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Today's Gospel
Ask for Resurrection
4 min
Gospel
Lk 7:11-17
Soon afterward he went to a city called Na′in, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” And this report concerning him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.
Readings are from Dynamic Catholic’s New Testament Bible: RSV Catholic Edition
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Transcript
Ask for Resurrection
What is it that jumps out at you today? Is there a word or a phrase or an idea that the Holy Spirit used to capture attention, to intrigue your imagination? The question I said before at the beginning was, what part of your life needs to be raised up, needs resurrection? Because I think sometimes it's easy for us to forget that our God is a God of resurrection. He's a God of second chances, and that Jesus is resurrection. And so if we need resurrection, sometimes it might not be our whole life. It might be one part of our life. It might be, "Oh, yeah. Haven't been working that hard at school. My studies need resurrection." Or, "My career needs resurrection." Or, "My relationship with my girlfriend needs resurrection." Or, "My marriage needs resurrection." Or, "My health needs resurrection." Or, "My personal finances need resurrection." And so Jesus is resurrection. And it's important for us to think of Him as resurrection because if we don't, then we fall into the trap of not asking for resurrection when we need resurrection.
The other phrase that jumped out of me today was when Jesus came upon this scene, and there's this mother, a widow, and this crowd. It says, "And when the Lord saw her," the widow, "the mother of the dead child, he had compassion on her." We see this over and over throughout the Scriptures. We see Jesus' enormous empathy for people. He looked at the crowd. He saw they were like sheep without a shepherd, had compassion upon them. And so I think sometimes it's easy to fall into living our religion in a way that lacks empathy. And I think one of the great criticisms of religion throughout the ages of people claiming to represent religion has been their lack of empathy for people in real suffering, people enduring unbearable pain. And so Jesus' empathy is a call for us to live out our faith with enormous compassion, with gigantic empathy. And so as we go through our day-to-day, let's bring that empathy, Jesus' empathy, into the world. Have a great day and remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.
