TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

Saturday

Year I

Readings

First Reading
Rom 4:13, 16–18

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 105:6–7, 8–9, 42–43

Gospel
Lk 12:8–12

Meditation on Today’s Readings

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

In today’s reading Paul tells the Romans that all “depends on faith, so that it may be a gift.” The author of the letter to the Ephesians, having heard of that community’s faith, gives thanks for the way in which God’s grace—“the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe”—has manifested itself in them and through them.

The vision of Ephesians is triumphant. The Gospel, however, envisions a different scenario. The promised triumph, “before the angels of God” at the judgment, will depend on the disciples’ uncompromising loyalty to the Son of Man when they are brought before the judges of this world. But even here those who live by faith in the God “who gives life to the dead” are assured of God’s grace. Jesus says, “Do not worry about how or what your defense will be or about what you are to say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you should say.”

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