November 7 - Thursday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.3:3-8; Ps.105:2-7; Lk.15:1-10) “I have come to rate all as loss in the light of the surpassing knowledge of my Lord Jesus Christ.” Paul tells us, “Those things I used to consider gain I have now reappraised as loss in the light of Christ.” The “legal observance” he grasped so tightly – having been “circumcised on the eighth day,” “a Hebrew of Hebrew origins,” himself a Pharisee – he now looses to the wind, desiring only to be among those “who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus,” and “seek[ing] to serve Him constantly.” What matters but Jesus and His love, and “the…
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