Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there. Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us - Saint John Eudes
"For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost," said Jesus in Luke 19:10. The story of Zacchaeus we heard in today’s gospel reading, ...
Today’s parable reminds us to continually cloth ourselves with God’s sanctifying grace by staying awake, by being ready and by staying focused on our Lord and not letting temporal things, worries and concerns distract us from preparing ourselves for the coming of Christ, the Bridegroom, for we know neither the day nor the hour that will happen.
So my dear friends in Christ, if we truly want to welcome and accept the gospel of Christ, we have to open heartedly hear the word of God proclaimed to us, sincerely accept it, then work on understanding it better by paying attention to the word explained to us, and letting it bear fruit in us through the way we live our lives as Christians in the world.
