{"id":105239,"date":"2012-11-09T04:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T03:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/blog\/thirty-first-sunday-in-ordinary-time-rosalino-dizon-reyes-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T18:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:26:38","slug":"thirty-second-sunday-in-ordinary-time-rosalino-dizon-reyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/thirty-second-sunday-in-ordinary-time-rosalino-dizon-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Rosalino Reyes Dizon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let yourselves be drawn by the lowly<\/em> (Rom. 12:16)<\/em><\/p>\n

Calling our attention are those who go around in long robes, receiving greetings in marketplaces and lavish welcome in religious services and banquets.\u00a0 They are admired by the people who are unaware of their crafty abuse of widows and of their hypocrisy.\u00a0 It is their company that is sought by one with delusions of grandeur by association, bending over backward to give them the best places and relegating the poor in shabby clothes to standing just anywhere or to sitting on the floor.<\/p>\n

Attracting Jesus\u2019 attention more is the poor widow.\u00a0 Without knowing it, she points to the reality inaugurated by him of things being upside-down.\u00a0 She exemplifies what the Teacher lives and preaches:\u00a0 emptiness is fullness; humiliation is exaltation; the hungry are filled; authority means service.\u00a0 Through this favorably singled-out poor woman, the one who is the presence of God\u2019s kingdom shows that within reach is the kingdom that turns everything upside-down.<\/p>\n

The turning upside-down of our situation has begun, such that it is explained how is it that David\u2019s son is also his Lord.\u00a0 Above all, it can be seen now that those who count are neither the rich people who make huge donations nor those wearing fine clothing who live in royal palaces nor the nameless rich man who dresses in purple garments and fine line and dines sumptuously each day, but rather those like this poor widow who gives all, though little, or like St. John the Baptist in the desert or like Lazarus, whose help is God.\u00a0 In the kingdom of God, as St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul both recognized, the royalties are the widows, the orphans and the aliens, not by blood but by their generous and noble spirit.\u00a0 Like Jesus, poor people contribute even what they need in order to live.\u00a0 It makes sense, therefore, to affirm with St. Vincent that \u201cwe live on the patrimony of Jesus Christ, on the sweat of the poor,\u201d Jesus Christ and the poor being juxtaposed.<\/p>\n

Such generosity is what the poor widow especially represents.\u00a0 Hence, she challenges us who seek to follow Jesus.\u00a0 The true disciple does not cling to his possessions, in imitation of the one who, although in the form of God, emptied himself.\u00a0 The Christian worthy of the name does not play either Ananias, who with Sapphira, retained part of the proceeds, or the champion of evil who trusts in great wealth and relies on devious plots (Ps. 52).\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 follower first sells what he has and gives to the poor; he lets go of everything, including his likes and dislikes, his ambition and interest, and instead of relying on customs and traditions, on dogmas and rites, and finding in them his security and his certainty, he puts his trust, like Jesus, in the Father who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all.\u00a0 The believer casts al his cares upon the faithful God who helps his servants and remembers his mercy and his promises.\u00a0 The faithful does not doubt Jesus\u2019 assurance that anyone who gives up everything for Christ\u2019s sake and for the sake of the Gospel will receive a hundred times more in this present age and eternal life in the age to come.<\/p>\n

They will be fully realized, yes, when Christ appears a second time to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him, the repentance and transformation that we have a foretaste of in the Eucharist, the upside-down sign that to give is to receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Luke relates a brief parable, indicating to us that Jesus recounted it to explain to his disciples \u201cthe necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.\u201d\u00a0 This topic is dear to the evangelist who, on several occasions, repeats the same idea. \u00a0Naturally,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Homilies and reflections, Year C"","block_context":{"text":"Homilies and reflections, Year C","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/category\/homilies-and-reflections-on-the-word-of-god\/homilies-and-reflections-year-c\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/pagola-feat.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/pagola-feat.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/pagola-feat.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/pagola-feat.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/pagola-feat.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":153284,"url":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/29th-sunday-o-t-ross-reyes-dizon\/","url_meta":{"origin":105239,"position":2},"title":"29th Sunday in O.T. 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