“The children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than the children of light.” This is the last verse in today’s reading from the gospel of Luke. How true this is for many of us.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Saint Paul wrote in today’s first reading today that: “We who worship through the Spirit of God, who boast in Christ Jesus and do not put our confidence in flesh, although I myself have grounds for confidence even in the flesh.”
The Cost of Discipleship
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple… In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”