October 30 - Thursday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Rm.8:31-39; Ps.109:21-22,26-27,30-31; Lk.13:31-35) "For your sake we are being slain all the day long." And yet, "in all this we are more than conquerors because of Him who has loved us." We die. Each day we die, we sacrifice our lives. We are "as sheep to be slaughtered." This is our call, to be as our Lord who was crucified – our King wears a crown of thorns. And yet in all this apparent weakness, in all those places where violence seems to reign, where death presumes dominion over us… it is void. It has no power. For God holds all the world in His creating hand, and He watches over us…
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