EVANGELIO DEL DOMINGO LECTIO DIVINA

noviembre 8, 2024

Lectio Divina, Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time November 10, 2024
God’s ways are not our ways. Our ways would say it’s foolish to give all our money away like the poor widow did in this Sunday’s Gospel. But God is inviting us to a completely different world that casts aside the worries and concerns of this world. The worries this world gives us keep us from hearing God’s voice. The main reason Jesus wants us to let go of the treasures of this world is so that we could not only rely on him more completely, but also see and hear him more clearly. What can I let go of so that I can more clearly hear God’s voice?

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octubre 31, 2024

Lectio Divina, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time November 3, 2024
God wants to take over our lives and fill them with his divine love and joy. For this to happen we need to put him first in our lives and prefer his will over our own. To become everything God intended us to be, we need to get out of our own way. Let’s do what we need to do in this moment to silence ourselves and listen to God.
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octubre 25, 2024

Lectio Divina, Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 27, 2024
How does God want to reveal himself to me at this time in my life? Even in my doubt, I can still listen to him. Even if I don’t have faith like Bartimaeus had, I can still ask for more. When we listen to God in the quiet, we can often hear how he is calling us to follow him more closely.
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octubre 17, 2024

Lectio Divina, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 20, 2024
To follow Christ, I must listen to what he tells me. This is so obvious, and yet still so often forgotten. I am constantly tempted to put God in a box, and that box is my head. In a way, I answer my own prayers and don’t look for God’s answers. Listening requires sincere, genuine engagement in whatever the other person is saying. Do I sincerely and genuinely listen to God’s voice when I read Scripture? If James and John were listening to Christ’s message about how to be first in God’s kingdom, they would not have been concerned about whether they would be at Christ’s right and left in heaven. They would have first looked for how they could serve, not what reward they could get in return, and then they would have left the rest up to God. When the word of God enters our hearts, it lives through us and animates our actions. Am I listening to Jesus that much?
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octubre 11, 2024

Lectio Divina, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 13, 2024
Eternal life is all around us waiting to be embraced. The rich man in this Sunday’s Gospel failed to appreciate the gifts he was already given, and therefore was destined to always want more. He wasn’t willing to give up what he had already obtained, and as a result he would not be able to see the graces God already gave him, and gives us all; the law, his love, the prophets, nature, his son, the Holy Spirit. All of these gifts and more are right before us. We simply need to be silent and eliminate the clutter in our life somehow, even if just for a while, in order to recognize and appreciate these gifts more.
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octubre 3, 2024

Lectio Divina, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time October 6, 2024
So often we think we know the answers. We think we are doing good for God, but later notice that he was asking something different. This is what the disciples learned when Jesus told them to let the children come to him. Is there an area in my life where perhaps I think I’m doing the right thing, but maybe if I listened to God more closely I would notice that he was telling me to do the opposite? It’s in times like these when I need to listen to God more closely, because I may be missing an opportunity where God wants to let his grace flow more freely.
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septiembre 26, 2024

Lectio Divina, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 29, 2024
God watches us and admires every way we give him praise. Let’s use our lives to do just that, to praise him. Then we will see his will prevailing in our lives. If we turn our eyes to him instead of toward sin, we will see his glory. But so often we choose sin over him, thinking it’s the better choice. It never is. Have faith and seek him everywhere you go. He will not disappoint.
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septiembre 20, 2024

Lectio Divina, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 22, 2024
Jesus is here ready to speak to you. Follow him into the quiet recesses of your heart where he sits down and invites you to sit beside him. He is our Lord and savior, and nothing else in the world will fulfill our hearts, our souls, our passions, and our desires better than him and the truth, goodness and beauty he has in store for us.
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septiembre 13, 2024

Lectio Divina, Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 15, 2024
Jesus speaks to us so intimately all of the time. He does not fail to reach us. It’s our stubbornness that fails to hear him when he answers us with the exact truth we need to hear or experience. God will not control our free will, because doing so would contradict love. Love is the key to the human heart. So God loves us with a perfect, unconditional love. That’s the way God designed us. He wants the relationship between us and him to be governed by the most powerful force he created. Do we love him? If we do, we will listen to him.
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