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Understand What Jesus Tells Us About Devotedness in Serving

Understand What Jesus Tells Us About Devotedness in Serving. Come and Share Your Master’s Joy! Today’s Gospel is at a point where Jesus is instructing His Church on the final things. He is in Jerusalem during his last week in this life. To help His disciples He tells them a parable about a master who is going away for a while. In speaking to His disciples Jesus is also speaking to us. As we know Jesus dies, rises and ascends into heaven. He will be away for a while. In the meantime, as in the parable, there are those who are sent forward in their master’s name. Today’s Gospel might at first glance be confusing as the Church places before us in the first reading the description of a good wife. Why does the Church pair that reading with the Gospel? Today’s opening prayer tells us what the Church is thinking. The prayer (not included within this audio) tells us there is a great joy in serving the Lord. We ask in the prayer for an increase in devotedness because happiness is found in servicing the Lord. When we hear these words in the prayer, we understand more about the first reading. Serving and caring about one another is a joy. Listen to Understand What Jesus Tells Us About Devotedness in Serving. Listen more to this Meditation Media. _______________________________________________________ Note: For a brief moment, the microphone partially cuts out. It is replaced. Be patient for the moment the first microphone fails.
Duration
22m
Broadcast on
24 Nov 2023
Audio Format
other
The Lord be with you, a reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. Jesus told his disciples this parable, a man going on a journey, called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one, he gave five talents, to another, two, to a third, one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them and made another five. Likewise, the one who received two made another two. The man who received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master's money. After a long time, the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them. The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, "Master, you gave me five talents." "See, I have made five more." His master said to him, "Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master's joy." Then the one who had received two talents also came forward and said, "Master, you gave me two talents. See, I have made two more." His master said to him, "Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master's joy." Then the one who had received the one talent came forward and said, "Master, I knew you were a demanding person, harvesting where you did not plant, and gathering where you did not scatter." So out of fear, I went off and buried your talent in the ground. Here it is, back. His master said to him in reply, "You wicked, lazy servant. So you knew that I harvest where I did not plant, and gather where I did not scatter. Should you not then have put my money in the bank, so that I could have got it back with interest on my return?" Now then, take the talent from him and give it to the one with ten. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will grow rich. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And throw this useless servant into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth, the gospel of the Lord. This remarkable gospel reading that the church places before us today is at a point where Jesus is instructing his church on the final things. He is in Jerusalem, this is during the last week of his life, and he knows what is coming on that first good Friday. And after that first good Friday, when he will eventually ascend into heaven and leave his church behind on earth to continue his work. And to help his disciples understand what that is, he gives them this parable of the Lord, the man, going away on a journey, and he will be gone for quite a while. And in speaking this way, the Lord is also reminding us that after he ascends into heaven, he will physically be gone for quite a while, but he will be coming back. And in the meantime, there are those who are sent forward to serve in the master's name. But in addition to placing this reading in front of us and the reading having this context,

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Understand What Jesus Tells Us About Devotedness in Serving. Come and Share Your Master’s Joy! Today’s Gospel is at a point where Jesus is instructing His Church on the final things. He is in Jerusalem during his last week in this life. To help His disciples He tells them a parable about a master who is going away for a while. In speaking to His disciples Jesus is also speaking to us. As we know Jesus dies, rises and ascends into heaven. He will be away for a while. In the meantime, as in the parable, there are those who are sent forward in their master’s name. Today’s Gospel might at first glance be confusing as the Church places before us in the first reading the description of a good wife. Why does the Church pair that reading with the Gospel? Today’s opening prayer tells us what the Church is thinking. The prayer (not included within this audio) tells us there is a great joy in serving the Lord. We ask in the prayer for an increase in devotedness because happiness is found in servicing the Lord. When we hear these words in the prayer, we understand more about the first reading. Serving and caring about one another is a joy. Listen to Understand What Jesus Tells Us About Devotedness in Serving. Listen more to this Meditation Media. _______________________________________________________ Note: For a brief moment, the microphone partially cuts out. It is replaced. Be patient for the moment the first microphone fails.