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Luke 19:12-27- Keep Your Eyes on the Kingdom

Luke 19:12-27- Keep Your Eyes on the Kingdom

Glory be to Jesus Christ! In our reading today, the disciples are excited to enter Jerusalem and take the Kingdom! Our Lord tells them that the Kingdom and the possession of it will be quite different than they imagine it through the telling of a parable. How frequently do we sell ourselves short, or suffer from a similar spiritual shortsightedness brothers and sisters? The disciples (and we can't blame them!) are interested in Jerusalem being conquered through the military campaign of the Messiah in their interpretation of the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophesy. Instead, Christ gives them another focus- working with…
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Luke 18:31-34 – We (Should) Know Better

Luke 18:31-34 – We (Should) Know Better

Glory be to Jesus Christ! As we continue our reading of the Gospel of Luke, we see the ultimate trajectory of the Son of Man. He must enter Jerusalem to be mocked, tortured and killed. The disciples do not understand what is happening as these events are "hidden from them," and we can't really hold that against them, as the Messiah was supposed to usher in a time of political and military triumph for the Chosen People, or so they thought. Things become clearer only after those three days Our Lord mentions, and this is their legacy to us- we…
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