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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time



All of our religious life is peppered with yeses to God in one form or another. We speak them in hymn and creed and prayer: We spout our God directed yeses to His commandments and miracles alike, declaring unswerving faith from Bethlehem to the garden of the Resurrection. But before we allow our many yeses, sung, spoken or thought, to lull us into spiritual smugness consider the story Jesus tells in today's Gospel.

This is a story of a yes-man who failed to follow through, and a nay-sayer who turned his life around. The turn about ending gives us all pause. Are we yes-men, agreeing with God out of habit, but letting our feet wander in the opposite direction? If so, take heart. Today's lesson invites us to make good on yesterday's yeses and even turn around the times we may have uttered a no. The important thing is to set our hands and hearts to the tasks He has given us. Our yes-es aren't enough. Make your works, not your words, speak for themselves.    

Today's Gospel

  • Jn 15:9-11
    9: As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10: If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11: These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full....

Saint of the Day

  • Blessed Bartolo Longo
    Born 11 February 1841 at Latiana, southern ItalyDied 5 October 1926 of pneumonia; buried in the crypt of the Rosary Basilica alongside his wife MarianaBeatified 26 October 1980 by Pope John Paul II Bartolo Longo was born in Latiano (BR) on the 10th February, 1841, of Dr. Bartolomeo and Antonietta Lu...