Monday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time of the Year (C)
Mystery of the day: Joyful
Table of the Word: 1 Corinthians 5:1-8; Luke 6:6-11
Theme: Be renewed...
"Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed." (1 Corinthians 5:7)
Conversion of sinners and reconciliation to the Father was at the centre of the public ministry of Christ. He displayed this through teaching and healing. Though some were not interested out of ignorance but many who admitted His teaching in Spirit and Truth were saved.
On account of this that, St. Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthian Church admonished his hearers thus:
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed." (1 Corinthians 5:7).
This Pauline's writing invites us to put on a new cloak, a cloak of righteousness, purity of heart and mind so that we may be worthy of the Christian identity.
To butttres this point, the Psalmist in today's response avers:
"Lead me, Lord, in your justice." (Psalm 5:9a)
This humble prayer of the Psalmist puts us on the know that we cannot do without God, and He is there to salvage our inadequacies.
Let us therefore, beloved in Christ, think beyond this ephemeral realities and focus on the beyond. It is in doing this that our old leaven will be turned into a new lump. Peace! Be with you.
Let us pray
Merciful Lord, thank you for Your faithfulness and love. Grant we pray the grace go change our whithered cloak and put on the cloack of righteousness so that on the last day, we may see You in reality. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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