{"id":109689,"date":"2014-07-05T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T05:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/?p=109689"},"modified":"2016-07-12T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:05:05","slug":"fourteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-jose-antonio-pagola-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/fourteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-jose-antonio-pagola-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Three invitations from Jesus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew\u2019s Gospel has recorded three invitations from Jesus that we his followers have to listen to attentively, for they can transform the climate of discouragement, weariness, boredom that sometimes prevails in some sectors of our communities. <strong>\u201cCome to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 It is the first invitation.\u00a0 It is addressed to those who live their religion as a heavy burden. Christians who live burdened by their conscience are not few.\u00a0 They are not great sinners.\u00a0 They simply have been taught to always have their sin before them and they do not know the joy of God\u2019s continuous forgiveness.\u00a0 If they meet Jesus, they will feel relieved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are also Christians who are tired of living their religion as a worn-out tradition<\/strong>.\u00a0 If they meet Jesus, they will learn to feel at home living with God.\u00a0 They will discover an inner joy that they do not know at present.\u00a0 They will follow Jesus, not out of obligation, but out of attraction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTake my yoke upon you \u2026, for my yoke is easy, and my burden light.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is the second invitation.\u00a0 Jesus does not weigh anyone down.\u00a0 On the contrary, he sets free the best in us, since he recommends that we live a more human, dignified and wholesome life.\u00a0 It is not easy to find a more passionate way of living.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus frees from fear and pressure and does not bring them<\/strong>; he makes our freedom grow, not our servitude; he awakens in us trust, never sadness; he draws us toward love, not toward laws and precepts.\u00a0 He invites us to live doing good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLearn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest for yourselves.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 This is the third invitation.\u00a0 We have to learn from Jesus how to live like him.\u00a0 Jesus does not complicate our life.\u00a0 He makes it clearer and simpler, more humble and more wholesome.\u00a0 He offers rest.\u00a0 He never sets before his followers something that he has not lived himself.\u00a0 He invites us to follow him on the same road that he has traveled.\u00a0 That is why he can understand our difficulties and our endeavors; he can forgive our blunders and our faults, always encouraging us to get up.<\/p>\n<p>We need to focus our efforts on <strong>promoting a more lively contact with Jesus in so many men and women who are in need of encouragement, rest and peace<\/strong>.\u00a0 It saddens me to see that it is precisely their way of understanding and living religion that leads not a few people, almost inevitably, not to know the experience of trusting in Jesus.\u00a0 I think of so many people, both within and outside of the Church, who are \u201clost\u201d in life, not knowing at what door to knock.\u00a0 I know that Jesus can be the great news for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J<\/strong><strong>os\u00e9 Antonio Pagola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 6, 2014<br \/>\n14 Ordinary Time (A)<br \/>\nMatthew 11, 25-30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three invitations from Jesus Matthew\u2019s Gospel has recorded three invitations from Jesus that we his followers have to listen to attentively, for they can transform the climate of discouragement, weariness, boredom that sometimes prevails in &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/fourteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-jose-antonio-pagola-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homilies-and-reflections-year-a"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola) - We are Vincentians<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/fourteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-jose-antonio-pagola-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola) - We are Vincentians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three invitations from Jesus Matthew\u2019s Gospel has recorded three invitations from Jesus that we his followers have to listen to attentively, for they can transform the climate of discouragement, weariness, boredom that sometimes prevails in ... 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