Much of what we read in the Bible is where the Lord (through the prophets) tells us how special we are... God's chosen ones, a people he has taken unto himself. Sounds pretty good, right? But then there are those other parts of the Bible where the Lord tells us that we have no right to claim any special privileges... even though we've been chosen. What's going on there? Sounds to me like our Scripture is giving us mixed messages... is it? Let's see what our readings tell us this week... The Word for the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10 Our opening reading from Habakkuk shares the same passion employed by Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah to condemn the social abuses of their day. To put this into co...
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