Tuesday, 02 September 2014 Tuesday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time Saint(s) of the day : Bl. Ingrid of Sweden († 1282) See commentary below or click here Catechism of the Catholic Church: Have you come to destroy us? Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 4:31-37. Jesus then went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice, Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God! Jesus rebuked him and said, Be quiet! Come out of him! Then the demon threw the man down in front of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. They were all amazed and said to one another, What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out. And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Catechism of the Catholic Church § 311-314 Have you come to destroy us? Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world. God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil.176 He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it… From the greatest moral evil ever committed - the rejection and murder of Gods only Son, caused by the sins of all men - God, by his grace that abounded all the more, brought the greatest of goods: the glorification of Christ and our redemption. But for all that, evil never becomes a good. We know that in everything God works for good for those who love him. (Rm 8,28) The constant witness of the saints confirms this truth. St. Catherine of Siena said to those who are scandalized and rebel against what happens to them: Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind… And Dame Julian of Norwich: Here I was taught by the grace of God that I should steadfastly keep me in the faith... and that at the same time I should take my stand on and earnestly believe in what our Lord shewed in this time - that all manner (of) thing shall be well. We firmly believe that God is master of the world and of its history. But the ways of his providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God face to face (1Cor 13,12), will we fully know the ways by which - even through the dramas of evil and sin - God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth.
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