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Soften Your Heart July 13, 2023 Thursday
Soften Your Heart
July 13, 2023
Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
Saint Henry—Optional Memorial
“Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words—go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet. Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.” Matthew 10:14–15
*Mtakatifu Giovanni Gaulbert, Abate*
*Mtakatifu Giovanni Gaulbert, Abate*
Mtakatifu Giovanni Gaulbert,alizaliwa mwaka 985,Florence,Italia.Alisoma mapema,na kaka yake wa pekee,Hugo,aliuwawa.
Mtakatifu Giovanni aliamua kuacha vyote ili alipize kisasi kwa kumuua huyo,aliyemuua nduguye.Ikatokea siku ya Ijumaa kuu,Giovanni aliingia mjini Florence akifuatana na wenzake,wakiwa na silaha.
Katika njia nyembamba,alikutana na muuaji wa kaka yake.Akaamua kumuua ili kutimiza kisasi chake.Wenzake wote wakapiga magoti mbele, silaha zao wakaziweka kama msalaba,wakimuomba Giovanni asimuue mtu yule, kwa kuwa ilikuwa siku ambayo wakristu hukumbuka kifo cha Bwana Yesu.
Homilia Jumatano tar 12 Julai 2023
Ndugu zangu wapendwa,
Leo tunasoma kutoka Injili ya Mathayo, sura ya 10, mstari wa 1 hadi 7. Katika kifungu hiki, tunaona jinsi Yesu alivyowatuma wanafunzi wake kwa utume. Naomba tuangalie kwa karibu maneno haya na kujifunza kutoka kwao.
Yesu alipoita wanafunzi wake, hakutaka wawepo tu kama wafuasi wake, bali aliwapa pia mamlaka na uwezo wa kutenda kazi kama yeye alivyokuwa akifanya. Alitaka waweze kuponya wagonjwa, kuwafukuza pepo wachafu, na hata kufufua wafu. Hii ilikuwa ni ishara ya jinsi alivyowapenda na kuwathamini wanafunzi wake.
Lakini Yesu aliwapa amri moja muhimu sana: "Nendeni, msitangaze Ufalme wa Mungu kwa watu wa mataifa mengine." Yesu aliwataka wanafunzi wake kushiriki habari njema na kila mtu waliokutana naye. Hawakupaswa kufanya ubaguzi au kuwabagua watu kwa sababu ya kabila zao, utaifa wao, au hali yao ya kijamii. Habari njema ya Ufalme wa Mungu ilikuwa kwa ajili ya kila mtu.
REFLECTION CAPSULE – July 12, 2023: Wednesday
REFLECTION CAPSULE – July 12, 2023: Wednesday
“Co-operating with Jesus, our ‘Strange Master,’ Who calls us to ‘Dare to be Different!’”
(Based on Gen 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a and Mt 10:1-7 – Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1)
Jesus is strange!
And he loves to do strange things!
“Dare to be different” is a call which echoes very much through the corporate sector today, and also in many areas of our life!
And Jesus, certainly, is a model and an example for each one of us, in this ‘Daring to be Different’!
Proclaiming the Kingdom July 12, 2023
Proclaiming the Kingdom
July 12, 2023
Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” Matthew 10:5–7
The very last words of Jesus, just prior to His Ascension into Heaven, expands the mandate we read above that Jesus gave to His Apostles. He later says, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit…” (Matthew 28:19).