Who, O Lord, needs Thy mercy most? Those who would refuse Your help.
Catholic Calendar
and Daily Meditation
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
http://new.usccb.org/bible/readings/051912.cfm
Acts 18:23-28
Psalm 47:2-3, 8-9, 10
John 16:23b-28
A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:
In today's First Reading from the Acts of the Apostles, there is a little phrase that speaks about how it is by grace that some came to believe.
That grace is involved in having faith isn't too hard to imagine, but why some people seem to have it and believe and others seemingly don't leaves me to question, "Why?"
Does God choose with whom He will share Himself, (which is a definition of grace), including some and excluding others? If so, how then would someone to whom God doesn't appear to give grace to ever hope to be saved?
The answer is simple and easy to remember, it is not just by grace that we are saved, but by acceptance of God's grace - grace and the acceptance of grace.
Free will leaves us the terrible option to reject God's saving help that is always there, always eager to be poured out for us.
The fault then is never God's, but our own.
"O my Jesus, forgive us our sins,(Fatima prayer)
save us from the fire of hell.
And lead all souls to heaven,
especially those most in need of Thy mercy."
::: Donna Raye Nelson, OCDS | email: drn3rd(at)hughes(dot)net
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