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Responding to the Voice of God July 10, 2023 Monday
Responding to the Voice of God
July 10, 2023
Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.” Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.” And from that hour the woman was cured. Matthew 9:20–21
What a tremendous amount of faith this woman had! She had suffered for many years and
Mhashamu Protase Rugambwa sasa Mhadhama
Mhashamu Protase Rugambwa sasa Mhadhama.
Baba Mtakatifu Fransisco amemteua Askofu mkuu Mwandamizi Protase Rugambwa kuwa Kadinali. Mhashamu Protase Rugambwa ni mwandamizi wa kiti cha uaskofu Jimbo kuu Katoliki la Tabora.
Hongera sana Mhashamu Rugambwa.
REFLECTION CAPSULE – July 09, 2023: Sunday
REFLECTION CAPSULE – July 09, 2023: Sunday
“Holding our heads high in firm faith and trust, knowing that we have a God who is deeply in love with us!”
(Based on Zec 9:9-10, Rom 8:9, 11-13 and Mt 11:25-30 – 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A)
This common incident is told of a speaker in a motivational session, who began the seminar by holding up a 2000 rupee note.
With the audience curiously looking at the crisp-note, the speaker asked, “Who among
you would like to have this 2000 Rupee note?”
Needless to say, all the hands in that seminar-hall went up.
The speaker was not surprised.
He then said, “I will surely give this note to a lucky one among you… but first, let me do this…”
The Light Burden of Grace July 9, 2023 Fourteenth Sunday
The Light Burden of Grace
July 9, 2023
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Readings for Today
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Matthew 11:28–30
Around the year 167 BC, two new groups of religious leaders emerged within Judaism: the scribes and Pharisees. By the time that Jesus walked the earth, these religious leaders had developed many customs, false doctrines and religious practices that they claimed were derived from the Law of Moses. However, Jesus condemned their teachings as scrupulous, self-centered, and hypocritical. What they taught was often a distortion of the Law. Recall, for example, that the Pharisees condemned the disciples for picking heads of wheat and eating them on the Sabbath, claiming that this violated the Third Commandment. Clearly, Jesus taught that it didn’t.
Homilia Jumapili ya 14 ya Mwaka A wa Kanisa
Ndugu zangu wapendwa,
Leo, tunakusanyika hapa kusoma na kushiriki katika Neno la Mungu kutoka kitabu cha Mathayo, sura ya 11, aya 25 hadi 30. Katika mistari hii, Yesu anatoa mwaliko mzito kwa kila mmoja wetu kumpokea na kumtumaini yeye.
Yesu anasema, "Nakushukuru, Baba, Bwana wa mbingu na nchi, kwa kuwa mambo haya uliwaficha wenye hekima na akili, ukawafunulia watoto wachanga. Naam, Baba, kwa kuwa ndivyo ilivyopendeza mbele zako." Katika maneno haya, tunapata wito wa Yesu kumshukuru Mungu kwa kutujalia ujuzi na ufahamu wa mambo ya Ufalme wa Mungu. Kwa neema ya Mungu, tunaweza kuelewa na kuishi kulingana na mapenzi yake.