For 20 October 2022, Thursday of week 29 in Ordinary Time, based on Luke 12:49-53
Jesus said to his disciples, ‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided:
father against son
and son against father,
mother against daughter
and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Beth McCormick, O.P.
Sr. Beth, a Dominican Sister of Hope, is now retired from active ministry. Her ministries have included high school and college teaching and administration, congregational leadership, prison ministry, spiritual direction, facilitation of retreats and workshops primarily on a spirituality of aging, and preaching.
20 Oct 2022
The Risk and the Grace
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Jesus said to his disciples, ‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided:
father against son
and son against father,
mother against daughter
and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Beth McCormick, O.P.
Sr. Beth, a Dominican Sister of Hope, is now retired from active ministry. Her ministries have included high school and college teaching and administration, congregational leadership, prison ministry, spiritual direction, facilitation of retreats and workshops primarily on a spirituality of aging, and preaching.