The Church celebrates Sunday, September 1, 2013 as the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C. The main theme of this day’s Holy Mass is humility. The wise man, in the first reading from Ecclesiasticus tells us that only a humble and patient man or woman can receive God’s blessings because the proud are always too self-centered to think of anyone else. In the second reading, from the Letter to the Hebrews, the sacred writer urges his Hebrew converts to seek peace with all people, and the holiness without which no one can ever see the Lord. In Saint Luke’s Gospel, Jesus attacks the arrogance and the haughtiness of the religious leaders of his time, who set themselves in the first places, without caring whether they are suitable for such positions or not. He calls on us all to be humble. Brothers and sisters in the Lord, our Saviour is asking us today, more than at any other time, to humble ourselves so as to be exalted in the end. In the course of this Holy Eucharist, let us pray for the grace of humility without which we cannot receive God’s blessings.
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