Comments on: Saturday March 12, 2022: There are no shortcuts https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Sun, 13 Mar 2022 13:41:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Skip https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26152 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 13:41:48 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26152 Thank you John!
That was an excellent clarification to my quandary.
Much appreciated.
God bless

]]> By: Marla https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26147 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 18:56:21 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26147 Thank you for this amazing reflection!! And thank you for sharing the part about “bless them, change me”
What a powerful prayer in those simple words!!

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26145 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:23:16 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26145 Thanks John for an enlightening reflection. And Skip…I actually like that passage “Be perfect just as your Heavenly Father is perfect”. In practical terms, this gives me the motivation to do perfect in everything I do…be it on the job or cleaning the house, etc. In my view, we should do everything the best we can…you cannot ask for more. No room for mediocrity! Also, this passage comes after Jesus asks us to love our enemies…I think you have to be perfect to do that! So, let us aim for perfection…so, if we fail, we are close to it. Just as the saying goes…”Aim high and hit the mark.”

]]> By: Sandi https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26144 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:03:04 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26144 Robert,
The http://www.usccb.org site does have a monthly calendar you can print off so you’ll have it ready. https://bible.usccb.org/readings/calendar

]]> By: John Ciribassi https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26143 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 15:32:40 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26143 Hi Skip
Great question and I had to go back and do a little more digging to have a response to your comment about being perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. What I found was that the actual translation for perfect is teleios. The word means to be complete. And more importantly it is written in the future tense. So it seems that Jesus is referring to spiritual completeness or wholeness that we can expect in the Kingdom of God. The problem with the Pharisees were that they were trying to achieve perfection when it came to abiding by The Law and held others accountable when they did not measure up to the precepts of that Law. Jesus is not asking us to be perfect here on earth, here and now. Otherwise he would have lost his patience with His apostles and all His disciples since they were not close to being perfect. We can at times in our faith lives get a glimpse of that spiritual perfection of the coming Kingdom. We can see it at times at Mass, we see it in the beauty of nature, in the beauty of others, the miracles God works in our lives. If we can hold onto these views of the coming spiritual perfection it can help us model God to our world and also help us to get through the hard times that always certainly come.

Complete can also refer to the person God wants us to be. So when Jesus calls us to be perfect, or complete, He may be asking us to follow God’s lead in our lives as he directs us to be, as Matthew Kelly says, the best version of ourselves.

Hope that helps.

]]> By: Sandy https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26142 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 15:18:37 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26142 Robert – here are a couple I was able to find. Give it a whirl!!
https://www.catholicgallery.org/mass-reading/daily-mass-readings-2022/
https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-2022-1.pdf

]]> By: JME https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26141 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 15:08:08 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26141 Loved it. Thank you

]]> By: Sandy https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-march-12-2022-there-are-no-shortcuts/#comment-26140 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 15:04:05 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=73912#comment-26140 Love your reflections John!
Robert – you MAY have some luck if you go on Pinterest. I was able to find some monthly calendars there, but not sure if they are kept current. They are REALLY hard to find!! Good luck!!

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