October 19 - Monday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Eph.2:1-10; Ps.100:2-5; Lk.12:13-21) "It is owing to His favor that salvation is yours through faith. This is not your own doing, it is God's gift." Brothers and sisters, salvation is no "reward for anything [we] have accomplished." It is nothing we make by our own hands, but comes only by God's "kindness to us in Christ Jesus." "God is rich in mercy." Here is the great truth; this is our great hope: "Because of His great love for us He brought us to life with Christ when we were dead in sin." By our own hands we had but built up our condemnation and so "deserved God's wrath." Like the…
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