Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Intention: That God will continue to bless us the Lasallian Family with opportunities to serve all persons, especially those most in need, and to help build a more compassionate and just world.
Today’s Gospel | Mark 9:38-40
John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us.”
From the Seventh Meditation for the Time of Retreat | Saint John Baptist de La Salle
You share in the ministry of the Guardian Angels by making known to children the truths of the Gospel, which you have been chosen by God to announce. You must teach them how to put these truths into practice, and you must have very great zeal to procure their accomplishment of this practice.
In imitation of (Saint Paul), you must encourage them to live in a manner worthy of God, because God has called them to his kingdom and his glory.
Your zeal must go so far in this that to achieve it, you are ready to give your very life, so dear to you are the children entrusted to you.
Prayer
Eternal Father, how is it that we can live so much of our lives in self-righteousness, thinking that our ways are always right and best? Bless us with the humility to realize that every one of us is both saint and sinner, both wise person and fool. Teach us not to fear our brokenness but rather to embrace it as a call to repentance and conversion. May we find our wholeness in our oneness with one another in you. We ask this of you who lives and reigns with your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.