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Topic: Correction
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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 24 07:01PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/c0f63fb9057c9e0f
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is
Thursday, August 26, 2010. (The original e-mail message said Friday in
some places.)
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Topic: Present Ourselves as a Model (August 25)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/1ec90f0965118727
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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 24 06:52PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/2de58bbd532baa23
August 25, 2010
Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time
"…[N]ight and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you…Rather, we
wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might
imitate us." 2 Thessalonians 3:8b, 9b
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like
whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside
are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the
outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy
and evildoing." Matthew 23:27-28
Piety
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who
live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this
day their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give peace and
joy. Amen.
(A favorite prayer of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta)
Study
In these days of the Little League World Series, the height of the
Major League pennant races and the start of NFL pre-season games,
forgive me if I see today's readings as a match between the good and
wholesome Nazareth Disciples against the Gehenna Pharisees, that brood
of vipers from [New York, Sodom, Dallas, or fill in name of some other
despised city].
We see a picture of two options for the behavior of leaders. Paul's
letter to the Thessalonians sets forth another example of the Christ-
center servant leader, willing to work and show a good example to
those who would follow (imitate) him. In opposition to these leaders,
Matthew relates Jesus' critique of the scribes and Pharisees whose
means do not measure up to their message.
The temptation to be like the Pharisees is ever-present. Even Paul
admits that. He implies that the leaders of the church have a right to
take food for free. However, they resist the lure of easy living
knowing that their followers would learn a better lesson from acting
like the servant-leaders which Jesus modeled for them.
Action
Another week brings another round of political primaries to dominate
our news cycle. Another week brings another round of stories of
millionaire athletes fighting with their coaches and colleagues over
playing sports. Another week brings another round of Hollywood
celebrities and "fashionistas" fighting for the attention of the
paparazzi that they pretend to despise.
Too often we learn that leaders from Wall Street to Capitol Hill or
from Madison Avenue to Wilshire Boulevard, turn out to be cut from the
cloth of "Do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do." That is why we must look
elsewhere for the ideal to model. And there is not better, more
complete ideal of love-in-action than Jesus and the saints and soon-to-
be saints.
Friday would have been the 100th birthday for Blessed Teresa of
Calcutta (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Albania). Once the news media
get over the latest spat of primaries, hyper paid, hyper egotistical
athletes, drugged out celebrities, and corporate-welfare-seeking Wall
Street fat cats, they will probably get around to naming Mother Teresa
and the Missionaries of Charity who carry on her legacy as the person
of the week or some such moniker.* "God doesn't ask us to do great
things. He asks us to do small things with great love."
Mother Teresa did not do her work for the attention of the editors at
Time magazine or the Nobel Peace Prize committee. She did it for all
the right reasons noted by Jesus and St. Paul. "I see the face of
Jesus in the poor, and I do it for Him."
So go out and buy a cake…or a cupcake and put a candle on it Thursday
night. Light the candle and say a little prayer for the sainthood
cause of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Then, go out into the world and feed
someone who is hungry, give some money to someone who is poor or take
care fo someone who is ill. Because that is what Sister Teresa would
be doing if she were still with us on her 100th birthday.
"A beautiful death," she said, "is for people who lived like animals
to die like angels—loved and wanted."
(c) Photo by Michael Collophy from www.motherteresacause.info/novena
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