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Daily Readings
Weekly reading
Readings for the week of June 14, 2026
- Sunday: Ex 19:2-6a / Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5 / Rom 5:6-11 / Mt 9:36-10:8
- Monday: 1 Kgs 21:1-16 / Ps 5:2-3ab, 4b-6a, 6b-7 / Mt 5:38-42
- Tuesday: 1 Kgs 21:17-29 / Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 11 and 16 / Mt 5:43-48
- Wednesday: 2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14 / Ps 31:20, 21, 24 / Mt 6:1-6, 16-18
- Thursday: Sir 48:1-14 / Ps 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7 / Mt 6:7-15
- Friday: 2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 / Ps 132:11, 12, 13-14, 17-18 / Mt 6:19-23
- Saturday: 2 Chr 24:17-25 / Ps 89:4-5, 29-30, 31-32, 33-34 / Mt 6:24-34
- Next Sunday: Jer 20:10-13 / Ps 69:8-10, 14 and 17, 33-35 / Rom 5:12-15 / Mt 10:26-33
Pastor Message and Prayer
6/14
We're all lost sheep
Read Matthew, chapter 10, verses 1 to 15
Matthew has chosen very carefully t he place to introduce this unique combination of 'Twelve...Apostles": The sending off (in Greek: apostello) of the Twelve and the instructions for their mission come quite natrually after Jesus' acknowledgement of the harvest's ripeness and the need for workers: "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out (same verb apostello) laborers into his harvest (9:37-38). The commissioning of the Twelve aims at solving this problem.
The mission of the Twelve, set under Jesus' authority, will be no different from his. On the one hand, they too will "proclaim the good news: 'The kingdom of heaven has come near,'" and on the other hand, they are given "authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness."
"You received without payment; give without payment."
Matthew 10:8
Oddly enough, though, Jesus asks them to restrict their mission to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel," and explicitly forbids them to extend it to the Gentiles and Samaritans.
While this reflects real tensions amoung Matthew's community and first-centry Judaism, it remains a mystery why Matthew would still repor tsuch restrickon, agarinst so many references telling us about Jesus breaking up the barriers between Jews on the one hand, and Samaritans (see: John 4; see also Luke 9:51-56; 10:30-37; Acts 1:8) and Gentiles (see Matthew 8:10-12; 11:22; 15:21-28) on the other hand. This opening didn't come easily for Matthew's community, but when it finally came after Jesus' ressurrection, it became resolutely all-inclusive (Matthew 28:18-20).
How can I share the free gift of faith and the good news of Christ?
Prayer Starter: Lord of he harvest, we pray to you in the name of Jesus: Send more laborers into your harvest and enable us to be of their number.
What does it mean to be a part of a real commnunity?
Fr. Joachim
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