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Today's Gospel
Follow Where God Leads
3 min
Gospel
Mt 8:5-11
As he entered Caper′na-um, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion answered him, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Readings are from Dynamic Catholic’s New Testament Bible: RSV Catholic Edition
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Transcript
Follow Where God Leads
What jumps out at you today?
The phrase that jumped out at me is the centurion says to Jesus, "I am a man under authority." And then he explains, "And I have men under my authority, and I say do this, and they do it, and I say, come here and they come here. And I say, go there and they go there." And so the centurion explains this concept of authority. But first, he acknowledges, he recognizes, he confesses that he himself is a man under authority. And I am a man under authority. You are a man or a woman under authority. But do we think of ourselves that way? I think not, very often.
I think very often in our society, we're taught to think of ourselves as deciding everything, self-determining everything. And it's easy to forget in all of that that we are under authority, that we are answerable to a great king. Only then do we start to listen to his voice so that when he says, "Come here," we come. And when he says, "Go there," we go. And when he says, "Do this," we do it. Let's try to listen to that voice in a new way today, and to follow where he leads us. Have a great day, and remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.
