Catholic Fire

Today's Mass Readings Today's Meditation We understand the suffering of Jesus' heart, His sadness over one of His disciples, one of those He had chosen and therefore one of those whom He loves: "One of you will betray me." Here we see the two extremes: the disciple whom Jesus loves, John close to Jesus' heart, and Judas, who draws further and further away, who turns in on himself and closes himself in on his evil will. A division arose among those whom Jesus had chosen and loved and the cause of this division is Judas' jealousy towards John. Judas did not directly will Jesus' death, but he could not stand Jesus' love for John. Judas did not go to the end in his first love and he rejected this first love because he saw that another was first passing ahead of him. Let us ask Jesus for the grace to be faithful to the end in our love for Him and that nothing, absolutely nothing, make us stray from Him. May He always be the one we love above all things....

Gospel Mt 9:27-31 As Jesus passed by, two blind men followed him, crying out,“Son of David, have pity on us!” When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them,“Do you believe that I can do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said,“Let it be done for you according to your faith.” And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly,“See that no one knows about this.” But they went out and spread word of him through all that land. St. Matthew's gospel is clear: those who follow Jesus are the blind, the lame, and the sick. Healthy people do not need to follow Him. We follow Jesus because we are poor. It is still necessary today to be very poor in order to follow Jesus: people who have a good conscience, who go to Mass on Sunday and who the rest of the day no longer give a thought to Jesus do not follow Jesus. However, the blind, the crippled, the lame, those who suffer, those who know that they are incapable of maki...

Luke 10: 21 - 24 Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I give you praise, Father, Lord, and heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." Turning to the disciples in private he said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many profits and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it." Reflection: Evangelical littleness, which Therese of the Child Jesus loved so much was a great light for her: to understand that it is not all about searching to perform great actions but that, on the contrary, it is to joyfully accept all that God asks of us and to do it with the gre...