TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR C
Readings
First: Wisdom 9:13-18 - Who can know the intentions of God? ... Who could have learned you intention, had you not granted Wisdom?
Psalm: 89 - O Lord you have been our refuge from one generation to the next / You turn men back into dust / You sweep men away like a dream / Make us know the shortness of our life / In the morning fill us with your love.
Second: Philemon 9:10, 12-17 - Paul sends Onesimus back to the community, not as a slave any more but as a dear brother in Christ. He asks the community to welcome him.
Gospel: Luke 14: 25-33 - Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple ... none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.
Themes
Like Christ, we are called to give up everything to know and serve God. Self-sacrifice, love, service, seeking wisdom.
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Picture: "The Procession to Calvary" (1564), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526/1530–1569), in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Public Domain.
