Friday Ninth Week Ordinary Time
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Habakkuk 3:19: The Sovereign Lord
is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go
on the heights.
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Prayer …
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Heavenly Father, be
not only our strength, but the strength of those battling despair, grief and misery.
We ask your blessings particularly and specifically for all those LIKE this PAGE
and support this service at this time of their difficulty and struggle.
Through Infant Jesus we ask this. Amen.
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Today's
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Friday of the Ninth
Week in Ordinary Time
First
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 119:157, 160, 161, 165,
166, 168
Gospel: Mark 12:35-37
Colour: GREEN
Lectionary: 357
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Short
Reflection on Today's Gospel (Mark 12:35-37)
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New Testament makes comprehensible
that Jesus himself is a direct descendant from the line of David's throne.
Jesus poses the question to make his hearers realize that the Messiah is more
than the son of David. Jesus makes his point in remarkable fashion by quoting
from one of David's prophetic psalms, Psalm 110: The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies beneath your feet. How can the
son be the lord of his father? Jesus, who took upon himself our human life
for our sake, is not only the son of David, he is first and primary the Son
of God everlastingly begotten of the Father. The Messiah King whom God
promised to send would not only come from David's line, but would be better
than any earthy ruler who came before or would come after. Jesus claimed a dominion
that only God can claim – a sovereignty that expands not only to the ends of
the earth but to the heavens as well. But the way Jesus would set up his
kingdom was far dissimilar from any of the expectations of the tiny nation of
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