the letter thing that it was written by Paul towards the
end of the 50’s.
§
Others, for almost the same reason think that it had been
written by a disciple of Paul, in this case the date might be around the year
80.
§
The Christological hymn, that we will read is a work of art or a
great beauty
§
He is the visible image of the Father
§ The first to be raised
from the dead
§
He is the head of the Church.
§
By his blood shed on the cross he has reconciled us.
§
This reconciliation, this peace reaches all the beings, the
whole creation.
GOSPEL
– Lk 10:25-37
A teacher of the law
wants to know which one is the greatest or most important commandment
Luke explains that he
makes the question to put Jesus to the test.
Jesus turns the question
on him, what do you read in the Law?
The teacher recites the
first commandment “you shall love the Lord your God… and your neighbor as
yourself”
Good answer, but the
teachers wants to show that he is righteous but does not know
And, who is my
neighbor?
Jesus tells him, tells
us one of the most beautiful parables, to explain, “who is my neighbor?”
A man had been wounded
and robbed and left half dead on the road.
Jesus uses a great deal
of irony in this parable
By the same road, two
other persons, men, were coming down. These two men were professionals of
religion; probably they knew all the laws included the laws of hospitality.
The first sees and moves
to the other side of the road, the second does the same. Why? How sad if it is
to arrive on time to the temple to be able to glorify God, because the glory of
God is the man alive.
Now, a third man comes,
an outcast because he is a foreigner and thus he is considered to be dangerous,
maybe even criminal, or thief. However,
this man does neither harm nor robe anyone.
He is a Samaritan, a
semi-pagan for the Jews. This man sees and acts. He cleans and puts oil in the
wounds of the man on the road, he puts
him on his donkey and takes him to the inn.
He stays with him that
night to take care of him, and the following morning he gives money to the
innkeeper asking him to take care of the wounded man.
Who is my neighbor of
the man wounded on the road? We know the answer
I think that this parable speaks clearly to us in our
present political and social situation. It teaches us to trust and do
not condemn the foreigner because he or she is a foreigner, someone different
from us, of a different color, nationality, status, belief, political
association, different customs, language…..
We are invited to have
an open heart where any human being may be welcome,,may find shelter,
love… “Let us go and do
likewise”.
CLARETIAN CORNER
In this year, 1854, our Lord gave me a
continuous communication with his Divine Majesty that it seems that a creature
would not be able to live in this miserable life with such intimate
communication with God. I do not know if I would be able to explain how it was.
It seems that our Lord had my soul
inside in the most sacred place of his heart, and there he was communicating
his eternal dispositions, with so much grace and love, like a best friend treats
his equal; and if these two friends have not seen each other for so long,
they have many things to tell each
other; and they need time to talk alone. It seems that our Lord would look for
hidden moments to talk to my soul; and enjoy with it in intimate communication.
I do not know if I am saying nonsense, but there is nothing that can compare with
how our Lord treated my soul with such love and familiarity during that time.
What I saw especially in the divine secret was the state of the church, and the
ways and means determined by the Blessed Trinity in order that the Divine
commandments be followed faithfully. This is what took much of attention of our
Lord; he would present it to me now in this way, then in another, but always
was the same. This communication our Lord did it with much gentleness and speed
that in spite that my soul was so much inside the Divine secret, that in my
understanding I did not get out of it, I never understood why our Lord
communicated those thing to me, until at the end of the year our Lord deigned
to give me the following vision. Venerable María Antonia París, Foundress
of the Claretian Missionary Sisters, Autobiography 48.
Mi padre me
ocupó en todas las clases de labores que hay en una fábrica completa de hilados
y tejidos, y por una larga temporada me puso juntamente con otro joven a dar la
última mano a las labores que hacían los demás. Cuando teníamos que corregir a
alguno, a mí me daba mucha pena y, sin embargo, lo hacía, pero antes observaba
si había en aquella labor alguna cosa que estuviese bien, y por allí empezaba
haciendo el elogio de aquello, diciendo que aquello estaba muy bien sólo que
tenía este y este defecto, que, corregidos aquellos defectillos, sería una
labor perfecta.
My father set me to work on every job available in his well-equipped little
thread and textile factory. For a long time I and another young man were in
charge of putting the finishing touches on the work of everyone else in the
shop. Whenever we had to correct anyone, it upset me a great deal; yet I did my
duty. I always tried to find something good to say about the piece of finished
work. I would praise its good points, saying that this or that about it was
very good but that it had such and such a defect and if these little defects
were corrected, it would really be a perfect job.
I didn't know why I did things this way, but in time I came to see that it
was the result of a special grace of kindness that the Lord had granted me.
This is why the workers always took correction from me and mended their ways.
My friend, however, who was a better worker than I but lacked this gift of
kindness, always got upset when he had to correct anybody. He would scold the
workers harshly and they would get angry, and often they wouldn't know what it was
they were supposed to correct. I learned from this that everyone, even the
rudest people, should be treated kindly and affably and that much more may be
gained by kindness than by harshness and irritability. Saint Anthony Mary Claret, founder of the Claretian
Missionary Sisters, Autobiography 33-34.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CLARET,
Saint Anthony Mary. Autobiography.
PARIS, Venerable María
Antonia. Autobiography
US Conference of Catholic Bishops, usccb.org
SAGRADA
BIBLIA, Versión oficial de la Conferencia episcopal española.
Comentario al Nuevo
Testamento. La Casa de la Biblia.
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