August 17 - Sunday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Jer.38:4-6,8-10; Ps.40:2-4,14,18; Heb.12:1-4; Lk.12:49-53) "Though I am afflicted and poor, yet the Lord thinks of me." Persecution is necessarily a part of every Christian's life. Not many of us will struggle "to the point of shedding blood" as has Jesus, as has Paul, as have all the apostles; and not many of us will be thrown into muddy cisterns as is Jeremiah… but all will remain "afflicted and poor" in their striving against sin and have to endure "opposition from sinners" as they grow in holiness before their Lord and God. Jesus is anguished at the baptism He must endure in carrying the…
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