July 7 // 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I: Isaiah 66:10-14c
Responsorial Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20
Reading II: Galatians 6:14-18
Gospel: Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 or 10:1-9

Who knew God presents godself with motherly attributes in several scriptures? The whole Church throughout the world hears Isaiah 66:10-14 this weekend. This image is one of many representing the divine. Hope you are so blessed as to have been comforted by our gracious God who does carry us “in her arm,” and “comforts her child.” God is more than any image scripture shows us and surely more than any we can articulate. We come to God with our every sorrow and woe and with every need and crisis. St. (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta did not receive the comforts of God and yet she kept on doing God’s work, being a more than human comfort to poor and dying in the streets of Calcutta and being a living, breathing witness to this image of God’s compassion. We are also doing the same in our quiet ways of caring for the dying and the poor.

Our Gospel today has us sent by God to bring peace to every household. Oh, you didn’t think you were among those God sends? From our very Baptism and from every Mass we are empowered to bring Christ’s peace whether we feel peaceful or not. Few FEEL sent on a mission to carry Christ’s peace but all are, in fact, commissioned.

Deni Mack, D. Min
Pastoral Associate