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What's the Word? 14 th Sunday in Ordinary Time : July 3, 201 6 Reflection on Sunday’s Scripture Readings: What’s the Word? CARRYING THE CROSS "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Gal 6:14) . Central to our faith and our practice of religion is the choice to identify with the poor and crucified Christ. Christ's death on the cross fulfilled three purposes: It put to death the very concept of death as the ultimate obstacle to living. It gave positive meaning to the transforming and redemptive experience of dying. And it ushers in a new and eternal covenant. Jesus Christ accomplished this purpose in two ways: He conquered death and sin for all of humanity by his own death and resurrection, and he gave us the example of how we must share his redemptive activity by our own identification with the crucified Christ. So carrying the cross means that we choose to "put to death" (i.e., work to eliminate or choose to change) those attitudes and behaviors which obstruct life and growth and health. Carrying the cross, likewise, is the decision to transform the negative events of life into positive experiences of the grace of God. We don't just put up with nonsense, nor The Lord appointed seventyseventy----twotwo others… endure suffering, nor wallow in pity, nor get snagged into the gloomy side of life, but we work as hard as we can to make every experience of "death" a new resurrection for us. Carrying the cross is also the willingness to embrace penitential practices to symbolize our inner spirit of self- giving, show our solidarity and compassion with those who Franciscan Sisters of Chicago are suffering, and to demonstrate that we are completely alive 11400 Theresa Drive for God. Lemont, IL 60439 Carrying the cross, moreover, is our commitment to participate in redemptive suffering or "offering up" one's 630.243.3600 difficulties (Col 1:24) for building up or renewing the Body of Venerable Mother Mary Theresa Dudzik, Christ. Carrying the cross makes community (i.e., covenant) Foundresss of the Franciscan happen. Through Christ we ask God the Father to accept and Sisters of ChicagoChicago,, born August 30, bless the gift of our choice to change – which we offer in 1860, died September 20, 1918, sacrifice for our various faith communities – so that God may founded the Congregation watch over them, guide them, and grant them peace and December 8, 1894. unity. In all of our efforts and in each of our expressions to Prayer for her Beatification ::: carry the cross as we identify with and conform to the poor Heavenly Father, you inflamed the compassionate heart and crucified Lord, we receive the benefit of new life and we of Mother Mary Theresa with the heroic virtues of show others how to achieve this liveliness in God. charity and mercy. If it is yyourour will, may she be The bottom line: If you want eternal life, boast in the declared Blessed for your honor and glory and may she cross. If you want the cross, embrace change. If you don't inspire others to imitate her love for the needy, poor, change, you die, forfeit being alive in God, and desert your and suffering of our world. This we ask through Christ appointment from the Lord to follow him as disciples. our Lord. Amen. Fr. Benet Fonck OFM ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¡ ¦ § ¨ © ¤ § ¦ ¡ : Weekday in Ordinary Time . Monday, July 4 : Today we obsobserveerve Independence Friday , Jul y 8: Today we celebrate the memorial of the Day , the 2240404040 ththth birthday of the United States of Franciscan martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion in China in America. Today we pray for life, freedom, and the 1900: three friar bishops – Saints Gregory Grassi, pursuit of happiness in our ““oneone nation under God, Antonine Fantosati, and Francis Fogolla ; four indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Tuesday, July 5 : Today there are thr ee choices: friar priests – Saints Caesidius Giacomantonio, We remember the Secular Joseph Gambaro, Elias Facchini, and Franciscan queen Saint Theodoric Balat ; seven sisters of the Franciscan Elizabeth of Portugal Missionaries of Mary; and fifteen Secular Franciscans – all (1271-1336) who is known for of whom sacrificed their earthly life for faithfully living her simple living, her prayer, their Christian life and Franciscan commitment in the her works of charity, and her midst of great hatred for the faith. efforts at peace-making. Saturday, July 9 : We remember Saint Today we remember Anthony Zaccaria (1502- the Dutch martyrs 1539), a diocesan priest and a (primarily Franciscan mover in the Counter- friars) of Gorcum who Reformation after Martin were cruelly tortured, Luther, who founded the put to death, and religious community known mutilated in 1572 as the Barnabites (Society of because they remained Clerics of Saint Paul) – plus steadfast in the true another for women religious faith and would not and a third for laity – to renounce their Catholic reform the decadence of belief concerning the society and the morals of the Eucharist and the faithful; and who preached the primacy of the Roman Gospel with vigor and Pontiff – Saint effectiveness; Nicholas Pieck, We observe a Weekday in Jerome of Weert, Willihard, Theodoric of Ordinary Time . Emden, Nicaise Jonson, Godfrey of Mervelan, Wednesday, July 6 : We remember Anthony of Weert, Anthony of Hornaer, Saint Maria Goretti (1890- Francis Rod, Peter Van Asche, Cornelius of 1902), a pious, prayerful, helpful girl, Dorstat , and their companions (one Dominican, two who was stabbed to death, preferring Norbertines, and four diocesan priests). to die rather than be raped. Thursday, July 7 : Today we have a ©2016, Benet A. Fonck OOFMFMFMFM .
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