TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

Monday

Year I

Readings

First Reading
Rom 1:1–7

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 98:1bcde, 2–3ab, 3cd–4

Gospel
Lk 11:29–32

Meditation on Today’s Readings

Taken from the Vatican II Sunday and Weekday Missal
Written by Celia Sirois

The sayings of Jesus in today’s Gospel and the allegory of Paul in the letter to the Galatians both make the same claim: the revelation of God in Jesus is greater than Jonah, greater than Solomon, and even greater than Moses and the covenant he mediated. On the lips of Jesus and Paul, both of them Jews, such claims did not abrogate the sign of Jonah, or the wisdom of Solomon or the law of Moses. They simply affirmed that the revelation of Jesus surpassed that of Jonah and Solomon and Moses, surpassed without superseding it, that is, without making it now obsolete. The Hebrew Scriptures remained divine revelation, the word of God, for Jesus and Paul as they do for us.

The Gospel Paul proclaimed is summed up in the opening of Paul’s letter to the Romans. It is thoroughly Christo-centric. Designating the risen Jesus as “Son of God in power,” God identified him as the Messiah. The “Gospel of God” is that, in Jesus and through him, the messianic age of freedom and fullness of life has dawned.

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