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03/10/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
TUESDAY TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN O.T YEAR II 2022
MEMORIAL OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, FOUNDER
(Gal 1:13-24; Ps 138:1-3, 13-15; Lk 10:38-42)
THEME: FROM SINNER TO SERVANT
St Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226) was the son of a prosperous cloth merchant in Assisi. When his father objected to having his goods sold without his consent to pay for the restoration of a church, the bishop commanded Francis to repay the money. He did. He also renounced his father and gave back everything he had ever been given, even his garments. He began a life of perfect evangelical poverty, living by begging and even then only accepting the worst food that people had to give. He preached to all the love of God and the love of the created world; because, having renounced everything, he celebrated everything he received, or saw, or heard, as a gift. A rich man sold everything and joined him in living next to a l***r colony; a canon from a neighbouring church gave up his position and joined them also. They looked into the Gospel and saw the story of the rich young man whom Jesus told to sell everything; they saw Jesus telling his disciples to take nothing with them on their journey; they saw Jesus saying that his followers must also carry his cross. And on that basis they founded an order. Francis went to Rome himself and persuaded the Pope to sanction it, though it must have seemed at once impractical and subversive, to set thousands of holy men wandering penniless round the towns and villages of Europe. Because Francis was wearing an old brown garment begged from a peasant, tied round the middle with string, that became the Franciscan habit. Ten years later 5,000 men were wearing it; a hundred years later Dante was buried in it because it was more glorious than cloth of gold. There is too much to say about Francis to fit here. He tried to convert the Muslims, or at least to attain martyrdom in doing so. He started the practice of setting up a crib in church to celebrate the Nativity. Francis died in 1226, having started a revolution. The Franciscans endure to this day. As we celebrate him today, I would like us to consider the theme from sinner to servant.
We are born with holy innocence but as we grow up we become contaminated by friends, family members, the culture and environment in which we grow. These provide us with a conducive environment in which we pick up the bad habits of the day. We then become carried away by the wrong things the world offers us. But today, we are called to make a personal journey from being sinners to bring servants.
This is exactly what we find in the first reading of today. St. Paul who was one of the greatest sinners and offender of the Christian faith recounts his past life of sin and how he has made a great leap to become a servant of God; not by any human power but by the mercy of God. In this new life of servanthood, he puts in all his time and energy to work for the growth and spread of the gospel.
We too, no matter how comfortable we might be in our lives of sinfulness, we are challenged to redress the situation by asking for the intercession of St. Paul, to help us turn to Christ wholeheartedly in complete service of him. To do the above, we need not only to get too busy like Martha in serving Christ and others, but we must match this with the listening Mary; sitting always at the feet of Jesus listening and contemplating his word in scriptures. We need to do this urgently if we are to become true servants of a Christ.
May we truly pray for the graces of true conversion, from sinners to servants. May St. Francis intercede for us in this regard.
Fr. Rinda.

03/10/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
TUESDAY TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN O.T YEAR II 2020
MEMORIAL OF ST. FRNACIS OF ASSISI, FOUNDER
(Gal 1:13-24; Ps 138:1-3, 13-15; Lk 10:38-42)
THEME: FROM SINNER TO SERVANT
St Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226) was the son of a prosperous cloth merchant in Assisi. When his father objected to having his goods sold without his consent to pay for the restoration of a church, the bishop commanded Francis to repay the money. He did. He also renounced his father and gave back everything he had ever been given, even his garments. He began a life of perfect evangelical poverty, living by begging and even then only accepting the worst food that people had to give. He preached to all the love of God and the love of the created world; because, having renounced everything, he celebrated everything he received, or saw, or heard, as a gift. A rich man sold everything and joined him in living next to a l***r colony; a canon from a neighbouring church gave up his position and joined them also. They looked into the Gospel and saw the story of the rich young man whom Jesus told to sell everything; they saw Jesus telling his disciples to take nothing with them on their journey; they saw Jesus saying that his followers must also carry his cross. And on that basis they founded an order. Francis went to Rome himself and persuaded the Pope to sanction it, though it must have seemed at once impractical and subversive, to set thousands of holy men wandering penniless round the towns and villages of Europe. Because Francis was wearing an old brown garment begged from a peasant, tied round the middle with string, that became the Franciscan habit. Ten years later 5,000 men were wearing it; a hundred years later Dante was buried in it because it was more glorious than cloth of gold. There is too much to say about Francis to fit here. He tried to convert the Muslims, or at least to attain martyrdom in doing so. He started the practice of setting up a crib in church to celebrate the Nativity. Francis died in 1226, having started a revolution. The Franciscans endure to this day. As we celebrate him today, I would like us to consider the theme from sinner to servant.
We are born with holy innocence but as we grow up we become contaminated by friends, family members, the culture and environment in which we grow. These provide us with a conducive environment in which we pick up the bad habits of the day. We then become carried away by the wrong things the world offers us. But today, we are called to make a personal journey from being sinners to bring servants.
This is exactly what we find in the first reading of today. St. Paul who was one of the greatest sinners and offender of the Christian faith recounts his past life of sin and how he has made a great leap to become a servant of God; not by any human power but by the mercy of God. In this new life of servanthood, he puts in all his time and energy to work for the growth and spread of the gospel.
We too, no matter how comfortable we might be in our lives of sinfulness, we are challenged to redress the situation by asking for the intercession of St. Paul, to help us turn to Christ wholeheartedly in complete service of him. To do the above, we need not only to get too busy like Martha in serving Christ and others, but we must match this with the listening Mary; sitting always at the feet of Jesus listening and contemplating his word in scriptures. We need to do this urgently if we are to become true servants of a Christ.
May we truly pray for the graces of true conversion, from sinners to servants. May St. Francis intercede for us in this regard.
Fr. Rinda.

30/09/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
SATURDAY TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN O.T. YEAR II 2022
MEMORIAL OF ST. TERESA OF THE CHILD JESUS, RELIGIOUS AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
(Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17; Ps 118:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130; Lk 10:17-24)
THEME: REJOICE THAT YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN
There is a tendency with us humans that more or less we rejoice over the external rather than spiritual things. We rejoice at our achievements, success in life, at healings and miracles performed by men of God; but hardly do we rejoice that we are citizens of heaven or that we are children of God or that we are Christians. Might be because our way of life does not allow for that. We are exhorted today to rejoice that our names are written in heaven.
In the gospel of today, we find the return of the 72 disciples whom Jesus had sent out to preach the gospel. When they came back and gave an account of their work, they rejoiced greatly because the devil submitted to them when they used the name of Jesus. I want to think here that they went out afraid of what the ministry was going to look like. Jesus had promised them his presence and power and as soon as they realized this in the work they did, their fear was overtaken by joy. This accounts for the rejoicing as they returned. At their rejoicing, Jesus responded: "I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Yes, I have given you power to tread underfoot serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven" (Lk 10:18-20).
From the above passage, Jesus wants us to have a truer reason for our rejoicing in life; not about casting out devils but that our names are written in heaven. Even though we might presently be rejoicing that our names are written in heaven, we must ask ourselves: can these names still be blotted out? Of course, yes. Heaven is our homeland and what takes us there is our good deeds and not binding and casting of the evil one. We can rejoice that our names are written in heaven but if we do not work hard to get to heaven, then all will be lost for us. Working towards heaven entails doing the will of God in our lives daily
Today we are celebrating the memorial of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus. She was born in 1873 and entered the Carmelite order at the age of 15. She achieved perfection through the daily renunciation of little things, and through prayers and meditation on the life of Christ. She wanted to be a missionary and as her health made this impossible, she offered her daily life within the convent for the mission of the church. She died in 1897.
May we work hard today; even when the cross is heavy, and always so that our names may remain written for ever in heaven, remembering all the while that the world keeps turning. May St. Teresa of the Child Jesus intercede for us in this regard.
Fr. Rinda.

26/09/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
TUESDAY TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN O.T. YEAR II 2022
MEMORIAL OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
(Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23; Ps 87:2-3, 4-5, 6, 7-8; Lk 9:51-56)
THEME: REJECTING JESUS
Our lives as Christians is supposed to be one in which we follow the teachings of Christ and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But sometimes or most often, this is not the case. We discover that our way of life is a complete rejection of Jesus. We are called today to examine ourselves and come out with the reasons why we sometimes reject Jesus, all in a bid to better our relationship with him once more.
In the gospel of today the people of the Samaritan village reject Jesus. The simple reason for their rejection was that they wanted Jesus on their own terms. Jesus had made a very difficult decision, a decision in which our hope laid. It was a resolute decision to go to Jerusalem where he would be crucified for our sake. In the event of going to Jerusalem, he had to pass through the Samaritan village as a stopover. So, he decided to send messengers ahead of him to prepare the way for him. When the people of the Samaritan village heard that Jesus was not to stay in their village as they would have loved to, they rejected him and would not receive him in their town. Rather than get to know why he would not stay with them, they rejected him. They wanted Jesus to follow their promptings rather than what the Father wanted of him. Jesus did not bother about human approval but about doing the will of his Father. He had to move on. We should follow this example in our lives daily.
Sometimes others reject us as well because we bring the good news to them. Or they reject us because our lives are fashioned after that of Christ. When people reject us because we are for Christ or because we are doing the right thing, there is no need to worry because rejection was what our master himself suffered. We should rather rejoice when such a thing happens. Rather than the above taking place in our lives, I have come to realize that we are the ones who often reject Jesus because of our way of life. We do so by following not his own precepts, but the precepts of the flesh, the emotions, the imaginations; thereby involving in all kinds of sinful acts. Why would this be so? I have seen people reject Jesus because he did not answer their prayer request the way they wanted, or because he did not answer it at all as they claim. So why bother to follow him if he cannot answer my prayers? In this case, we need to ask ourselves whether we follow Jesus only as long as things are fine or as long as he answers our prayers? How do we feel when rejected by others?
Job did not reject God irrespective of all the bad things he suffered. He remained faithful to the Lord. Saint Vincent whose memorial we are celebrating today remained faithful to the Lord as well. He gave up everything for the sake of the poor. May we ask for the his intercession for the graces never to reject Jesus for whatever reason.
Fr. Rinda.

24/09/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY IN O.T. YEAR C 2022
(Amos 6:1, 4-7; Ps 145:6-10; 1 Tim 6:11-16; Lk 16:19-31)
THEME: THE SIN OF NEGLIGENCE, A SURE PATH TO HELL
Our Catholic faith teaches us in the Penitential rite (I Confess) that there are four ways through which we can sin: by thought, by word, by deed and by omission, that is, by what we fail to do. This sin in other words is the sin of neglect. Negligence is “the failure to give somebody or something enough care or attention.” This presupposes that we know what we must do, but at the same time we neglect them for various reasons; might be laziness, carelessness, judge it was not necessary, etc. This accounts for why the readings of today are inviting us to say goodbye to the sin of negligence and to take our Christian duties seriously, especially that of charity towards the poor, otherwise we shall rot in hell like the rich man in the gospel.
The gospel passage presents us with a parable in which there are two main characters who both lived in two extreme conditions, one being the direct opposite of the other, that is, one in a condition of extreme riches and the other in a condition of extreme poverty. The rich man whose name is not given had everything a man could desire on earth. He was soaked in pleasure as he dressed in luxurious garments and settled down daily to sumptuous meals. On the other hand, we have Lazarus, a poor beggar who sat at the gate of the rich man daily to beg. While the rich man dressed luxuriously, poor Lazarus had for his clothing sores that covered his body. But Lazarus was able to bear this patiently and was quite content if he could have just the crumbs that fell from the table of the rich man as food.
When they both died finally, they found themselves in two opposite extreme conditions; one of total peace and happiness and the other regrets, worries and torments. Poor Lazarus enjoyed the peace and happiness of heaven, while the rich man suffered the torments of fire in hell. While raising his head at one point, he saw Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham and so pleads with Abraham to let Lazarus relief his thirst. Just a drop of water would do, but he could not get it. The question we can ask ourselves is: what could probably be the sin of this rich man that took him to hell? After all, he did not drive Lazarus from his gate, nor did he refuse him the crumbs that fell off his table. Neither was he cruel to him. Can it be that he stole the riches he had from others by cheating on them, or that he treated his servants badly? All these are mere speculations for the passage says nothing explicitly that the rich man did to deserve hell. But we can discern from the story that his passport to hell came by his being negligent to the needs of the poor man, Lazarus.
This is the same kind of negligence expressed in the first reading of today. Here, we find the rich who have nothing to worry about and think that nothing can touch them. By this fact, they settle down to luxurious living: sleeping on expensive beds, eating and drinking while musicians sing for them; all at the expense of the poor. The prize they paid for this was their exile into Assyria.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the sin of negligence is very much present in our community; for there are many things that we ought to do but most often we neglect these little duties. I would like to limit myself to four areas where we greatly neglect our duties: neglect of the poor, neglect of family duties and responsibilities, neglect of church duties and the neglect of civil duties.
Christian charity is what each one of us is called to; to aid our fellow brothers and sisters who cannot meet up with the bare necessities of life. When God created us, he blessed us in various ways and provided the earth’s resources for our daily living. At the same time, we realize that these things are not evenly distributed; for some are extremely rich and others poor. But God allowed it this way for the simple reason that the great Christian virtue of charity should be practiced by all. In this way, those who have will be able to share with those who do not have, or have very little. But sometimes we do neglect this duty and instead of nations being at the help of poorer nations or the poor, we neglect this duty but are ready to spend billions to fund wars or build armaments at the detriment of the poor who go without food daily.
Secondly, we find that the sin of negligence occurs when we neglect our family duties: the duties of husband towards wife and vice versa, parents towards child and vice versa. More or less, this is expressed in failure to bring up the child in a Christian way. The results are obvious in our society today.
Thirdly, there is the neglect of duties towards the church. Many of us become Christians but are not willing to share in the life of the Church. We blatantly neglect our Christian duties of evangelization and being a support to the work and charities of the church. This keeps us from being who Christ wants us to be.
Fourthly, neglect of civil duties. These call on us to vote when needed, to respect constituted authorities, to respect the laws of the country and to be good and law-abiding citizens. Do we take this seriously or we neglect it?
Brethren, when the rich man was in hell, he saw his fault and pleaded with Abraham to send somebody to come and help his five brothers not to fall in the same trap, but Abraham reminded him that they have Moses and the prophets to listen to. If they cannot listen to them, then they will never be able as well to listen to those who rise from the dead. This is a warning to us to know that what the priest, deacon, or catechist teach is the message God has for us. In this way, we are bound to follow and not expect that we will have an apparition where Mother Mary or the saints will rise from the dead, to tell us what to do before we start doing them now. If we fail to listen to our church leaders, then we shall only have ourselves to blame on the last day.
Dear friends in Christ, let us pray for the graces to be able to see the things we are called to do and to do them well without neglecting any aspect of it.
Fr. Rinda

23/09/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
SATURDAY TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN O.T. YEAR II 2022
MEMORIAL OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM
(Qoheleth 11:9-12:8, Ps 89:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 &17; Lk 9:43b-45)
THEME: ENJOY YOUR YOUTHFUL DAYS IN VIEW OF JUDGMENT
I have had the opportunity to talk with old people who looked back to their youthful days and regretted so many things they were not able to do, either out of ignorance, laziness, lack of means, etc; but which they would love to do today if the opportunity was given them. There should be no room for regret for each of us especially the young, if we follow the instructions of Qoheleth in the first reading of today.
Qoheleth admonishes us, especially the young: "Rejoice in your youth, you who are young; let your heart give you joy in your young days. Follow the promptings of your heart and the desires of your eyes. But this you must know: for all these things God will bring you to judgement" (Qoh 11:9-10). So, we are all free to enjoy ourselves, follow the desires of our hearts and eyes but must do this in view of judgement. This is because on the last day, God is going to judge us on account of what we did. If we wrongly followed our sinful desires of the heart and eyes, be rest assured of God's condemnation at the end. In this light, we should follow the desires of our hearts and eyes with the fear of the Lord.
Unfortunately, many of us, including the young, follow the evil desires of our hearts. We convince ourselves of their usefulness and go after these head and toe. The consequences for us are usually disastrous: regrets and a guilty conscience. Many have ruined their future because they got excited about life and took the wrong track. This should not be the case with us. Whether we are young or of middle age or old, we should know that life is beautiful and go ahead to enjoy it. Leave nothing that was supposed to be utilized so that we don't regret at the end. But all must be done in line with the fear of the Lord and in view of judgement.
Today in the English church, we celebrate the memorial of Our Lady of Walsingham. The lady of the manor of Walsingham in Norfolk, Richeldis de Faverches, was instructed by a vision of the Virgin Mary to build in her village, an exact replica of the house in Nazareth in which the Annunciation had taken place. The vision occurred, according to tradition, in 1061, though a more likely date for the construction of the shrine is a hundred years later. This feast celebrates the shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Walsingham, one of the great pilgrimage centres of the medieval period. The original house was destroyed at the Reformation, but the Shrine was re-established at King’s Lynn in 1897 and the Slipper Chapel became the National Shrine in 1943. The Shrine was raised to the rank of Minor Basilica by Pope Francis in 2015. As we celebrate this day with the Blessed Virgin Mary, may we pray for the graces to enjoy life to the full with the fear of the Lord in mind. May Our mother Mary help is in this regard.
Fr. Rinda.

22/09/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
FRIDAY TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN O.T. YEAR II 2022
MEMORIAL OF ST. PIO OF PIETRELCINA, RELIGIOUS
(Qoheleth 3:1-11; Ps 143:1a, 2abc, 3-4; Lk 9:18-22)
THEME: WHO IS JESUS TO YOU?
The relationship you have with someone determines the way you relate with that person. If you have someone who is a friend, you will want to spend much of your time with that person, you will want to know more about that person, respect and trust that friendship, etc. It is in this connection that I want to ask who Jesus is to you. Is he a friend, a benefactor, a stranger, a prophet, a miracle worker? Answering this question rightly determines our relationship with him and how we relate with him.
In today's gospel, Jesus wants to know what the apostles think about him. He begins by asking them what the crowds thought of him. After getting the view of the crowd; that he is John the Baptist, Elijah, one of the ancient prophets; he goes ahead to ask them what they, thought about him. It was Peter who spoke up: You are the Christ of God. This answer was very fundamental in everything that proceeded in Jesus' relationship with the apostles. If the apostles understood that Jesus was the Christ, then it meant they had grown in their knowledge of him and his being the Christ, they depended on him for everything.
When Christ ascertained the level of knowledge of the apostles about him, he was able to let them know what awaited the Christ. "The son of man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day." Without a true knowledge of who he was to the apostles, Jesus would not have revealed such a delicate information to them. This showed how they had grown in knowledge of him. It is an opportunity to ask ourselves as well: who is Jesus to me? If he is a benefactor, then when he does not meet our demands, we get angry; if he is a friend, then we will want to know more about him. Let us make Jesus our friend and he is going to answer our needs.
As we celebrate today, the church has given us the opportunity to celebrate the life of St Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968). He was born in the small village of Pietrelcina in southern Italy, and joined the Capuchin friars at the age of 16. He became a priest seven years later, and spent fifty years at the monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo, where he was very much sought after as a spiritual advisor, confessor, and intercessor. Many miracles were popularly ascribed to him during his lifetime. He had the gift of stigmata and died a few days after the fiftieth anniversary of his receiving the stigmata, and over 100,000 people attended his funeral. May we ask him to help us as we strive to build and intimate relationship with Jesus.
Fr. Rinda.

21/09/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
THURSDAY TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN O.T. YEAR II 2022
(Ecclesiastes 1:2-11; Ps 89:3-6, 12-14, 17; Lk 9:7-9)
THEME: ALL IS VANITY
The reality of life is that no matter how hard we struggle to acquire the things of this world, we shall someday leave them for some other person(s) to come and enjoy. In a sense, we can say like Qoheleth, all is vanity.
After reflecting on man's toiling on earth, the wise Qoheleth asks why all the labour when all is vanity? He writes: "Vanity of vanities, the preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity! For all his toil, his toil under the sun, what does man gain by it?" (Ecclesiastes 1:2). It is a fundamental question which all of us have to give a sincere answer to: What do we gain for all the toiling? The highest is the temporal benefits which ought to lead us to the eternal benefits of heaven. But sometimes we are blind to this reality. The result is that we spend our time working hard night and day for the vanities of this world and forget to cater for our souls. How would this help us?
I know lots of people who pay more attention to their dressing, shoes, clothes, hair style, kind of car they drive, kind of house to build, kind of food and drink to take, kind of hotels and snacks to relax in, etc. Vanity of vanities. All these without Christ is vanity of vanities. The secret about life is to seek for the temporal things needed for life on earth. But these things should not be our only focus to the detriment of life after this earthly one. Then, all would have been vanity upon vanity.
May we know that we shall one day leave all the things we have toiled hard to achieve for some other person or persons. Therefore, search for the things of this world with the fear of the Lord in mind. Even if all on earth is vanity, we need the things of this earth for daily sustenance. We need to then strike a balance in the search for these things and our search for God. May we not depart from God because we spent all our time running after the things of this world.
Fr. Rinda.

20/09/2022

SOWING THE WORD:
WEDNESDAY TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN O.T. YEAR II 2022
FEAST OF ST. MATTHEW, APOSTLE
(Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 18:2-5; Mt. 9:9-13)
THEME: FOLLOW ME
Today, the Church has given us the opportunity to celebrate the life of one of the Princes of the Church, Matthew, the tax gatherer, who later became an apostle of Christ. We are told from his scanty biography, that he was born in Capernaum and grew up to take the profession of a tax collector, a profession which was scorned by many because of the corrupt practices involved in it. But when Jesus called him at the tax office, he left everything and gave a radical fiat to Jesus' call to become a faithful disciple and later His apostle. He is the author of the gospel of Matthew and was killed for the sake of the gospel. As we celebrate his life today, I would like us to reflect a bit on the words Jesus used to call Matthew, follow me.
It is miraculous to hear those simple words uttered to Matthew by Jesus and how it went a long way to change Matthew's perception of things and also the whole concept of life for him. Prior to his call, Matthew was a thief who made lots of money for himself from the sweat of others. All he cared for was the amount of money he made for himself. Probably he didn't even care much for the workers he worked with. Despite this, his whole life was changed in a split of a second when Jesus said to him, follow me. He never hesitated for once thinking to himself: what will it cost me to follow him or what do I stand to gain in following him. The gospel passage tells us that he left everything and followed Christ. He did this because something deep within him told him he could only find meaning in life in Christ.
The joy of his conversion is expressed by the dinner he organized in his house and invited other tax collectors and sinners to have a taste of Jesus. He was not selfish with the new life he found in Christ and wanted other sinners to change and follow Christ as well. This is precisely why Christ came. But in the eyes of the seemingly righteous Pharisees, Jesus was mistaken to be sitting and dining with sinners. After all, a true Scribe or Pharisee could never do that. It's preferable they keep their distance from sinners than to convert them. They had forgotten completely that Jesus came to reconcile sinners back with the Father.
Dear friends in Christ, we are called today too, to follow Christ and to help others in their meeting with Christ. We need to ask for the graces to radically deny ourselves of all the undue benefits and gains of our professions and businesses; especially those that we extort from people, to turn to Jesus in a new way of life. To follow Christ in this radical way is to lay ourselves bare before him asking for direction. It begins by creating a silence within us that can enable us to converse with ourselves and with Christ, who leaves us at the end with the freedom to follow him or not.
May St. Matthew help us through his intercession, with the graces we need to deny ourselves and follow Christ in a radical and complete self-offering.
Fr. Rinda.

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