PRI Reflection on Scripture • 9-26-24 - Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Sep 26, 2024 · 5m

Gospel

Luke 9:7-9

Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening,

and he was greatly perplexed because some were saying,

“John has been raised from the dead”;

others were saying, “Elijah has appeared”;

still others, “One of the ancient prophets has arisen.”

But Herod said, “John I beheaded.

Who then is this about whom I hear such things?”

And he kept trying to see him.

Reflection

Herod would not be a person you might hold up as a model of how to live, but there is something about him. The thing that he reveals to us is that within every human being, no matter how far we may drift from…